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.

America: History and Life (old version)  (All US JHU)

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

Book Review Digest Plus  (All JHU (incl. International))

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

Book Review Index Plus  (All US JHU)

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 Sciences.  H-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. 

JSTOR  (All US JHU)

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.

New York Review of Books  (All US JHU)

Periodicals Index Online  (All US JHU)

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.

Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive  (All US JHU)

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

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