Book Review Resources
Book reviews constitute the very first criticism of a literary work. This page contains references to print and electronic book review indexes and digests as well as full-text collections of reviews. These resources are both general and subject-specific and include some retrospective material. For assistance locating or using any of these resources, or if you need further help with literary research, e-mail Mike Russo.
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No Tags Selected A multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 6,100 full-text periodicals, including more than 5,100 peer-reviewed journals. To search the database for a book review, just type in the title of the book and choose "book review" from the "document type" menu.
Call number: Z3501 .E35 (main stacks)
America, history and life. Part B, Index to book reviews
1964-present available online through Dialog. To search using Dialog see the Middleton Library Reference Desk (225) 578-8875.
American literary and drama reviews : an index to late 19th century periodicals
Call number: PN2256 .M37 1984
An Index to book reviews in the humanities
Z1035 .A1 I63 V.1(1960)-V.31(1990) Middleton Reference Stacks
An annual print index of summaries of book reviews. Primary indexing is by author and title in one alphabetically continuous index; there is also a separate subject index. Searching is mainly by title or author. Each annual volume must be searched separately, so you will also need to know the year your book was published.
An annual print index of book reviews. Indexing is by author and title in separate author and title indexes. The series periodically cumulates the indexing of several years into one volume, but you still have to know about when your book was published. Our holdings of this series start with 1965.
Book Review Index to Social Science Periodicals
Call number: Z 1035 A1 B63 Middleton Reference Stacks (1964-1974)
Call number: Z1037 .A1 C475 (Juvenile Reference- Education Resource Center)
Choice Reviews in Women's Studies, 1990-96
MacLam, Helen (ed.) HQ 1180 C56 1996 Middleton Stacks
United States Civil War Center E 461 C46 (Middleton Stacks 1999-) (Special Collections 1999-)
1999 through the present is available through the publisher's website
Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Humanities Journals, 1802-1974
AI3 C652 Middleton Reference Stacks
Combined retrospective index to book reviews in scholarly journals, 1886-1974
Z 1035 A1 C6 Middleton Reference Stacks
Call number: NA2599.9 .D47 Middleton (main stacks)
Index to book reviews in England, 1749-1774
Forster, Antonia. Z 1035 A1 F67 1989 Middleton Stacks
Index to book reviews in England, 1775-1800
Forster, Antonia. Z 1035 A1 F675 1997 Middleton Stacks
Index to Book Reviews in Historical Periodicals, 1972-1977
Brewster, John W. Z 6205 B73 Middleton Reference Stacks
Index to Book Reviews in the Sciences (1980-1981)
Institute for Scientific Information Z 7401 I52 Middleton Reference Stacks
Index to Southeast Asian Journals, 1960-1974: a Guide to Articles, Book Reviews, and Composite Works
Johnson, Donald Clay. Z 3221 J64 Middleton Stacks
Johnson, Donald Clay. Z 3221 J643 1982 Middleton Stacks
Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen (International bibliography of book reviews)
Z 5051 I64 Compact Shelving (ask at Middleton Circulation Desk)
An electronic full-text database, accessible from off campus. It is a general interest database, covering many different subject areas. Indexes numerous newspapers, including The New York Times, which carry book reviews. Switch to "Power Search" and use "Natural Language" to execute a standard keyword search. Include the phrase "book review" in your search, as in book review and the green mile. Under name, you can include a publication such as The New York Times. Use "Terms and Connectors" to exceute a Boolean search. This setting also allows you to specify a specific date or date range.
Library and information science annual (1987-1988, 1998-1999)
Middleton Stacks: Z671 .L7166
LSU Libraries -- Ready Reference Book Reviews
This page, maintained by the LSU Libraries' Reference Department, contains links to online book review resources.
Z 1219 M33 Middleton Reference Stacks
Magill's literary annual. History and biography
D1 M27 Middleton Reference Stacks
National Library Service cumulative book review index, 1905-1974
Z 1035 A1 N3 Middleton Reference Stacks
Palmer's Full Text Online 1785 - 1870
A combination electronic index and full-text database, in PDF form, of The Times of London. Coverage spans the years 1790 to 1905. Searching is by keyword. Available off campus. To find book reviews, include the word "reviews" in your search string along with either the book's title or author. For example: reviews and on the origin of species or reviews and charles darwin. (The search engine is not very discriminating and will produce a large amount of irrelevant results. Therefore, you should limit your date range as much as possible and leave the sorting option set to "relevance".)
Project Muse provides online, world wide, institutional subscription access to the full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics.
Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature
The Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature is a print index of mostly popular periodical literature. This series, in print, extends back to 1890. Indexing is primarily by author and subject in one continuous alphabet. Beginning with the 1976-77 cumulation, book reviews are gathered in a separate section at the end of each annual volume; this section is then indexed by author or by title, when the author is unknown. The LSU Libraries' print subscription ended in February 2008; holdings range from 1900 to 2008, with some volumes missing.
Hughes, Liz Rank. BS 651 R48 1992 Middleton Stacks
Science fiction & fantasy book review annual
Collins, Robert A. and Robert Latham. PN 3433.5 S32 Middleton Stacks
Science fiction and fantasy book review index : SFFBRI (1984-1989)
Z 5917 S36 S19 Middleton Reference Stacks
Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Review Index: SFFBRI
Hall, Hal W. Bryan, TX: SFBRI, 1985- . CALL NUMBER: Z 5917 S36 S19 (Reference) SFFBRI continues Science Fiction Book Review Index. This annual indexes most commercial SF and Fantasy magazines, some amateur publications (fanzines), and a number of library-oriented and general magazines (only when they contain SF and Fantasy Book Reviews). Entries are by Author, and there is a Title index that correlates titles to their respective authors. LSU Libraries have v.5(1974)-v.17(1986) and v.19(1988)-v.20(1989).
The history of Sub-Saharan Africa : a select bibliography of books and reviews, 1945-1975
Matello, William E. Z 3508 H5 M37 Middleton Stacks
Available from 1983-2006 in JSTOR.
PS 147 W65 Middleton Stacks, Oversize Shelving (1983-1998)
TLS Centenary Archive (Times Literary Supplement)
An electronic, full-text database in PDF format, covering the years 1902 to 1990. It is accessible off campus. To find book reviews, in the article search screen, type the name of the book in the "Book or Article Title" blank; in the "Item description" blank, select "Book review" from the drop-down menu and click "Search." You can view a facsimile of the Times Literary Supplement page where your review was printed.
An electronic, bibliographic database of scholarly periodicals. It contains the following major citation indexes: Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and the Social Science Citation Index. Coverage extends back to 1970 for everything except the Arts and Humanities Citation Index which goes back to 1975. It is accessible off campus. Searching is primarily by keywords. To find book reviews, click on "Full Search", choose the citation indexes you wish to search in, and then click on "General Search". From there use the phrase "book review" along with either the title or author of the book in the "Topic" search box. For example: book review and writing on the plaza: mediated literacy practices among scribes and clients in mexico city or book review and judy kalman.
