Finding Book Reviews

2. Recent Books (mid-1980s to present)

American humanities index (1975- ) is good for book reviews in the literary reviews.
LOCATION: Widener: WID-LC AI3.A278

Biography Resource Center (1980s- ). Many of the articles under the Magazine Articles tab are book reviews. Contemporary Authors Online (Narrative Biographies tab) lists book reviews under the heading "Periodicals".

Book review digest (1906- ) offers abstracts of book reviews from about 100 U.S., Canadian, and British periodicals. 1900-04 book reviews are in Readers' Guide Retrospective.
LOCATION: Lamont: REF.ROOM Z1219 (1920- ; In storage, ask at Circulation Desk)
LOCATION: Widener: RR 675.2

Factiva (1980- ) provides full text of articles in newspapers and many magazines and journals.

Humanities index
(1974- ) groups book reviews at the back of each volume.
LOCATION: Widener: RR 663.2.3

IBR - Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen wissenschaftlicher Literatur (1971- ) is a valuable listing of book reviews in non-English-language, especially German, periodicals.

LexisNexis Academic (late 1980s- ) includes book reviews in U. S. and foreign newspapers. New York Times included from 1980.

Social sciences index (June 1974- ) groups book reviews at the back of each volume. Indexes over 400 English-language periodicals in anthropology, economics, geography, law, political science, and sociology.
LOCATION: Baker Business: Reading Room (1974-93)
LOCATION: Tozzer: REF AI 3.S62 (1974-2004)
LOCATION: Widener: RR663.2.4

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