Book Reviews
Books are reviewed in newspapers, magazines, and scholarly (or "peer reviewed") journals. Ordinarily a book will be reviewed within a year after it is published, although it may take longer for scholarly reviews to appear. To find a book review, you need to know the book's author, title, and date of publication. Here are several sources for finding book reviews, with dates they cover:
Current Sources
- Academic Search 1984 to the present
- Can limit to peer reviewed sources only.
- Book Review Index, 1965 to the present (Index Table 2)
- LexisNexis Academic 1980s and 1990s to present
- Coverage is different for every publication included
- OmniFile Full Text Mega 1984 to the present
- Can limit to peer reviewed sources only
Sources for Earlier Publications
- Book Review Digest, 1905-1997, Table 2 (abstr Z 1219 .C95)
- Gives full bibliographic information about the book, a summary of the book, excerpts from some of the reviews, and references to full reviews in magazines, journals, and newspapers.
- Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals: 1886-1974 (abstr Z 1035 .A1 C65)
- Humanities Index, 1974-2002, Table 2 (abstr AI 3 .R492)
- A section at the back of each volume lists book reviews, which are from scholarly sources only.
- Nineteenth Century Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, 1890-1899, with supplementary indexing, 1900-1922, Table 1 (abstr AI 3 .R496)
- Reviews are listed by book author's name, followed by book title
- Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1906 Table 1 (abstr AI 3 .P7)
- Reviews are listed by book author's name, followed by book title
- Social Sciences Index, 1974-2002 Table 2 (abstr AI 3 .493)
- A section at the back of each volume lists book reviews, which are from scholarly sources only.