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Book Reviews

Multidisciplinary Indexes

Covers journals with radical points of view. Print holdings begin in 1969.
 
Book Review Digest
Print:  Z1219 .B7  Storage (1983-2005)
Online: (1903-1982)
 
Book Review Index
Z1035 .A1 B6 Storage (1965-2011)
Selects reviews from a much broader range of general periodicals than Book Review Digest, but BRI only cites reviews and does not include review excerpts.
 
Provides access to full-text book reviews from scholarly and general magazines, as well as book review sections from major newspapers from 1981 onwards.
Tip: Type the author's last name and the title of the book and the word "review".
 
An index to articles from nearly 1,200 English-language periodicals, including many of the most important scholarly journals of the 20th century. More than 1,300,000 articles and 240,000 book reviews are included.
 
Index to Book Reviews in England, 1749-1774
REF Z1035.A1F67 1990
 
Index to Book Reviews in England, 1775-1800
REF Z1035.A1F675 1997t
 
JSTOR
Reviews of humanities, history, anthropology publications. Limit your search to "reviews" by ticking the option under the search box.
 
 
Full text of all reviews published since 1996 in the Sunday book reviews.
 
 
Nineteenth Century Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature
REF AP3.R496 (1890-1922) 2 vols.
Citations to book reviews are listed under the author's last name, then by title of book. See Readers' Guide for more recent reviews.
 
Indexes popular and general interest Anglo-American and European periodicals from 19th century and early 20th century.
 
This database is useful for identifying reviews of older books in humanities and social science journals as well as popular periodicals covering the years 1802-2000. Search tips: You can limit to “book reviews,” but you’ll retrieve more reviews if you don’t.
 
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature
Print::  AI3.R2 from 1983-2006 
Online: 1890-1982
 
Microfilm AN4.L6T56 (1785- excluding latest 2-3 months)
 
Times Literary Supplement
Print and Microfilm  from 1902-present
 
An integrated bibliographic resource for discovering 19th-century books, periodicals, official records, newspapers, and archives.