Index of scholarly and popular book reviews of English-language fiction and nonfiction for children and adults from 1982 to present.
"Indexes book reviews of English-language fiction and nonfiction books for children and adults, from over 8000 leading magazines from the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. Includes several thousand full text reviews. For book reviews published from 1905 to 1982 go to Book Review Digest Retrospective which can be searched separately or simultaneously."
Index of scholarly and popular book reviews of English-language fiction and nonfiction for children and adults from 1905 to 1982.
Over a million reviews of more than 300,000 books. For access to book reviews written since 1983, search Book Review Digest Plus which can be searched separately or simultaneously.
Provides access to content of numerous print counterparts including Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography.
Contemporary Reviews (Historical)
To find contemporary book reviews:
Go to Start Your Search or other humanities and newspaper databases.
As a keyword search, enter the name of the author and, if applicable, the title of the novel.
Narrow your results to the date of the book’s publication + a few years forward
Narrow your results to “Reviews” or “Book Reviews" OR narrow your results to newspapers and magazines.
Example:
To find reviews of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse:
Search for: “Virginia Woolf” AND “To the Lighthouse”
Narrow to date range: 1927-1937
Narrow results to “Reviews”.
To evaluate more resource, remove "Reviews" limit and narrow to "Magazines" instead.
Archive of major American newspapers dating back to the 18th century.
A newspaper digital archive offering full-text and full-image articles for significant US newspapers. Our subscription includes access to Chicago Defender (1910-1975); Chicago Tribune (1849-1990); Los Angeles Times (1881-1990); The New York Times (1851-2010) with Index (1851-1993); San Francisco Chronicle (1865-1922); The Wall Street Journal (1889-1996); and The Washington Post (1877-1997).
Hundreds of full-run scholarly journals in the arts, humanities and social sciences. (Periodicals Contents Index)
An online periodical archive that provides access to some 475 digitized journals in the humanities and social sciences. A sister database, Periodicals Index Online, provides additional indexing for articles in over 4,700 periodicals. Interface change: as of June 2013, available via the ProQuest interface.
