Book Reviews

America: History and Life (1964-)
Includes approximately 6,000 citations of book and media reviews from a selection of over one hundred key journals in US and Canadian history and related fields. On the search screen limit the document type to book review or media review.

Reviews in American History (JSTOR ) v. 1 (1973) - v. 22 (1994)
Reviews in American History (Project Muse) v. 23 (1995) - present
Each issue presents reviews of over thirty of the newest books in American history, as well as retrospective essays examining landmark works by major historians.

Arts and Humanities Citation Index (1975-)
An international interdisciplinary index to the literature of the arts and humanities, indexing the contents of about 6,100 journals, covering about 1,000 fully and about 5,100 selectively. It is an excellent source for locating book reviews published across the broad range of humanities literature. Locate reviews by searching for the author and title as a cited reference then limiting the result to book reviews.

Book Review Digest
An index to book reviews in several hundred popular, general interest, and scholarly periodicals, this title also reproduces sections of many of the reviews indexed. The word length of the review is also given -- a handy way to identify the core scholarly reviews.
• Years of Coverage:1905- in print; 1983- online
• Print version is located in SML, Reference, Index Case Z1219 B66 (LC)

Book Review Index
Bimonthly with quarterly and annual cumulations. While indexing many of the same sources included in Book review digest, this title includes more reviews drawn from academic journals.
• Years of Coverage: 1965-
• Located in SML, Reference, Index Case Z1035 A1 B66 (LC)

Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Humanities Journals, 1802-1974
• Located in SML, Reference Z1035 A1 +C63 (LC)

Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals, 1886-1974
• Located in SML, Reference Room Z1035 A1 +C64 (LC)

History: Reviews of New Books
•Years of Coverage:1972-
• Located in SML, Reference Z6205 +H58 (LC)

H-Net: Humanities Online: H-Net Reviews
An online scholarly review journal. The reviews are published online via discussion networks and the H-Net web site. Once posted to individual H-Net networks, reviews are posted to H-Review and archived on this site. You can browse through the volumes or use the search feature to assist in finding reviews.

An Index to Book Reviews in the Humanities
• Years of Coverage: 1960- (Annual)
• Located in SML, Reference Z1035 A1 I53 (LC)

New York Times Books on the Web
New York Times Book Review
Provides searchable archive of over 50,000 book reviews, author interviews, and book news articles from the newspaper and the New York Times Book Review since 1980. It also contains the full text of the weekly Book Review (available on the web since January 5, 1997) as well as a feature called "Life and Times: Major authors, in their own words and ours," and selected first chapters from New York Times Book Review or New York Times bestseller list books. Note that these sites, while free, require registration.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON AN AUTHOR

The Biography Resource Center
The Biography Resource Center (BioRC) is a database of biographical information throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It combines more than 245,000 biographies from sources such as Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Newsmakers, Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television, Contemporary Musicians, Historic World Leaders, Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists, Contemporary Black Biography, Religious Leaders of America, International Dictionary of Art and Artists, Writers Directory; with full-text articles from nearly 250 periodicals including American History, The Christian Century, Saturday Night, U.S. News & World Report.

Gale Literary Databases
When you simultaneously search Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select (CLC Select) and Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB), you'll find information on the lives and writings of nearly 100,000 authors along with critical reaction to their works. Print Versions & Locations: Contemporary Authors, SML Reference, Z1224 +C654 & Z1224 +C66 Dictionary of Literary Biography, SML Reference, PN451 +D53 Contemporary Literary Criticism, SML Reference, PN771 +C59

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