Research Guides: Find Book Reviews: Find Book Reviews

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NoveList Plus This link opens in a new window
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.

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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:

Find reviews of recently-published books

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Limit to review on the left-hand side of the screen.
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
Good for scholarly and popular reviews. Limit Document Type to Review.
US Newsstream (formerly ProQuest Newstand) This link opens in a new window
Good for scholarly and popular reviews. Limit Document Type to Review.
MasterFile Premier This link opens in a new window
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 This link opens in a new window
Search for the author or book title, then choose the Reviews & News tab.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
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.

Find reviews of books published before 1990

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Great for scholarly book reviews. Do an advanced search and limit to "Reviews."
Times Literary Supplement (TLS) Historical Archive, 1902-2014 This link opens in a new window
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.
Book Review Digest Retrospective This link opens in a new window
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 This link opens in a new window
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 This link opens in a new window
Good for reviews of scholarly books. Limit the "Document Type" to "Book Review"
News & Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Reviews from major papers such as The New York Times. Good for reviews of popular, non-scholarly books.
Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
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.

Find reviews of books in a specific discipline/subject

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 This link opens in a new window
An advanced search allows you to limit to book reviews.
Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
An advanced search allows you to limit to book reviews.
PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
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 This link opens in a new window
Useful for sociology, social work, and related fields. Add the phrase “book review” to your keyword search.

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