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Book Review Resources

Subject Icon Subject Specialist:Joseph Deodato
Email:joseph.deodato@csi.cuny.edu
Telephone:718-982-4008

Table of Contents:
Databases
Internet Resources and Web sites


Search databases and indexes to find citations and/or full text articles online.

Academic Search Complete
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Large multi-disciplinary database providing abstracts and select full text of scholarly and popular publications in a wide variety of subject disciplines. To search for book reviews, type in the title of the book and select "book review" as your document type in the search limits.


Book Review Digest Plus
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Citations and select full text of fiction and non-fiction book reviews published since 1983. Encompasses more than one million reviews covering over 550,000 books.


JSTOR
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Full text scholarly journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. To search for book reviews, type in author name and book title and limit document type to "Review."


Lexis-Nexis Academic
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Search Lexis-Nexis to find book reviews published in U.S. newspapers and magazines.


New York Times Historical
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Search for book reviews published in the New York Times from 1851 to 2005. Click on "Advanced Search" and select "review" as your document type. Recent issues available thru Lexis-Nexis.


Project MUSE
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Full-text articles from scholarly journals in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. To search for book reviews, type the book title and check "Reviews Only" under Type of Content.


Resources freely available on the Internet.

AcqWeb's Directory of Book Reviews on the Web
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Large directory of book review websites categorized by subject. Includes fiction, history, science, reference, and children's books.


H-Net Reviews
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Reviews of scholarly books in the humanities and social sciences.


New York Times Book Review
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Search New York Times book reviews from 1981 to present.


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