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Introduction

Before you attempt to locate your book review you will need to know your book’s date of publication (as well as the author and title of your book). Keep in mind that many books undergo revisions and are often republished as new editions many years after the initial publication date.

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Book Reviews - Print Resources

When utilizing print indexes, in addition to checking the year that your book was published, be sure to check the years before and after as well. Each journal and newspaper has its own policy for when it chooses to publish its book reviews. Once you locate the reviews for your book be sure to write down as many full citations as necessary. If you are working with Book Review Digest or Book Review Index remember to consult the "periodical abbreviations" or "publications indexed" pages in the front of each volume to obtain the full titles for the periodicals reviewing your book. Then, search the HELIN Library Catalog to see if URI owns the periodicals that you need.

Book review digest

Call Number: URI Reference Z1219 .C96 ; CCE Index Z1219 .C96

A year-by-year index searchable by author or title. Each book's title entry is followed by abstracts from periodicals that have reviewed it.

Book review index

Call Number: URI Reference Z1035 .A1 B6 ; CCE Index Area

A year-by-year index searchable by author or title. Each book's title entry is followed by citations to articles that have reviewed it.

Book Reviews - Electronic Resources

Literature Resource Center (Gale)
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors. Includes work overviews, plot summaries, and explications.
Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost)
Full text for over 8,500 journals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. Covers topics including: archaeology, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, and other fields. Updated daily. Coverage varies, but generally covers the mid 1990s - present.
Book Review Digest Retrospective (EBSCOhost)
Provides excerpts from, and citations to, reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction. 1908-1982.
LexisNexis Academic


News, law, and business information service. Includes news from national and international newspapers; wire services and articles from hundreds of periodicals; and a number of other reference sources. All sources are full-text. Updated daily.
National Newspapers (4) (ProQuest)
Indexing, abstracts, and full text of The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the Christian Science Monitor. Coverage varies by publication but generally begins in 1980s. Updated daily.
New York Times Article Archive
Search the complete backfile of The New York Times by keyword, author, or headline. Includes articles, advertisements, and listings through 1995; articles only after 1995. Full content in PDF format (1851-1995) or text-only format (1996-) may be purchased online. (Note that articles are also available on microfilm in many libraries and online in library databases.) 1851-. Updated daily.

Subject-Specific Book Reviews

The reference collection at the URI Library includes many subject-specific book review finding resources. To locate the ones necessary to your research do a keyword search in the HELIN Library Catalog typing in phrases such as "humanities and book reviews" or "science and book reviews".