Research Guides: Comparative Literature: Finding Book Reviews

Recommended Starting Places for Book Reviews

Book Review Digest Plus (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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) This link opens in a new window
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.
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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 This link opens in a new window
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.

More Book Review Sources

Access World News This link opens in a new window
Access World News provides the html full text and, for some titles, the pdf "as printed" visual representation, of articles from a variety of national and international news sources, including newspapers, digital-native news websites, television and radio transcripts, blogs, college and university newspapers, journals, magazines, and some audio and video. Most international titles are English language. Dates of coverage vary from title to title, but primarily span the late 20th century to present.
African Newspapers This link opens in a new window
The African Newspapers database includes 19th and 20th century newspapers, and offers access to diverse titles from Africa across a range of academic disciplines.
Chinese Modern Newspapers and Periodicals This link opens in a new window
The database of Chinese Modern Newspapers and Periodicals includes the full-text of Chinese periodicals from the late Qing Dynasty and Republican period.
After logging in using IP authentication (no username or password necessary), select "要刊编" and then "中国近代报刊库(要刊)" to access the database. Note: The default setting is 典海 Ancient Classics. But, if you click on this instead: 百年 Modern Documents, you get to 中國近代要刊庫. Then you can click, Login.
Historical Newspapers (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Search the PDF full text and image archives of more than 100 major U.S. and African American newspapers.

Highlights include: Atlanta Constitution (1868-1945), Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003), Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988), Chicago Tribune (1849-1986), Christian Science Monitor (1908-2004), Los Angeles Times (1881-1995), New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002), The Chicago Defender (1910 - 1975), The New York Times (1851-2014), The New York Tribune (1841-1922), The New York Tribune (1900-1910), San Francisco Chronicle (1869-1922), The Wall Street Journal (1889-2000), The Washington Post (1877-2001), St. Petersburg Times / Tampa Bay Times (1901-2009), Korea Times (1956-2016)
Latin American Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Latin American Newspapers Series 1 includes 19th and 20th-century newspapers with access to diverse titles from Latin America, across a broad range of academic disciplines.
Latin American Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Latin American Newsstream allows users to search within a selection of current and recent full-text Latin American newspapers and newswires covering international and Latin American regional topics.
The Nation Archive Premium Edition (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
The Nation Archive Premium Edition contains indexing, abstracting, and full text for the complete archive of The Nation, beginning with its first issue in 1865 all the way to the present. The Nation is America’s oldest weekly magazine and one if its premier journals of opinion since its inception in 1865.
New York Times, 1980-present (via ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Full-text coverage of the New York Times, 1980 to present.
Readers' Guide Full Text Mega This link opens in a new window
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) This link opens in a new window
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.
South Asian Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Search Newsbank World Newspaper Archive South Asian Newspapers -- these include the Ceylon Observer, Kayasare hinda, Leader, and the Madras Mail
Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive (TLS) This link opens in a new window
The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive contains every page of every copy of the Times Literary Supplement (TLS) published from 1902 to 2011. 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.

New York Times Book Review

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Database search tips

Here are some tips for better search results in databases.

This usage works on most databases, but check 'Help' sections for supported search syntax.

Boolean: (using operators: and, or, not)

mother AND father searches for occurrences of both words within scope defined.
mother OR father searches for one or all, but both are not required.
mother NOT father searches for occurrences of the word ‘mother’ without use of the word ‘father.’
(mother NOT father) AND god searches for occurrences of the word ‘mother’ without use of the word ‘father,’ then also requires the word ‘god.’

Truncation:

art* (asterisk as truncation character) searches for art, arts, artistic, artful, etc.

Wildcard:

m?n (question mark as wildcard character) searches for man and men.