Book Reviews (Humanities): Databases

Index to books, articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, and collections of essays.

Covers 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."
For reviews of popular books written before 1984, try Readers Guide Retrospective, below.

Full-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.

Search as for API, above.

Citations 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.

Digitized 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."

An 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.

Book reviews in religion and theology, primarily from academic journals. Incorporates the printed Index to Book Reviews in Religion (IBRR).
Under Publication Type in the lower right, click Review.

From 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.

A 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.

Publications 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.

Index to publications of the ethnic, minority and Native press. From the Document Type box in the middle of the page, choose "Review."

Index 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.

Over 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.

Citations 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.

Iter 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.

An 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.

Full-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..."

The 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.

A comprehensive literature database that includes ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature) and the full text to hundreds of literary journals. Click the "Criticism" link from the blue banner at the top of the page, then choose "All Criticism." You can now click the box next to "Reviews" at the bottom of the page.

From 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.

Full-text version of Periodicals Index Online (below).

An 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.

Full-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.

Index 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.
For reviews of popular books written after 1982, try Academic Search Complete, above.

Despite 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.