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Book Review Library Session
Sheila
Smyth
Subject
Librarian:
Sheila Smyth
smyths@uci.edu
(949) 824 - 7021
General
Book Review Sources
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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)
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.
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
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
Complements
Reader's Guide (above) by covering early years of the most popular
general-interest periodicals published in the
Coverage: 1890 -1982
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
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.
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)
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
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)
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.
Web
version of the Hispanic American Periodicals Index contains citations about
Central and
To search: enter title of
work and "reviewed."
Subject
Specific Book
Review Sources
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.
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
More
than 150 international scholarly and popular periodicals in Black
studies.
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
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
Indexes
many newspapers across the
TLS: Times Literary Supplement Centenary
Archive
Fully
searchable archive of the
Coverage:
1902-1990
For
1881-1960
For 1985-
present
New
York Times
For
1851-2001
For 2002-present
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
Includes
Freedom’s Journal; The Colored 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
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
(from
Coverage: 1907 -1995/6
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form
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