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Book Reviews

Finding book reviews requires some knowledge of the title, the subject of the book, the audience of the book, and the date of publication.

1954 - current. Includes citations to book reviews for titles on U.S. and Canadian history.

1983 - current. Brings together the rich data of Book Review Digest, which includes descriptive summaries of books and excerpts from published reviews, with all the book review citations and full-text reviews from 11 other H. W. Wilson indexing services.                                                                   

Book Review Digest.  1906-2001.  MSEL GEN REF Z1219 .B78

1965 - current.  An online guide to book reviews.

Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Humanities Journals, 1802-1974.
MSEL GEN REF A13 .C55 1982 Quarto

Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals, 1886-1974.
MSEL GEN REF Z1035 .A1 C685 1979 Quarto

H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social SciencesH-Net (Humanities and Social Sciences Online).
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/ An online scholarly review resource that provides access to reviews published on electronic discussion networks hosted by H-Net. 

Includes full-text of over 40 history journals from the inception of each title to a moving wall of 3 to 5 years prior to the present.


Journal date of inception - 1995.  Search the table of contents of more than 4500 journals in the humanities and social sciences spanning over 300 years and over 40 languages.

Want to know more?  See MSEL's How to Find Book Reviews guide.

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