Book
Reviews
Bibliographie
de Civilisation Médiévale [Turnhout,
Belgium] : Brepols
A companion to the index of articles in the International
Medieval Bibliography Online, this database indexes
books and book reviews on the same topics. Slated to
contain approximately 40,000 book records and 64,000
review records, as of November 2004 the database contains
10,000 records for authors A-I, covering the years 1957-2004.
Bibliographie
der Rezensionen (Leipzig, 1900-1943.)
Reference, Index Case AI9 B537 Bibliography of book
reviews, primarily in German periodicals. Continued
by the Internationale
Bibliographie der Rezensionen wissenschaftlicher Literatur.
Book Review Digest ( New York: H. W. Wilson
Company, 1905- .)
Reference, Index Case Z1219 B66 (LC)
Available online
to the Yale community Book Review Digest cites
and provides excerpts of reviews of current fiction
and nonfiction books that have been published in the
English language (including translations of works into
English). An abstract of the book is also provided.
Approximately 100 leading periodicals published in the
United States, Canada, and Great Britain are covered.
The online version covers the years 1983 to the present
and the database is updated monthly. The printed volumes
begin in 1905.
Book
Review Index (Detroit: Gale, 1965- .)
Reference, Index Case Z1035 A1 B66 (LC) Indexes many
of the same sources included in Book Review Digest and
includes more reviews drawn from academic journals.
Bimonthly with quarterly and annual cumulations.
Combined
retrospective index to book reviews in humanities journals,
1802-1974 (Woodbridge, CT: Research Publications,
1982-1984. 10v.)
Reference Z1035 A1 +C63 (LC)
Combined
retrospective index to book reviews in scholarly journals,
1886-1974 (Arlington,
VA: Carrollton Press, 1979-1982. 15 v.)
Reference Z1035 A1 +C64 (LC)
H-Net Reviews
Available online
H-Net maintains an extensive network of listservs devoted
to research in the humanities and social sciences. H-Net
Reviews is "the web-based access tool to the online
reviews published by H-Net's discussion networks." Select
Books. There are numerous search options, including
by publisher, ISBN, and most recent reviews.
History:
Reviews of new books (Washington: HELDREF Publications,
1972- . 10 no. a year)
Reference Z6205 +H58 (LC)
Index
to Book Reviews in the Humanities (Williamston,
MI: Thomson, 1960-90.)
Reference Z1035 A1 I53 (LC) Now annual. Includes books
in social science. Sources for reviews mainly English-language
learned journals. No abstracts. Arrangement is by author
of book reviewed.
Internationale
Bibliographie der Rezensionen: IBR = International Bibliography
of Book Reviews (Osnabruck: F. Dietrich, 1983-
.)
Reference, Index Case AI9 I57 (LC)
Available online
to the Yale community The IBR is an "international bibliography
of book reviews of scholarly literature." It indexes
book reviews in all subject areas in German, French
and English. The IBR continues Internationale Bibliographie
der Rezensionen wissenschaftlicher Literatur, below.
Internationale
Bibliographieder Rezensionen wissenschaftlicher Literature
= International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly
Literature (Osnabruck: F. Dietrich Verlag, 1971-1983.)
Reference, Index Case AI9 I57 (LC) See the description
for the IBR, above. Continues the Bibliographie
der Rezensionen. Annual.
Medieval Review
Available online
Since 1993, The Medieval Review (TMR; formerly the Bryn
Mawr Medieval Review) has been publishing reviews of
current work in all areas of Medieval Studies, a field
it interprets as broadly as possible. The electronic
medium allows for very rapid publication of reviews,
and provides a computer searchable archive of past reviews.
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