Book Reviews

To find book reviews, you need the author and title of the book as well as the year of publication.  Generally, book reviews appear in the year or year after the book was published.  Not all books are reviewed and sometimes it takes a couple of years for a review to appear.  Most of the core political science journal article databases described earlier in this guide provide references to book reviews.  Academic Search Premier, JSTOR, and Project Muse are good first choices when looking for the full-text of reviews in scholarly political science journals.  In addition, you may need to consult one or more of the following:

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

Brings together the rich data of Book Review Digest, which includes descriptive summaries of books as well as excerpts from published reviews, with all the book review citations and full-text reviews of books from 11 other H.W. Wilson indexing services.  2002-current.

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

Book Review Index Plus  (All US JHU)

A comprehensive online guide to book reviews that includes more than five million review citations from thousands of publications, with linking to more than 630,000 full-text reviews.

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. 

New York Review of Books  (All US JHU)

Includes archival access back to 1963.

Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive  (All US JHU)

The Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive includes complete page images of the Times Literary Supplement (TLS), a leading book review periodical, from its inception in 1902 to 1994.

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