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Book Reviews
America: History and
Life (1964-)
Citations of book and media reviews from a selection of 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.
Air
University Library Index to Military Periodicals
A subject index to articles, book reviews, and editorials from English language
military and aeronautical periodicals.
Alt-Press
Watch
A full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative
and independent press.
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-
SML, Reference, Index Case Z1035 A1 B66 (LC)
Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Humanities
Journals, 1802-1974
SML, Reference Z1035 A1 +C63 (LC)
Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Scholarly
Journals, 1886-1974
SML, Reference Room Z1035 A1 +C64 (LC)
- History: Reviews of New Books
Years of Coverage:1972-
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)
SML, Reference Z1035 A1 I53 (LC)
New
York Times Books on the Web
New York Times
Book Review
Archive of 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
Database of biographical information throughout history, around
the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas with 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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