Book Reviews
Reviews are a way of knowing the content of books, but there are additional advantages to reading them. Reviews often reveal the viewpoint of an author, the relative value of a work, and how a particular book compares to others written on the same subject. Scholarly journals are the best source for quality book reviews. The Library recommends using the following databases for review searches:
- ABI/INFORM Complete
- A great way to search for historical business information, this archive allows you to search some of the leading publications
for topics such as marketing, management, accounting, case studies, and much more. Coverage ranges from 1905 to 1985.
Select Article type » Book Review
- Alternative Press Index and Index Archive
- Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political and social change.
- America: History and Life
- Covers United States and Canadian history from prehistory to the present.
Advanced Search » Document Type » Book Review
- American Periodical Series Online
- Over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals.
- Book Review Digest Plus
- Book Review Digest Plus brings together the rich data of Book Review Digest, which includes descriptive summaries of books as well as excerpts of book reviews, with all the book review citations and full text of book reviews from eleven other H. W. Wilson indexes.
- Contemporary Women's Issues
- Provides full text access to global information on women. Journals, newsletters, research reports from non- profit groups, government and international agencies, along with fact sheets are easily accessed through CWI. Information on women in over 150 countries is compiled in a single collection bringing together such disciplines as sociology, psychology, health, education and human rights.
- EconLit
- Contains citations, with abstracts, to articles from more than 400 economics journals. In addition, subject indexing and abstracts of books and subject indexing of dissertation titles are included. Corresponding printed sources are: Journal of Economic Literature, Index of Economic Articles, and Cambridge University Press Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics.
- Elsevier Science Direct
- 1,100+ scholarly journals in engineering, science, and social science disciplines.
- H-Net Reviews
- H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences is an online scholarly review resource.
- Human Population & Natural Resource Management
- The database deals with issues arising from
the conflict between the ever-increasing population of the Earth and the
Earth's limited environmental and natural resources. Human Population & Natural
Resource Management explores human population and demography topics, as well as
societal issues involving natural resource management. Coverage includes
relevant papers, reports, books and reviews from standard peer-reviewed
scientific journals. To ensure comprehensive coverage, material from conference
proceedings and hard-to-find gray literature has also been summarized.
- Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
- The Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals is a multilingual index to articles and book reviews published worldwide.
- Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text
- Subject areas include administrative law, antitrust legislation, banking, constitutional law, domestic relations, environmental protection, estate planning, food, drug and cosmetic law, international law, labor law, landlord/tenant decisions, malpractice suits, minorities, multinational corporations, negligence, non-profit corporations, occupational health and safety, politics, probate, products liability, public law, real property, securities, tax law, and trade regulation. Full text coverage begins in 1994.
- General OneFile
- A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics.
- Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
- A Middle Ages and Renaissance bibliography of close to 500,000 records for articles, essays, books, and reviews.
- JSTOR
- Includes full-text articles from over 400 scholarly journals in education, humanities, mathematics, science, and social science
disciplines. Refine your search » Check REVIEWS
- Literature Online (LION)
- Provides access to more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama
and prose, 147 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and
reference resources. Criticism and Reference » All CRITICISM >> Check REVIEWS
- New York Times
- Use Historical New York Times
for searches older than three years. Select Article type » Book Review
- Periodicals Contents Index
- This database "reveals the contents of thousands of scholarly journals, published from the latter part of the eighteenth century
to the latter part of the twentieth century . . ." This database refers to JSTOR for full text.
Scope » Book Reviews Only
- Project Muse
- This database indexes approximately 250 journal titles and "covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual
and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others".
Select "Author Reviewed" or "Title Reviewed" from the drop-down menu.
- Readers' Guide (1890 - Present)
- Subjects include aeronautics, African-Americans, aging, astronomy, automobiles, biography, business, Canada, children,
computers, consumer education, current events, education, environment, fashion, film, fine arts, food, foreign affairs, health,
history, hobbies, home, journalism, leisure activities, medicine, music, news, nutrition, photography, politics, religion, science,
sports, and television. Full-text coverage begins in January 1994 for most titles. Advanced Search » Document type » Book Review
- RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
- RILM offers a broad international coverage base and it includes music related works from articles, books, bibliographies, dissertations, film & video to concert reviews and recording notes - provided the items are of scholarly interest. Subject areas include: historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, librarianship, performance practice and notation, theory and analysis, pedagogy, liturgy, dance, criticism, music therapy, and interdisciplinary studies on music and various other fields, including literature, dramatic arts, visual arts, acoustics, aesthetics, anthropology, sociology, linguistics and semiotics, mathematics, philosophy, physiology, psychology, and physics.
- Web of Science
- Three unique citation databases which allow searching cited references as well as traditional searches independently or in combination: the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
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