Reference:BOOK REVIEWS

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BOOK REVIEWS

Print Sources:


Book Review Digest (Ref Z1219 .C96)

Book Review Index (Ref Z1219 .B6)

Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals, 1886-1974 (Ref Z1035.A1 C65)

Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Humanities Journals, 1802-1974 (Ref AZ221 .C64)

Children's Book Review Index (Ref. PN1009.A1 C5125)

Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature (Ref AI3 .R48)

Social Sciences Index (Ref H1 S655) (separate section in back of volume)

New York Times Book Review Index, 1896-1970 (Ref Z 1035 A1 N3)

London Times Index (Ref AI21 .T522)

Humanities Index (Ref AI3 .H82)


Book Review Databases: http://infodome.sdsu.edu/research/databases/book.shtml, which includes Review of the Arts (now in Newsbank Newsfile), Ebsco, ProQuest, Ethnic NewsWatch, and Web of Science. (Also see Reader Guide Retrospective from 1977-1982, and Humanities and Social Sciences Retrospective).

Also see specific subject disciplines, such as :

Children's Literature: http://infodome.sdsu.edu/research/guides/clreviews.shtml

Education: ERIC; Education Abstracts Full Text; Education Index Retrospective

History: America: History and Life (but not Historical Abstracts)

Latin American Studies: HAPI, Guia a las resenas de libros de y sobre Hispanoamerica (F1408 .G82)

Literature: see Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL) ; ABELL is also available electronically in Literature Online; (There are no book reviews in MLA Bibliography). Also see [RRF-LiteraryCriticism.html Literary Criticism] entry

Philosophy: Philosopher's Index, JSTOR, Project Muse

Sociology: Sociological Abstracts

Psychology: Web of Science; PsycCritiques

Religious Studies: Religion Index (and remember that the San Diego Public Library (SDPL) has the online database ATLA Religion Database, which requires a SDPL library card for remote access).

Sciences: General Science Index (Ref. Q158.5 .G45)

Women's Studies: Women's Studies Index; also Women's Review of Books and Lesbian Review of Books (both indexed in Lexis Nexis)


Also see Lexis-Nexis (under News, then Arts and Entertainment); Atlantic Monthly book reviews at http://www.theatlantic.com/search/ and New York Times Book Review at http://www.nytimes.com/books/

Also see Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble and Books in Print for book reviews and tables of contents. Another resource is http://www.h-net.org/reviews/

There is a helpful article entitled "Finding Book Reviews in Print and Online" in RUSQ, 42(3) Spring 2003, located in the Reference Drawer.

Older book reviews (including some 19th century reviews) can be found in the Literature Resource Center at SDPL.

See also Literary Criticism and Plot Summaries

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