HumaniTec
Book Review Library Session
Sheila Smyth
General Book Review
Sources
Book Review Digest: http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?&prod=BRD
Call number: Langson Ref Z 1219
B67
Indexes around
90 US and British periodicals. To be
included, a work must be published in
Coverage: 1905-present. (print)
Coverage: 1983-present. (online)
Book
Review Index: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/univca20?db=BRI
Call number: Langson Ref Z 1035.1
.B66 1986 & Langson Ref Z 1035 A1 B6
Cites reviews of books and periodicals from about 500 newspapers, periodicals,
and scholarly journals. Its strengths are finding reviews of fiction and nonfiction, reviews of scholarly works are hit and miss.
Coverage: 1965-present (print and online)
LION
(Literature Online): http://uclibs.org/PID/8191
Contains
book reviews for literature scholarship (esp. literature in English). To search,
click on "Criticism & Reference", then
change your search to "Criticism". From here type in the title of the
book as a keyword search and limit to "Reviews" below.
Coverage: 1917 – present
Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature:
http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/shared/shared_main.jhtml?_requestid=47060
Indexes general
interest, English language periodicals (about 174 to date). Book reviews from 1901-1904 are indexed under the name of
the author of the book; a subject entry is also given. After 1905, a listing of
citations to book reviews follows the main body of each volume. Citations are
listed under author reviewed.
Coverage: 1985-present
Reader's Guide Retrospective: http://uclibs.org/PID/21386
Complements
Reader's Guide (above) by covering early years of the most popular general-interest
periodicals published in the
Coverage: 1890 -1982
Expanded Academic ASAP: http://find.galegroup.com/itx/start.do?prodId=EAIM&userGroupName=ucirvine
Indexes articles from popular
magazines, general interest journals, and scholarly journals in the humanities,
social sciences, and general sciences.To search,
click on advanced search. In the first search box, type in the title of the
book and select "Title search". In the second box, enter
"review*" and use the "keyword" search.
Coverage: 1980-present.
JSTOR:
http://uclibs.org/PID/1980
Provides
searching and browsing access to the full text of back files of over 100 core
scholarly publications in dozens of academic disciplines, including Literature. Note: for many journals, does not include the latest 2-5
years, but often includes back issues from several decades past.
To search: enter in the title of the work as a full text search and click on
"review" in the “these types” field.
Web of Science: http://uclibs.org/PID/12610
One of the best
and quickest ways to obtain scholarly reviews of a book.
To obtain reviews:
1) Click on "General Search" 2) Under "Topic" enter the
title of the book. 3) Leave the author field blank. 4) Underneath "Set
Search Limits" look for the highlighted bar "All document
types." From this list, scroll down and select "Book Review."
Coverage: 1945-present
Periodicals Index Online (formerly PCI
Full Text): //uclibs.org/PID/6848
Indexes
periodicals from the humanities and social sciences. To search, enter the title of the book in the
"Article title keyword" field, and below limit to "Book Reviews
only". N.B. this database stops coverage in 1995.
Coverage: 1770-1995.
Language Specific Book Review Sources
IBR - International Bibliography of Book Reviews: http://gso.gbv.de/DB=2.14/LNG=EN/
Call number: Langson Bound
Periodicals Z 1002 I5
A good place to search to find reviews of works in
languages other than English. In the advanced search, you can search by title
of the work, the author of works, and the reviewer's name.
Coverage: (Print) 1971-1983; (Online) 1985-present
International Bibliography of
Periodical Literature (IBZ): http://gso.gbv.de/DB=2.4/LNG=EN/
Index of
periodical literature covering research from all fields of knowledge,
especially in the humanities and the social sciences. Over 11,000 periodicals are indexed by this multilingual
database. International in scope, it indexes a significant proportion the
periodicals published on the European continent.
To search: in the title field, type in the title of the book and then search.
HAPI Online: http://uclibs.org/PID/16242
Web version of the Hispanic
American Periodicals Index contains citations about Central and
To search: enter title of work and "reviewed."
Specific Subjects and Book Review Sources
Philosophers
Index: http://www.cdlib.org/inside/resources/choosecampus/philo.html
To search only book reviews,
perform an advanced search. In the first box, type "Book Review" in
the search box and select "Document Type" in the dropdown menu to the
right. In the search box underneath, type the title of the book and click
"search" to begin.
ATLA Religion Database:
http://uclibs.org/PID/105587
The ATLA Religion Database is the
premier index to journal articles book reviews and collections of essays in all
scholarly fields of religion Featuring articles written in 36 languages ATLA
includes over 400 000 article citations from over 1 400 journals 600 of which
are currently indexed It also provides bibliographic coverage of over 200 000
essay citations from 15 500 multi author works over 375 000 book reviews and
features 128 000 subject headings Product fact sheet page
International Index to Black
Periodicals Full Text: http://iibp.chadwyck.com/
More than 150
international scholarly and popular periodicals in Black studies.
Historical
abstracts: http://uclibs.org/PID/12775
Subject: Social sciences --
Abstracts -- Databases; History, Modern -- Abstracts --
Historical coverage of the
Index to Book Reviews in England, 1749-1774
Call number: Langson Reference Z 1035 A1 F67 1990
An index to reviews of 3023 works of poetry, fiction
and drama. This index covers the major review journals and major magazines of
the period.
Most of the journals and magazines indexed here can be found in the Microfilm
Set English Literary Periodicals (S 000 136), located in the Current
Periodicals Room in Langson Library
Index to Book Reviews in England, 1775-1800
Call number: Langson Reference Z 1035 A1 F675 1997
An index to reviews of 4,984 works of poetry, fiction
and drama. This index covers the major review journals and major magazines of
the period.
Most of the journals and magazines indexed here can be found in the Microfilm
Set English Literary Periodicals (S 000 136), located in the Current
Periodicals Room in Langson Library.
American Periodicals Series Online, 1740-1900:
http://uclibs.org/PID/16610
Includes
digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from
colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century.
To search: Click on advanced search. In the first box, select "article
type" and then enter review. In the second box, enter the author's last
name and title of the book. Now click search.
Book Reviews in Newspapers
America's
Newspapers: http://uclibs.org/PID/23120
Indexes many newspapers across the
To search: click on advanced search. In the first box,
enter "review*". In the second box, enter the title of the book and
the author's last name. Then press search. Tip -- start with the last results
first.
TLS: Times Literary
Supplement Centenary Archive:
Fully
searchable archive of the TLS in image format and full page context with the
identities of contributors who were published anonymously disclosed.
Coverage: 1902-1990
For 1881-1960, click here: http://uclibs.org/PID/10355
For 1985- present, click here: http://uclibs.org/PID/11379
New York Times:
For 1851-2001, click here: http://uclibs.org/PID/11381
For 2002-present, click here: http://uclibs.org/PID/11381
Early
American Newspapers: http://uclibs.org/PID/42513
Early American Newspapers features
cover-to-cover reproductions of hundreds of historic newspapers, providing more
than one million pages as fully text-searchable facsimile images.
Coverage: 1690-1820
African American
Newspapers: The 19th Century: http://www.accessible.com/search/prdcls.asp
Includes
Freedom’s Journal; The Coloured American; The North
Star; The National Era; Provincial Freeman; Frederick Douglass Paper; and The
Christian Recorder.
Reviews of Films
International Index to the Performing
Arts Full Text: http://uclibs.org/PID/31080
Index to journal
literature covering dance, film, performance art, opera, stagecraft, comedy,
magic, puppetry, and television. Browse
and search full-text periodicals like Cinema Journal, Cineaste, Black Camera,
Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Film Comment, Variety, and
Journal of Popular Culture.
To find reviews, select Search Articles, enter keywords and under document type
enter "book review," "dance review," "exhibit
review," "film review," "performance review,"
"television review," or select from list.
Film Review Annual
Call number: Langson Library Reference: PN1995.F465
Begun in 1984, reprints "important" reviews in their entirety from
such periodicals as Monthly Film Bulletin (until 1991), The New York Times, The
New York Post, The Los Angeles Times, Film Quarterly, Sight and Sound (which
absorbed Monthly Film Bulletin), Variety, and Village Voice. As with any annual
print publication, there is a lag time between theatrical release of a film and
the appearance of the reviews in this source. Each issue covers films released
the previous year.
Coverage: 1981 –
The New York Times Film Reviews
Call number: Langson Library Reference: PN1995.N4
Contains film reviews appearing in The New York Times reproduced in their
entirety. Has three separate indexes: title index,
personal name index, and corporate (studio name) index. Arranged
by date review appeared in the newspaper; important to know the year film
released.
Coverage: 1913 –
Variety Film Reviews
Call number: Langson Library Reference: PN1995.V34
Similar to The New York Times Film Reviews. Most recent volume (24) covers
reviews from 1995-1996. More recent reviews can be found in LexisNexis
Academic Universe (http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/)
(from
Coverage: 1907 -1995/6
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/humanitech/eval.html