Online Indexes
Click the Get it at UC link to find the full text of the review, either online or in print on the library shelves. If the library does not have access to the review you need, you can request it through Interlibrary Loan.
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Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL) This link opens in a new windowIndex to books, articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, and collections of essays.
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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowCovers academic journals, popular magazines, and other publications. Enter your book title or author of the book in the text box, and change the Document Type dropdown menu to "Book Review."
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Alternative Press Index This link opens in a new windowFull-text coverage of newspapers, magazines, and academic journals of the alternative, radical and independent press. From the Advanced Search screen, use the dropdown menu for Document Type and choose "periodical reviews." For reviews before 1991 see Alternative Press Index Archive, below.
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America: History and Life This link opens in a new windowCitations to articles on the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Choose "Review" from the Document Type box in the lower right corner.
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American Periodicals (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowDigitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from 1740 to 1900. Use the advanced search. From the Document Type box in the middle of the page, choose "review."
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Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science) This link opens in a new windowAn international index to the literature of the arts and humanities. First click the small blue text labelled "+ Add Another Field" to create a new text box. In the search box that says "Topic," use the arrow to scroll to Document Type. You can now select "Book Review," then type your book title in the second box.
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Atla Religion Database This link opens in a new windowBook reviews in religion and theology, primarily from academic journals. Incorporates the printed Index to Book Reviews in Religion (IBRR).
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Gale in Context: Biography This link opens in a new windowFrom the Advanced Search (button to the right of the search box) click Review from the alphabetical list, then click the "Add" button. You can now type the title of your book in the "Find" search box at the top. A keyword search will work.
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C19: The Nineteenth Century Index This link opens in a new windowA combination of indexes, including Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, The Wellesley Index, Poole's Index, and Periodicals Index Online. Also contains almost a million records from the ongoing digitization of British Periodicals Collections I and II.
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Contemporary Women's Issues This link opens in a new windowPublications of world organizations. Includes reviews of feminist scholarship in literature and the arts. Choose Book Review from the drop-down menu next to Article Type.
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Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new windowIndex to publications of the ethnic, minority and Native press. From the Document Type box in the middle of the page, choose "Review."
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Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index This link opens in a new windowIndex to journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality and gender during the Middle Ages. In English, French, German and Spanish. From the Advanced Search, type "book review" in the text box next to Article Type, then enter your book title or author in the appropriate box.
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GenderWatch This link opens in a new windowOver 200 titles offering historical and current perspectives on the evolution of gender roles as they affect both men and women. From the Document Type box in the bottom half of the page, scroll down and check the Review box.
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Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowCitations to articles on the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). Click "Book Review" from the Document Type box in the lower left corner.
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ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance This link opens in a new windowIter contains approximately 135,000 records from scholarly journals pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Click the icon marked "Search a Database (Subscribers Only)", then choose "Iter Bibliography" from the next page. Go to the Advanced Search page, enter your book title in the "any field" text box at the top of the screen, then choose "review" from the dropdown menu at the bottom of the screen.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new windowAn archival collection (not an index) of major scholarly journals across all disciplines. All issues of JSTOR journals are full-text; the most recent year available for any particular journal varies. From the Advanced screen, click the Reviews box.
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Nexis Uni This link opens in a new windowFull-text book reviews from newspapers, magazines, broadcast transcripts, blogs, and web publications. Click "News" from the left margin, then enter your book title in quotation marks in the text box labeled "Search in all News for..."
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Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) This link opens in a new windowThe database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. From the center bottom of the page, click "Review" under "Document Type" in the drop down menu.
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Literature Criticism Online This link opens in a new windowFrom the Advanced Search, type your book title in the search box, then click "book review" from the Document Type menu at the bottom of the page.
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Periodicals Archive Online This link opens in a new windowFull-text version of Periodicals Index Online (below).
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Periodicals Index Online This link opens in a new windowAn index of nearly 5,000 scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, psychology, and geography from their first issues to 1995, some full text. The scope is international. Many (but not all) have book reviews. From the Advanced Search, type your book's title into the keyword box and click the "review" option at the bottom of the page.
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Project Muse This link opens in a new windowFull-text access to hundreds of university press journals. Choose "Advanced Search" from the upper right corner, then click "Review" in the left margin under Content Type.
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ProQuest One Literature
This database contains 3 million literature citations from thousands of journals, monographs, dissertations, and more than 500,000 primary works. These include rare and obscure texts, multiple versions, and non-traditional sources like comics, theatre performances, and author readings. It also includes book reviews and criticism related to this content.
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Readers' Guide Retrospective This link opens in a new windowIndex to the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the US, including publications such as The New Yorker, History Today, and The New York Times Review of Books. Enter your book title into the first text box, then limit to Book Review from the Document Type menu at bottom of page.
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Web of Science This link opens in a new windowDespite its name, Web of Science also covers scholarly literature in the humanities, social sciences, and arts. To limit your search to book reviews, select Advanced Search and choose "Book review" from the "restrict results" box.
Print Indexes
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American Book ReviewsRef Z1035 A1 A43
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Black Literature CriticismRef PS 153 N5 B556
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Book Review IndexListed alphabetically by author of the book that has been reviewed. Gives an abbreviation for the journal containing the review, and brief citation information to the issue and page where the review appears. You may have to look at the index volume 2 or even 3 years after the book's publication date before seeing the first published review.
Ref Z1219 B66 -
British Humanities IndexRef A13 B72
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Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals, 1886-1974Good for reviews written in the mid to early 20th century. Arranged by author and title.
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Cambridge Guide to Literature in EnglishRef PR 85 C29 1992
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Cumulative Book Review DigestRef Z1219 B65
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Index to Book Reviews in England 1749 - 1774 and 1775-1800Ref Z1035 A1 F67 1990
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Index to Book Reviews in the HumanitiesRef Z1219 I5
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Guide to Critical Reviews of United States Fiction 1870 - 1910Ref PS374 US E35 1971