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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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.
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.
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.
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.
