Finding Book Reviews
Sometimes book reviews are available directly in the book record. Other times, it is necessary to through databases to locate book reviews. Below are some of the databases available at Milne that provide book reviews. You can also usually have good luck using the advanced option in Milne Search!
- Book Review Digest Plus This link opens in a new windowCurrent book reviews and citations to reviews collected from a variety of published sources.
- Book Review Digest Retro 1903-1982 This link opens in a new windowExcerpts from and citations to book reviews.
- Choice Reviews This link opens in a new windowSource for reviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet resources of interest to those in higher education.
- America: History & Life with Full Text This link opens in a new windowCovers the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Selective indexing of about 1700 journals from 1955 to the present. Offers full-text for about 200 journals.
- Periodicals Archive Online This link opens in a new windowPeriodicals Archive Online is a major archive that makes the backfiles of scholarly periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences available electronically, providing access to the searchable full text of hundreds of titles. The database spans more than two centuries of content in 37 key subject areas.
- Readers' Guide Retrospective, 1890-1982 This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing of over three million articles from more than 550 leading magazines including full coverage of the original print volumes of Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature. This resource offers researchers access to information about history, culture and seminal developments across nearly a century. Readers’ Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 includes all the information from 44 Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature annuals, as well as access to over three million articles from approximately 550 leading magazines.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowFull-text access to over 1400 core scholarly journals and e-books across most subject areas.
Can be used for course content: Titles from many university presses and other academic publishers. - Project Muse This link opens in a new windowFull text database of over 100 scholarly journals and books from university presses in fields including literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, political science, gender studies, and economics. Includes books from many university presses and scholarly journals
