Online Databases

Print Indexes of book reviews

Periodicals featuring book reviews

Web Sites

• Academic Search Premier  - for reviews in a both scholarly and news sources.
• Book Index with Reviews  - for access to over 800,000 full-text searchable book reviews.
• JSTOR  - for full-text reviews published in scholarly journals. Use the limit function to limit to reviews.
• NoveList  - for reviews of popular fiction.
• Project Muse  - for full-text reviews published in scholarly journals.
• Research Library  for full-text reviews published in scholarly journals. Use the limit function to limit to reviews.

• Newspaper Source   - indexes and abstracts 32 national and regional newspapers.
• Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe  - Many types of publications including: newspapers (in English and many other languages), legal news, general interest magazines, etc. Check the literature rack at the Reference Desk for a handout on how to search Lexis-Nexis.
• ProQuest Newspapers  - Full text of major newspapers such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and others.

• EconLit 
• Microcomputer Abstracts 
• Business Source Complete 

• For all types of reviews, The New York Times  - use Advanced Search and choose article type "review"

• Book Review Digest: from Vol. 1 (1906) located at REFERENCE Z1219 .C95
• Book Review Index: from Vol. 1 (1965) located at REFERENCE Z1035.A1 B6
• National Library Service Cumulative Book Review Index 1905-1974: located at REFERENCE Z1035 .A1 N35 1975

• New York Times: from Vol. 1 (1913), located at REFERENCE AI21 .N45 NOTE: includes the New York Times Book Review which comes with the Sunday NY Times
• The Times Index (London): from 1790, located at REFERENCE AI21 .T46

• American Historical Review
  1895-1925 Microfilm;Oct 1923-1959 Request at Circulation Desk; 1960-1975 Magazine & Journal Area; 1976-1995 Microfilm
• Booklist
  Sep 1969-Present Microfilm (Recent issues may be in Magazine & Journal Area)
• Choice
  Mar 1964-Feb 1974 Magazine & Journal Area; Mar 1974-Present Microfilm (Recent issues may be in Magazine & Journal Area)
• Library Journal
  1930-1959 Request at Circulation Desk; 1960-Present Magazine & Journal Area
• Publisher's Weekly
  1930; Apr 1931-1959 Request at Circulation Desk; 1960-1973 Magazine & Journal Area; 1974-Present Microfilm (Recent issues may be in Magazine & Journal Area)
• School Library Journal
  1967-1971 Magazine & Journal Area; 1975-Present Microfilm (Recent issues may be in Magazine & Journal Area)

• Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
  Sep 1968-Present Magazine & Journal Area
• Horn Book Magazine
  Nov/Dec 1932; 1933-1936; 1938-1959 Request at Circulation Desk; 1960-1974 Magazine & Journal Area; 1975-Present Microfilm (Recent issues may be in Magazine & Journal Area)
• Horn book guide to children's and young adult books: from Vol. 6 (1994) located at REFERENCE Z1037.H67

• amazon.com - This Internet bookstore offers excerpts from a wide variety of reviews from published articles to personal opinion.
• Booklist - publication of the American Library Association