Research Guides: Book Reviews: Best Starting Places

Best Starting Places

The databases below cover many disciplines and are a great starting place for finding book reviews.

Book Review Digest Plus (EBSCO)
Indexes reviews of current fiction and non-fiction, and provides review excerpts and over 100,000 full text reviews. The database includes children’s books as well as books for adults and young adults. Dates of coverage: 1983 to present.
Book Review Digest Retrospective (EBSCO)
Provides excerpts from, and citations to, reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction. Reviews of the following types of books are excluded: government publications, textbooks, and technical books in the sciences and law. Dates of coverage: 1908-1982.
Nexis Uni
Nexis Uni (Formerly LexisNexis Academic Universe) provides access to full-text newspapers (U.S. and some international), news wires, transcripts, and trade journals.
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ProQuest Central
ProQuest Central is a large, multidisciplinary database with over 11,000 titles, with over 8,000 titles in full-text. It serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels in all markets. Over 160 subjects areas are covered extensively in this product including business and economics, health and medical, news and world affairs, technology, social sciences and more.
Readers' Guide Full Text Mega
Provides indexing and abstracting of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada, plus the full text of selected periodicals. Dates of coverage: 1983 to present.
Readers' Guide Retrospective (EBSCO)
Provides indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America.Dates of coverage: 1890-1982. Use the Readers' Guide Full Text for 1983 forward.

Newspapers and magazines with book reviews

Many newspapers and magazines include regular book review sections. A few of them are listed below; please also refer to the U.S. News Stories and Newspapers guide for links to the Libraries' holdings for more newspapers.

New York Times, 1980-present (via ProQuest)
Full-text coverage of the New York Times, 1980 to present.
New Yorker
Published weekly since 1925, The New Yorker features commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Covers New York City cultural life with news items, event listings, and reviews of museums, galleries, restaurants, and more.
Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive (TLS)
The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive contains every page of every copy of the Times Literary Supplement (TLS) published from 1902 to 2019. The database is searchable by author or contributor; the identities of the contributors to the TLS who were published anonymously until 1974 are disclosed for the first time and augmented by biographical sketches.

Print Indexes

The following print indexes are located in the Bobst Reference Collection unless noted otherwise.

Book Review Index by Gale Research Company
Call Number: Reference: Z1219 .B78 Non-circulating

Publication Date: 1965-
Combined retrospective index to book reviews in scholarly journals, 1886-1974 by Evan Ira Farber
Call Number: Z1035.A1 C6x Non-circulating

Publication Date: 1979-
G.K. Hall index to Black periodicals 2000-2005
Call Number: Reference: AI3 .I55 Non-circulating

Publication Date: 2000-2005
Index to Black Periodicals 1988-1999
Call Number: Reference: AI3 .I55 Non-circulating

Publication Date: 1988-1999