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General Book Review Sources

Choice Reviews Online This link opens in a new window
Choice Academic Reviews for scholarly books and e-resources.
Times Literary Supplement Archive This link opens in a new window
Full-text and fully searchable, the Times Literary Supplement (London) contains a wide variety of contemporary literary reviews. This resource can also be searched, along other resources, within Gale Primary Sources. Coverage: from 1902 - 2014
New York Times Historical (1851-3yr embargo) This link opens in a new window
Full-image and fully searchable access to the New York Times, from its first issue as the New York Daily Times, 1851 until 3 years from the present.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
A scholarly, multi-disciplinary database indexing 17,000+ periodicals and publications; over 8,700 titles are full-text and over 7,600 are peer-reviewed. Coverage: 20th century to present. EBSCO platform.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
A full-image (pdf) repository of over 2,600 scholarly journals and 48,000 eBooks in all disciplines. Coverage: varies; some holdings extend back to the 19th century.

Databases that index journals, magazines and newspapers in a particular discipline may also contain book reviews. See a list of databases organized by discipline below.

Discipline Specific Book Review Sources

These subject-specific databases allow you to limit your search to book reviews (see options in Advanced Search). You may search for a specific book title, OR browse a list of book reviews on a subject by conducting a keywords or subject search.

Business Source Elite This link opens in a new window
Periodicals in business and management-related disciplines, both scholarly and news sources, some full text. Company and industry profiles available. Covers approximately 1985 - present.
Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing to journals in communication, mass media, and related fields of study. Offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts hundreds of journals with over half full text. Coverage: from 1930.
ERIC: Education Resources Information Center (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
Indexes and abstracts documents and journal articles on education research and practice. Coverage: documents and reports since 1900, journal articles since 1966.
GreenFile This link opens in a new window
Indexes and abstracts from academic journals, magazines, and government publications related to human impact on the environment. Full text available for over 4,000 open access articles. Coverage: since 1965.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Searches literary criticism indexed by MLA (Modern Languages Association) which includes international scholarly journals, academic books, conference proceedings and dissertations covering literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Coverage: criticism published 1920 to present.
Philosopher's Index This link opens in a new window
An index covering scholarly research from journals and book chapters published in the field of philosophy. Coverage: since 1940.
Primary Search This link opens in a new window
Primary Search provides full text for more than 70 popular magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.
PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
Indexes the contents from peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, dissertations, and reports in psychology and related disciplines. Coverage from the early 1800's to the present. NOTE: Includes full-text articles from PsycArticles and links to PsycTests. More information (pdf).

Book Reviews: Home

Book Reviews as Sources of Information

Book reviews provide critical information about the content of a book and can save a researcher valuable time in making initial resource selection. Reviews can be found in popular, trade, scholarly and news resources.

General Book Review Sources

Discipline Specific Book Review Sources