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Before you start your search you should know the title and author of the book being reviewed. The date of publication will sometimes also be required. Some databases offer a search option to limit search results to book reviews. Where not present, adding a keyword search that includes the phrase "book review" should help. Reviews of popular books are typically published close to their publication dates; find them via book-related websites and indexes that cover general interest periodicals. Reviews of scholarly books may take months to appear in scholarly journals. For more databases that cover scholarly journals, visit the Library of Congress E-Resources Online Catalog .

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Free contemporary book reviews are widely available on the web. The sources listed below are some of the most common places to find them.

• Amazon.com External Amazon.com offers book reviews of many of the book titles it sells. Some reviews are by professionals; many are by readers. Find a book and scroll down its entry to read the reviews, where present. For balance, try a variety of positive and negative reviews.
• Barnes & Noble External Barnes and Noble includes professional book reviews with the descriptions of many of the books it sells.
• Complete Review External The Complete Review contains a selected listing of old and new book titles with reviews and links to more reviews.
• GoodReads Reviews External GoodReads offers millions of book reviews contributed by its community members which include librarians, journalists, and many other readers.
• Kirkus Reviews External Kirkus Reviews includes reviews new and forthcoming fiction, non-fiction and Young Adult (YA) books. Kirkus also has a print magazine available by subscription.
• Library Journal Reviews+ External Library Journal reviews books on a wide array of popular and scholarly topics expected to interest a broad spectrum of libraries. Reviews from the most recent 24 months are free online.
• LibraryThing Reviews External LibraryThing Reviews are written by members of the LibraryThing community of readers and book collectors. Reviews are grouped in various ways, including by genre or may be searched by author or title.
• New York Times Book Review (free selections) External A free collection of book reviews published in The New York Times since 1981. A more extensive paid subscription database is also available.
• School Library Journal Reviews+ External Features reviews from School Library Journal from the most recent twenty-four months. Browse by genre, grade level, award winners and other criteria.

Subscription databases are great sources for current and recent book reviews. Many also include historical coverage.

• Children's Literature Review, Vols 1-216

These more general subscription databases cover a wide array of periodicals which include book reviews. Using the phrase "book review" in your search can be effective if no check-box option for book reviews is available in the database's search function.

Some researchers seek reviews that are decades or even centuries old, for example, to see how a book written in the 19th Century was reviewed when it was first released. This listing includes general and book review resources. For the general sources, be sure to Include the phrase "book review" in your search if no check-box option for book reviews is available.

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• Early American Newspapers, Series 5, 1777-1922: An Emerging World Power
• Early American Newspapers, Series 6, 1741-1922: Compromise and Disunion
• Early American Newspapers, Series 7: 1773-1922: Reform and Retrenchment
• Early American Newspapers, Series 8, 1844-1922: A Nation in Transition
• Early American Newspapers, Series 9, 1832-1922: Protest and Prosperity
• Early American Newspapers, Series 11, 1803-1899: From Agrarian Republic to World Power
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• Early American Newspapers, Series 13, 1803-1916: The American West
• Early American Newspapers, Series 14, 1807-1880: The Expansion of Urban America
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• Early American Newspapers Series 17, 1844-1922: American Heartland
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Book Review Digest Retrospective: 1903-1982

Collecting nearly eight decades of H.W. Wilson’s Book Review Digest, this archive database provides over a million book review citations from 1903 to 1982. It covers adult and juvenile fiction and nonfiction and provides at least one review excerpt per book. 

Virtually every major idea that shaped the 20 th  century found expression in books. The reactions to those ideas are reflected in the reviews of those books, and Book Review Digest Retrospective makes it easy to search this vast record of information. 

Book Review Digest Retrospective includes at least one substantial review excerpt (up to 500 words) per book. Book reviewers are searchable by name, with excerpts by such famous writers as Edmund Wilson and John Updike.

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Book Review Digest

Book Review Digest is an American publication that summarizes and quotes from book reviews. (There is a Wikipedia article about this serial .)

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Book Review Digest began in 1905 as a monthly publication with an annual cumulation. No issue or contribution copyright renewals were found for this serial. ( More details ) It is still published today, both in annual volumes and in an online database. Listings below are annotated with the year they cover (which may be the year before they were published).

Persistent Archives of Complete Issues

• 1905-1928: HathiTrust has the 1st through 24th annual cumulations . Some later volumes might be searchable but not readable online here.
• 1905: The Internet Archive has the 1st annual cumulation .
• 1906: The Internet Archive has the 2nd annual cumulation .
• 1907: The Internet Archive has the 3rd annual cumulation .
• 1908: The Internet Archive has the 4th annual cumulation .
• 1909: The Internet Archive has the 5th annual cumulation .
• 1910: The Internet Archive has the 6th annual cumulation .
• 1911: The Internet Archive has the 7th annual cumulation .
• 1912: The Internet Archive has the 8th annual cumulation .
• 1913: The Internet Archive has the 9th annual cumulation .
• 1914: The Internet Archive has the 10th annual cumulation .
• 1915: The Internet Archive has the 11th annual cumulation .
• 1916: The Internet Archive has the 12th annual cumulation .
• 1917: The Internet Archive has the 13th annual cumulation .
• 1918: The Internet Archive has the 14th annual cumulation .
• 1919: The Internet Archive has the 15th annual cumulation .
• 1920: The Internet Archive has the 16th annual cumulation .
• 1921: The Internet Archive has the 17th annual cumulation . This volume includes a cumulated index for 1917-1921.
• 1922: The Internet Archive has the 18th annual cumulation .
• 1923: The Internet Archive has the 19th annual cumulation .

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Book Reviews

Book reviews provide summaries, contemporary criticism, and succinct evaluations about published works. Here are a few ways to track down reviews at the Library.

Book reviews provide summaries, contemporary criticism, and succinct evaluations about published works. Reviews normally appear within a year of the date of publication; if this date is not known, it often can be ascertained by searching the title of the work in CATNYP , the online catalog of the research collections; if the publication is not found therein and was acquired by the Library before 1971, it is then necessary to check the Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries . If these two sources are unable to provide the desired information, please consult WorldCat , an international bibliographic database. In addition, feel free to speak to a librarian at the Information Desk. If you need further assistance, visit our reference desk, or e-mail us at [email protected]

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Sources for book review citations will provide the titles and dates of periodicals in which the reviews appear. To obtain the call numbers of the appropriate periodicals, first check CATNYP, the Library’s online catalog. If the periodical in question is not found in CATNYP, check the 800-volume Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library , listing materials acquired before 1972. Although the vast majority of the entries in the Dictionary Catalog are to be found in CATNYP, some titles, especially defunct periodicals of limited run, may be found only in the Dictionary Catalog . After determining the call number for the periodical, complete a blue and white call slip with the title of the periodical, the date of the article, and the call number. Do not include the title of the article or its author.

Basic Reference Sources

Book Review Digest Plus An index, with abstracts, to book reviews from publications in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. It covers the period from 1983 to the present. Book Review Digest Retrospective Same as above but covers the period from 1905 through 1982. Both Book Review Digest Plus and Book Review Digest Retrospective may be searched by keyword, subject, title of book, author of book, author of review, Dewey Decimal Number, publication year, and ISBN. Book Review Index Online Covering the period from 1965 to the present, this resource indexes book reviews appearing in British and American scholarly and general interest publications. This resource may be searched by keyword, author of book, author of review, title of book, and publication date.

Book Reviews in Retrospective Sources

Nineteenth-Century Masterfile is an electronic index to many resources printed in the nineteenth century. It is especially important for its inclusion of Poole’s Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1881 which contains book reviews. American Periodical Series and America’s Historical Newspapers are databases which can be searched by keyword. The former provides the full text of many periodicals, and the latter is the equivalent resource for newspapers; both cover the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Book reviews are found in both resources, and may be searched by title of the book, author of the book, or author of review. The following print titles provide a resource for book reviews for the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a period which precedes the introduction of the standard book review indexing tools. Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Humanities Journals, 1802-1974 (Woodbridge, CT: Research Publications, 1982-1984), 10 vols. JFF 96-5182 . Arranged alphabetically by author of the book and supplemented by title index. Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals, 1886-1974 (Arlington, Va.: Carrollton Press, 1979-1982), 15 vols. JFF 96-5151 . Arranged alphabetically by author of the book and supplemented by title index. C.R.I.S.: The Combined Retrospective Index Set to Journals in History, 1838-1974 (Washington: Carrollton Press, 1977-1978), 11 vols. JFF 94-1576 . Volumes one through four cover world history; volumes five through nine cover United States history, and volumes ten and eleven are author indexes. C.R.I.S.: The Combined Retrospective Index Set to Journals in Political Science, 1886-1974 (Washington: Carrollton Press, 1977-1978), 8 vols. JLF 86-1799 . Volume one covers international affairs, organizations, international relations, and trade; volume two covers general studies and methodology; volumes three to six cover public administration; and volumes seven and eight are the author index. C.R.I.S.: The Combined Retrospective Index Set to Journals in Sociology, 1895-1974 (Washington: Carrollton Press, 1978), 6 vols. JLF 86-1798 . Please see CATNYP for the arrangement by sub-discipline for each volume; volume 6 is the author index.

Book Reviews in Contemporary Sources

Many contemporary resources provide book reviews; they are available electronically and may be consulted on the Library’s Selected Electronic Resources page. Please check the description for each resource to determine the years covered as well as the availability of full text as opposed to citations. The following is a select list of these specialized resources. EBSCO Research Databases provide full text or abstract for articles, including book reviews, appearing in scholarly, specialized, and general periodicals. Thousands of periodicals, representing a wide range of disciplines and subjects, are covered. More specialized indexing tools include the following: Access: The Supplementary Index to Periodicals; America: History and Life; Anthropological Literature; Art Full Text; Art Index Retrospective; ATLA Religion Database; Historical Abstracts; Humanities Abstracts; Social Sciences Abstracts; Sociological Abstracts; PsychArticles; PsychInfo. The book reviews indexed in these sources may be accessed by title of book, name of author of book, and name of reviewer .

Selected Internet Sites

• Bookreporter http://www.bookreporter.com/index.asp Book reviews, author profiles and interviews, excerpts, literary games and contests.
• Booksonline http://www.booksonline.co.uk Reviews and book-related articles from the London Telegraph. Published online since 1996.
• H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/ An international, interdisciplinary consortium of scholars and teachers, H-Net creates and coordinates Internet networks in order to advance teaching and research in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Site contains peer-reviewed essays, multimedia materials, and discussions aimed at colleagues and the interested public.
• London Review of Books http://www.lrb.co.uk Website of the bimonthly London Review of Books features an extensive, full-text archive.
• New York Review of Books http://nybooks.com/nyrev/ Contains select full-text articles.
• Salon.com: Books http://www.salon.com/books/index.html Daily book reviews, interviews with writers, and a weekly list of reading recommendations by celebrated authors.

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Scroll down the list till you see the entry for Book Review Digest Plus, and click on it.

If you have a specific book you're looking for, type in a few distinctive words from the book title. If there are any reviews for your book, they should come up in search results. To get the full texts of the reviews online, click on the box that says "full text" under where it says "limit your results." However you cannot always find the full text of the reviews online.

If you don't find your book, you might also want to try another database, listed under "A," called Academic Search Complete. Or you can search LibSearch: type the title of the book in the LibSearch search box on the Library's home page. When you get to the result list look for "Filter by Source Type" options on the left and select "Reviews".

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• Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) Covers 1975 to date with some earlier coverage. Academic Search Premier indexes more than 13,000 journals and magazines with the full text of 4,700 titles. To limit your search to reviews, on the Advanced Search page, under Document Type, you can choose Book Reviews.
• Amazon Free online resource. Date coverage unknown. Primarily a bookselling site, Amazon.com sometimes includes the full text of some published book reviews--"Editorial reviews". Their "Search inside the book" function allows viewing of selected, scanned pages--usually the covers, table of contents, index, and an excerpt from the main text. Also includes user reviews, of highly variable quality and usefulness. Overall, a very useful site for evaluating recent trade and academic books. Access to the scanned table of contents and index is very useful for nonfiction titles.
• America: History & Life Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio. Covers 1954 to date. Book reviews in U.S. and Canadian history only. Indexes about 6,000 book and media reviews from over one hundred academic journals. NB: there are no reviews in the sister database, Historical Abstracts. To limit your search to reviews, enter the book title in quotes in the default Advanced Search box.
• Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL) (Part of ProQuest One Literature ) Covers 1920 to date. "ABELL, which can be accessed via the Criticism screen in Literature Online's Search: Criticism and Reference, contains more than 860,000 records covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews , collections of essays and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world; unpublished doctoral dissertations are covered for the period 1920-1999. The bibliography consists of 77 volumes, beginning in 1920 and issued annually; a number of items published between 1892 and 1919 have been indexed retrospectively. All aspects and periods of English literature are covered, from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. British, American and Commonwealth writing are all represented. Coverage is international.
• Articles & Full Text This powerful search engine works across many databases and pulls together a wide variety of resources. Enter a book title in the search box to find reviews.
• ATLA Religion Database [S.l.]: American Theological Library Association. Covers 1949 to date. Book reviews in religion only. Incorporates the printed Index to Book Reviews in Religion (IBRR). Primarily academic titles. Book Review Digest Plus is canceled. For online searching, use Academic Search Premier's Advanced Search and choose Book Reviews under Document Type.
• Bowker's Books in Print New York: R. R. Bowker. Coverage limited to titles in print or recently out of print. A database of bibliographic records for books, audiotapes, and videos from over 44,000 North American publishers. Many records include full-text reviews. Titles with reviews are starred. Click on the book title to open the record, then click on the "Professional reviews" link at left. The full record also may have synopses/annotations, book jacket text, media mentions, and a list of awards.
• caa. reviews (College Art Association) Coverage begins online in September, 1998 . caa.reviews "publishes timely scholarly and critical reviews of studies and projects in all areas and periods of art history, visual studies, and the fine arts, providing peer review for the disciplines served by the College Art Association. Publications and projects reviewed include books, articles, exhibitions, conferences, digital scholarship, and other works as appropriate" [Mission Statement]
• Cairn.info: cherchez, repérer, avance French-language collection of journals and magazines. To find books reviewed, search the title of the book.
• Choice A searchable journal of reliable reviews of academic books for community college, college, and university libraries. Covers 01/01/2011 to date. Older reviews are available in the print version . Published by the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL).
• IBR: International Bibliography of Book Reviews. Osnabrück, Germany: F. Dietrich. Online version covers 1984(?) to date. The print version (Library Annex + AI 9 .I612) covers 1971-2011. Print version canceled in 2011. Emphasis on reviews appearing in European social sciences and humanities journals. German or English interface. For coverage of 1911-1943, see Bibliographie der Rezensionen under the print resources section in this guide.
• JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive A large collection of searchable and browseable full-text scholarly journals. Covers from the beginning of the journal (earliest is 1665) up to within two to five years of the present [the "moving wall": https://support.jstor.org/hc/en-us/articles/115004879547-About-the-Moving-Wall ]. To find book reviews, select Advanced Search . In the Advanced Search page, type one or two keywords from the book title in the first search box. Under Narrow Your Search to "These Types," check the Review box. Click Search.
• Latin American Newsstream ProQuest Coverage and format: Mostly mid 2000s to date, some coverage from the late 1990s. Plain text. In English, French, Guarani, Portuguese, and Spanish. 92 titles from Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Costa Rica, Peru, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela.
• Latino Book Review Covers 2019 to date.
• Library Literature & Information Science Index Covers book reviews in library and information science periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere. Indexing starts in 1981.
• London Review of Books Covers 1979 to date.
• New York Review of Books Covers February 1, 1963 to date.
• New York Times Book Review Covers January 3, 1988 to date . Access via the ProQuest publications list.
• Oxford Bibliographies [Online] Oxford University Press. Offers peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies (essentially thumbnail reviews) of books and journals on specific topics in a growing range of subject areas. There are at least 50 specific topical bibliographies in each subject area. Each of these features an introduction to the topic. Bibliographies are browseable by subject area and keyword searchable. Contains a "My OBO" function that allows users to create personalized bibliographies of individual citations from different bibliographies.
• Periodicals Index Online [was PCI: Periodical Contents Index] Covers 1770-1993. Searches can be restricted to book reviews only. Click the box under "Scope" on the search page. Provides comprehensive indexing to the contents of 4,250 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues (some as far back as the 18th and 19th centuries) to 1993. The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and other Western languages. Journals that are indexed in PCI which have full text available in JSTOR are linked at article level.
• Project MUSE Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Coverage varies by title, beginning no earlier than 1993, and running through the current issue. Project MUSE covers the full text of over 200 journals in literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and others. To find book reviews, choose Advanced Search and use the pulldown menu under Limit Search and By Type to select Review.
• ProQuest Digitized Newspapers Links to 36 major and regional U.S., Canadian, and UK newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The Guardian. Coverage starts from 1/1/2008 with a three-month embargo on full text.
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers Coverage varies by title but begins with the first year of publication. Full image access to reviews appearing in major U.S. and international newspapers. Useful for access to the drawings and illustrations that sometimes accompany New York Times reviews as well as reviews in Le Monde, the Irish Times, and the Globe and Mail. Searches by document type can only be limited to "reviews." This includes theatrical and musical reviews.
• ProQuest Recent Newspapers: Regional Collections Links to five multi-title regional newspaper collections covering 30 newspapers in all. Coverage starts from either 1/1/2008, 1/1/2009, 1/1/2010, 1/1/2011, or 1/1/2012 with a two-week to three-month embargo on full text.
• ProQuest Research Library Ann Arbor: ProQuest. Coverage varies . Indexes general interest magazines and scholarly journals in the social sciences, humanities, and sciences. Also included are citations and abstracts for some newspapers and selected television and radio programs. The full text of some articles is provided. Under Document type you can click Reviews to limit your search results.
• Reader's Guide Retrospective,1890 to 1982 Bronx, NY: H.W. Wilson and Ipswich, MA: EBSCO Publishing. Book reviews appearing in popular magazines. Entries are sometimes labeled Book Review or Review. Beware of alternate spellings of international authors' names.
• Reference Reviews Europe Online Firenze: Casalini Libri. Covers 1994 to 2014 . "Each year Reference Reviews Europe offers around 300 English-language reviews of European reference titles. The journal is published in two forms: the electronic Reference Reviews Europe Online (RREO) and the printed Reference Reviews Europe Annual (RREA) (Uris Z 1002 .R32, 1995-, latest volume in Olin Reference). Much of the content consists of abstracts in English of reviews that originally appeared in the German journal Informationsmittel : IFB (IFB) [previous title Informationsmittel für Bibliotheken ]. IFB, edited by Klaus Schreiber of the Württembergische Landesbibliothek in Stuttgart, and formerly published by the Deutsches Bibliotheksinstitut in Berlin, currently is available only online. Since its inception in 1993, it has reviewed more than 500 titles per year, covering reference materials in all subjects and formats. Although German-language publications predominate in IFB, titles in other European languages, including French, Icelandic, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, and Spanish are also covered. The reviewers for IFB are mostly German librarians and academics. The abstractors for Reference Reviews Europe are mainly North American librarians." [adapted from the RREO Website ]
• Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive Covers 1902 to 2014 .
• TLS, the Times Literary Supplement Covers 2010 to date via Exact Editions.
• Web of Science Core Collection Philadelphia: Institute for Scientific Information. Web of Science Core Collection includes Science Citation Index (1945 to date) , Social Sciences Citation Index (1956 to date) , Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975 to date) , and more. A multi-disciplinary set of databases indexing thousands of titles. To limit your search to book reviews, select Advanced Search and highlight "Book review" in the box under "Restrict search by languages and document types."
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