Book Review Sources

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Academic Search

The world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for more than 3,600 scholarly publications, including more than 2,700 peer-reviewed publications. Search for book reviews in Advanced Search using the title of the book (in quotation marks) in the Title field and books -- reviews as the Subject term .

Arts & humanities citation index (through the Web of Science)

This is 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. Books from all time periods are included, but the reviews indexed are only from 1975 to the present.

IBR: the International Bibliography of Book Reviews

The IBR indexes book reviews from publications around the world, primarily journals in the humanities and social sciences from 1985 to the present. Coverage extends back to 1900 through the following print sources:

• Bibliographie der Rezensionen. 1900-43. v.1-77. Leipzig.
• Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen wissenschaftlicher Literature. 1971- . v.1-. Annual.

SML, Main Reference Room AI9 B6

Book review digest plus

Not only an index to book reviews in several hundred popular, general interest, and scholarly periodicals, but also a title that reproduces sections of many of the reviews indexed and includes an abstract of the book reviewed. The word length of the review is also given -- a handy way to identify the core scholarly reviews. Coverage extends back to 1905 through the following print source:

• Book review digest. New York: H.W.Wilson.

SML Main Reference Room Index Case Z1219 B66 (LC)

Book review index online plus.

While indexing many of the same sources included in Book review digest plus, this title includes more reviews drawn from academic journals and provides links to reviews appearing in many of the online journals to which Yale subscribes.

Combined retrospective index to book reviews in humanities journals, 1802-1974. Woodbridge, CT. : Research Publications, 1982-1984. 10 v.

SML, Main Reference Room Z1035 A1 +C63 (LC)

Combined retrospective index to book reviews in scholarly journals, 1886-1974. Arlington, Va. : Carrollton Press, 1979-1982. 15 v.

SML, Main Reference Room Z1035 A1 +C64 (LC)

Forster, Antonia. Index to book reviews in England, 1749-1774. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1990.

SML, Starr Main Reference Room Z1035 A1 F67 1990 (LC)

SML, Stacks Z1035 A1 F67X 1990 (LC) -----. Index to book reviews in England, 1775-1800. [London]: The British Library, 1997.

SML, Starr Main Reference Room Z1035. A1 F675 1997 (LC)

H-Net:humanities and social sciences online: H-Net Reviews

H-Net's book reviews bring a new dimension to the world of academic publishing. Because the reviews are published online, they reach scholars much more quickly than reviews in traditional media. Further, a new kind of interactivity is made possible, as reviewers, authors and readers engage in discussion of the reviews themselves. H-Net reviews are commissioned by specialists who serve as book review editors for the topical H-Net discussion lists; they in turn are advised by the scholars on H-Net's international editorial boards.

An index to book reviews in the humanities. Williamston, MI: P. Thomson, 1960- . Annual.

SML, Main Reference Room Z1035 A1 I53 (LC)

New York Times Books on the Web

 

New York Times Book Review

The highlight of this section of the New York Times website is the 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.

Periodicals Index Online

PCI is an index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1995. Enter the title of the work in the Article Title Keyword field (authors' names appear there, too, when they appear at all). Browse the Journal Section and select all book review related sections.

Reviews in history (Institute of Historical Research)

Launched in 1996, this e-journal publishes book reviews, review articles, and reappraisals of significant work in all fields of historical interest.