Research Guides: Find Book Reviews: Find Book Reviews

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The library's OneSearch is great for finding book reviews, but you need to activate Book Reviews on the results list (the default search does not include reviews). Choose see all results, then you will see the filter options:

Reviews of Recently-published Books

Academic Search Premier
Limit to review on the left-hand side of the screen.
ProQuest Central
General reference database for over 175 subjects from magazines, journals and newspapers, including peer-reviewed and scholarly works.
MasterFile Premier
General reference magazines and publications covering a wide-range of subject areas including business, health, education, general science and multicultural issues. Includes peer-reviewed publications.
Literature Resource Center
Search for the author or book title, then choose the Reviews & News tab.
Project Muse
Good place for reviews of scholarly books.

Google Search
You can get to a lot of newspapers and literary magazines online. If you hit a pay wall, move to the library databases.

Reviews of Older Books (published before 1990)

JSTOR
Great for scholarly book reviews. Do an advanced search and limit to "Reviews."
Times Literary Supplement (TLS) Historical Archive, 1902-2014
Full-text access to every page of the TLS with book reviews, film reviews, play reviews and more. TLS offers book reviews for fiction and nonfiction, poetry, and covers film reviews, plays reviews and reviews of exhibitions, opera and theatre. It contains topical essays and criticism in the areas of science and medicine; art and architecture; history, music and religion; politics, economics and philosophy; exploration and sport; as well as engineering and town planning.

ProQuest Search
This specialized search includes American Periodicals (17400-1940), a number of major newspapers, British Periodicals 1681 - 1937), and some academic journals in the social sciences.

Book Review Digest Retrospective
Citations of over 1.5 million book reviews from over 500 magazines and newspapers. Most citations include an excerpt of the review and descriptions of the books under review. Links to full-text reviews from JSTOR and other providers.
Readers' Guide Retrospective
Comprehensive index of popular and general-interest periodicals in the 20th century America. Directs you to over 3 million articles from 1890 to 1982. Links to full text from JSTOR and other providers.
Humanities & Social Sciences Retrospective
Good for reviews of scholarly books. Limit the "Document Type" to "Book Review"
News & Newspapers
Reviews from major papers such as The New York Times. Good for reviews of popular, non-scholarly books.
Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier covers the expansive academic disciplines offered in colleges and universities. It provides comprehensive content, including PDF backfiles to 1975 for many journals and searchable cited references for more than 1,000 titles.

Reviews of subject-specific books

If you don't see your subject or discipline in the list below, try Academic Search Complete--it is usually a great place to start.

Art & Architecture Complete
An advanced search allows you to limit to book reviews.
Business Source Premier
An advanced search allows you to limit to book reviews.
PsycInfo
Comprehensive, international index to the literature of psychology: journals, dissertations, book chapters, and more. Includes abstracts and links to available full-text articles.
SocINDEX with Full Text
Useful for sociology, social work, and related fields. Add the phrase “book review” to your keyword search.

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NoveList Plus
NoveList Plus is a comprehensive readers' advisory resource for fiction and nonfiction. With an intuitive interface and extensive proprietary content, NoveList Plus answers the question: What should I read next? Includes many book reviews.

goodreads
Easy to browse categories. If you set up an account, you can see what your friends (or librarians) are reading.

Finding Reviews of Recently-published Books

Use this quick search to search within a variety of review sources. TIP: search for the author's name, the book to be reviewed, then limit to "reviews" after you search.

Look for reviews with substance. If you can find one that is a page or longer, it probably gives you a more in-depth reading and analysis than the short ones from Publisher's Weekly.

US Newsstream (formerly ProQuest Newstand)
News content from many national and international newspapers, newswires and selected news magazines.
Project Muse
Provides online access to the full text of over 500 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.

Google Search

Literary Sources
A good source for reviews of contemporary writers.

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