Research Guides: Finding Book Reviews: Find Reviews in Article Databases

Selected Print Resources

Many book reviews can be discovered electronically but some retrospective tools in print are also important.

Combined retrospective index to book reviews in humanities journals, 1802-1974

Joyner Ref. Stacks Z1035.A1 C652X

Combined retrospective index to book reviews in scholarly journals, 1886-1974

Joyner Ref. Stacks Z1035.A1 C6X

Databases for Book Reviews

America: History and Life This link opens in a new window
An index of bibliographic citations to literature on the full history of the United States and Canada. Some citations include links to full-text. Content spans 1964 – Present.
Book Review Digest This link opens in a new window
Provides reviews of fiction and non-fiction books. Includes excerpts, complete reviews and citations. Content spans 1903 – 1982.
Books In Print This link opens in a new window
Provides bibliographic information for books, audio books, and video titles. Includes information on availability of titles from distributors and wholesalers as well as information on out of print and forthcoming titles. Also contains the Bowker’s Publisher Authority Database, with contacts for publishers, distributors, wholesalers and book agents from around the world.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
An extensive archive of American and international scholarly journals and books in the humanities, sciences, philosophy, and social sciences.  Provides downloadable PDFs. Content spans 1800 – 2 years ago.
Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text journal articles literary criticism, reviews, biographies of writers in all disciplines from all time periods.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Provides access to complete versions of scholarly journals and books from University Presses and scholarly societies, and scholarly open access content. Topics include: humanities and social sciences.