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Resources for finding reviews of books, past and present.

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Full Text Reviews

Academic Search Complete
1975 - present
Nexis Uni
from 1980 - present
Choice Reviews
on-campus only

Reviews in Newspapers

Times Digital Archive, 1765-2010
The Times of London, 1785-2006

Citations & Abstracts of Reviews - use the Find It! button to get full text

MLA International Bibliography
1963 - present
Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 (H.W. Wilson)
1890-1982
Periodicals Index Online (PIO)
1665-1995
Web of Science
Try "Cited Reference" search

Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals [social sciences]
Clapp Ref Z1035.A1 C64 - 1886-1974
Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Humanities Journals
Clapp Ref Z1035.A1 C63 1982 - 1886-1974
Book Review Index
Describes reviews from 1965-2010. Clapp Ref Z 1035 .A1B6.

Find Book Reviews in SuperSearch

Book Review Journals

New York Review of Books
1963-present, in Opinion Archives
New York Times Book Reviews
1981-present
London Review of Books
on campus only - September 2000-present; 1981-four years ago in microfilm

TLS Historical Archive
All issues of the Times Literary Supplement from 1902 to 5 years ago.

Find Reviews in Books

tip: in the library catalog, do a subject search for your author, then click on "[author] -- criticism & interpretation"
if it's not in our catalog, click on the WorldCat button to search WorldCat and request a copy

Key Websites

H-Net Reviews
scholarly reviews in the humanities & social sciences
Arts & Letters Daily
AcqWeb's Directory of Book Reviews on the Web