Book Reviews

Reviews for Popular Books

MasterFile Premier: Gives reviews of books published mostly after 1990. About half of the articles included are full-text online.

Gives full text of book reviews in U.S. and international newspapers.

Subject Databases
Web of Science: Book review in the sciences, social sciences, humanities and arts..
JSTOR: Try JSTOR for reviews of "landmark" books in many disciplines.

Internet Quick Reference: Book Info & Reviews: A set of links from the Indiana University Libraries.
H-Net Review Project: Maintained at Michigan State University browse academic book reviews by author, title, subject or reviewer.
AcqWeb Directory of Book Reviews on the Web: A clearinghouse of sources to find book reviews.
Amazon.com: Many listings include brief reviews by professional review journals, readers, or amazon staff.
Salon.com: A highly-rated online journal that includes interviews with authors of literary fiction, as well as regular reviews.

International Index to Periodicals, 1955-1965: REF KNIGHT AI 3 .R49
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Social Sciences & Humanities Index, 1965-1974: Humanities Index: REF KNIGHT AI 3 .H85
Social Sciences Index: REF KNIGHT AI 3 .S62
Subject Index to Periodicals, 1915-1961: REF KNIGHT AI 3 .A72
British Humanities Index, 1962-present: REF KNIGHT AI 3 .B7
An Index to Book Reviews in the Humanities, 1960-1990: REF KNIGHT Z1035.A1I63
Index to Book Reviews in Historical Periodicals, 1972-1977: REF KNIGHT Z6205.B73
Index to Book Reviews in England, 1749-1774: REF KNIGHT Z1035.A1 F67
Africana Book Reviews, 1885-1945 : An Index to Books Reviewed in selected English-language publications: REF KNIGHT Z3501.E35
Works in African history : an index to reviews, 1960-1982: KNIGHT Z3508.H5H46
A guide to critical reviews of United States fiction, 1870-1910: REF KNIGHT Z1225 .E35

19th Century Masterfile: Covers magazine and newspaper articles, 1802-1906.
Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals, 1886-1974: REF KNIGHT Z1035.A1C64
The New York Times Book Review Index, 1896-1970: REF KNIGHT AP2.N6582
Covers reviews published in the New York Times Book Review (an insert of the Sunday New York Times.)
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature: REF KNIGHT AI 3 .R48
A print index covering 1900-present. It is the complete index to 150-200 of the most widely circulated American periodicals. After 1976, includes a separate section of book reviews at the end of each volume. Available online for the years 1959-1982.
The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900: REF KNIGHT AI 3 .W45
This publication is an issue-by-issue list of the contents of 43 major periodicals. It includes an index of the authors of articles and reviews, but it does not index by the author of the book reviewed. Reviews written by a given author can easily be found by looking in the cumulated index of authors in volume 5; the only way to find reviews of a specific book is to scan the entries starting in the year it was published.

Bulletin de Critique du Livre Francais (French): REF KNIGHT Z2165 .B924; Contains short reviews for new French books from all subject areas. Three main subject areas: Literature, Science and Technology, and Social Sciences. Updated monthly, and each issue contains a select list of new French paperbacks.
Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen Wissenschaftlicher Literatur (International; German organization): (aka, IBR or International bibliography of book reviews of scholarly literature); KNIGHT Z5051.I64; Reviews scholarly works not published in English. German keywords are used to organize reviews by subject; keyword, author, and reviewer indexes are also provided. A valuable source for finding reviews of non-English language titles.

Maintained by: Barbara Jenkins, jenkins@uoregon.edu
Last Modified: 10/05/2010