WHERE TO FIND PUBLISHED BOOK REVIEWS
(the following generously provided by Lorene
B. Harris, Medford Library)
BOOK
REVIEW INDEX ONLINE PLUS
Includes more than 5 million review citations, plus more than 634,000 full-text
reviews from InfoTrac OneFile and InfoTrac Expanded Academic.
BOOK REVIEW DIGEST
Ref PN 44 .B66
Identifies where to find book reviews in magazines and
journals and often includes excerpts from the reviews. Look in the
volume for the year (1905 to the present) in which the book was published,
then alphabetically by the author's last name.
INFOTRAC
GENERAL ONEFILE
Identifies where to find book reviews in magazines and journals; may
also include the full-text of the reviews. Use only for books published
in the last 25 years. Search by using the author's name or
the title of the book.
ACADEMIC
SEARCH PREMIER
Also identifies where to find book reviews in magazines and journals.
Full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage offers information dating as far back as 1975. Use
the Advanced Search screen and in the "Document
Type" area, select "Book Review" along with typing in your
author's name in the search field.
WILSONWEB
OMNIFILE
Indexes
book reviews and provides full text from magazines and journals. Search
using the author's name or the book title. On the search screen, go
to the "Document Type" box and select "book review".
Another option is to select "books reviewed" from the "as" drop-down
box on the right of the screen after putting in the titles in the search
box on the left. See the icon legend at the top of the results list to
identify which articles are in full-text or full-image in the database
LITERATURE
RESOURCE CENTER
Rich in biographical, bibliographical, and critical content, LRC includes
book reviews on works of history. Most articles are in full-text. Use the
Advanced Search function to search by author. Then, on the author's biographical
screen, click on the tab at the top for "Literary Criticism, Articles,
and Work Overviews".
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to Access Databases from Off-Campus
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