Book Reviews
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Book Reviews
Book reviews are critical articles or essays in which reviewers evaluate recently published books. Unlike other kinds of critical studies of books and authors, book reviews generally appear within a year or two of a book's publication. To locate a review of a particular book, you will need to know the book's title, author, and approximate year of publication. This information may be available from the Five College Library Catalogs. For assistance finding additional information on a book or author, consult the Library's Finding Journal Articles page.
Current Book Reviews from selected sources
- Guardian Unlimited Books
- London Review of Books
- All Africa: Books and Book Reviews
- Washington Post Book Reviews
- New York Review of Books and Archive (1963 --)
- New York Times Book Review
General Sources
Academic Search Premier Search for the name
of the book in default fields, and add book revew as "Document Type".
Academic OneFile Search for the title of the book
Lexis-Nexis
Academic: Book Reviews
Ethnic
News Watch In "Type of Article" select BOOK REVIEW
Gender
Watch In "Type of Article" select BOOK REVIEW
Humanities and Social Sciences
America: History & Life or Historical Abstracts In "Document Type" select Book Reviews
Arts and Humanities Search Limit "Article Type Phrase" to Book Review
Contemporary Literary Criticism Select "Title Search" and search for title keywords
Econlit with full-text Run a preliminary search for title keywords than limit "Publication Types" to Book Reviews
New York Review of Books Online Archive (1963-- )
Sciences
E-STREAMS Electronic Reviews of Science & Technology References covering Engineering, Agriculture, Medicine and Sciences
BOOKNews New books in Science, Technology and Medicine
PsycInfo Limit "Document Type" to Review-Book
ScienceDirect Limit by document type Book Review
Earlier Reviews
For reviews of older books, you may need to use the following paper resources in the Reference Area
Book Review Index : a Master Cumulation, 1965-1992 AC/Reference Z1035.A1 B62 1985
Book Review Digest (1905-1999) AC/Reference Z1219 .C95
Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals, 1886-1974 AC/Reference Z1035.A1 C64
Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Humanities Journals, 1802-1974 AC/Reference Z6265 .C65 1982
Index to Book Reviews in the Humanities (1960-1990) AC/Reference Z1035.A1 I63
New York Review of Books Online Archive (1963 --)
Additional Book Review Resources on the Web
Reviews of popular and academic books can also be
found at the following web sites:
H-Net reviews in
the Humanities and Social Sciences
Choice: Current
reviews for Academic Libraries
Publisher's Weekly
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