Source, Location, and Coverage	Notes and/or Searching Tips
Article First via First Search Covers 1990 to date	Searching tips: (1) Choose Advanced Search. (2) Enter the title of the book and change the default to Title. (3) In a separate box, enter book review and leave default as Keyword.
Expanded Academic ASAP Covers 1980 to date	From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Includes access to scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images! Searching tips: (1) Select Advanced Search. (2) Enter the title of the book. (3) Enter the author of the book. (4) Add key word (ke) book review.
Lexis Nexis Academic Coverage varies depending upon source	LN Academic Universe picks up newspapers and magazines/journals from around the world. Searching tips: (1) Choose News, then General News. (2) Type the book title in the "keyword" box. (3) Type the author's last name in the "narrow search with additional terms" box. (4) From the Source pull-down menu, choose Major Newspapers or Magazines & Journals. (5) From the Date pull-down menu, choose the appropriate time frame. (Note) If you click on Source List, you can review what newspapers or journals are covered and when coverage starts.
New York Times via Infotrac last 365 days	Provides full text of book reviews published in the last 365 days. Searching tips: (1) Choose Advanced Search. (2) Choose keyword search (ke) and type book review (3) Choose title search (ti) and type keyword from book title (Example:) ke book review AND ti war
New York Times, 1851-2003	Provides full text of book reviews. Searching tips: (1)enter author's name or title of book and limit by date or (2)type "book reviews" in search box, choose citations & abstracts, and type in date range to browse.
Newspaper Abstracts via First Search 1989 to date	Most newspapers contain book reviews from time to time. This database covers 25 U.S. and regional newspapers such as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal. Searching tips: (1) Choose Advanced Search (2) Type in the title and change the default to title. (3) In the limit section, select Book Review in the Article Type field Note: Once you have identified a source, you can look for full text copy either in Electronic Resources - Electronic Newspapers or Lexis Nexis Academic Universe.
Periodicals Index Online Formerly called Periodical Contents Index Covers 1770 to 1995	PCI indexes the contents of older issues of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. Searching tips: (1) Choose Search. (2) Enter the title of the book in title keyword field. (3) In the scope section, limit to book reviews only.
ProQuest Research Library Covers 1970 on; however the majority of records begin in the 1990s	Includes full text of some book reviews. Searching tips: (1) Select all databases or the module relevant for the subject of the book. (2) Choose Guided Search. Enter the title of the book and change the default to article title. (3) Choose book review for Article Type and periodicals for Publication Type. (4) If necessary, choose the backfile or deep backfile.
Readers' Guide Abstracts via FirstSearch Covers 1983 to date	Searching tips: (1) Choose the Advanced Search screen. (2) Enter the title of the book and change the default to Title or Title phrase. (3) If known, enter the author's last name and change the default to Author. (4) In the limit section, choose Book Review under Record Type.
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature Main Library Reference (1 East) AI3 .R48 Covers 1976 to date	Searching tips: Look for the Book Reviews section at the end of each volume starting in 1976. Arranged alphabetically by the author of the book being reviewed.
Wilson Select Plus via FirstSearch Covers 1994 to date	Book reviews are provided as full text articles when available. Searching tips: (1) Choose Advanced Search. (2) Enter the title of the book and change the default to Title. (3) In the limit section, choose Book Review under Record Type.

Source, Location, and Coverage	Notes and/or Searching Tips
America, History and Life 1964 to date	Searching tips: (1) Choose Advanced Search option. (2) In the Title field, enter the title of the book. (3) In the Document Type field, enter book review. (4) Click on the Display Full Entry button to review abstract
Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature Also called ABELL 1920 to date	ABELL contains 860,000 records, covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews and collections of essays published anywhere in the world. Searching tips: (1) Choose individual collections. (2) Choose ABELL. (3) Click on search. (4) Limit to reviews
Art Abstracts via FirstSearch 1984 to date	Searching tips: (1) Choose Advanced Search. (2) Enter the title of the book and change the default to Title. (3) In the limit section, choose Book Review under Record Type.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index via Institute for Scientific Information's Web of Science 1977 to date	Searching tips: (1) Click on ISI Web of Knowledge. (2) Choose Full Search. (3) Select years and database. (4) Choose General Search. (5) Type keywords from the title or the author's name in the Topic field. (6) Choose Book Review as the Document Type at the bottom.
Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Humanities Journals Main Library Reference (1 East) AI3 .C652 1802-1974	Indexes more than 150 journals. Searching tips: Arranged alphabetically by author's last name with a separate title index (volume X).
H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences Unrestricted access via the World Wide Web. Current	An interface to an online scholarly review database of book, software, multimedia, exhibit, and film reviews which are published via the H-Net network of e-lists and hosted by Michigan State University.
Humanities Abstracts via FirstSearch 1984 to date	Searching tips: (1) Choose Advanced Search. (2) Enter the title of the book and choose the default Title. (3) In the limit section, choose Book Review under Record Type.
Index to Book Reviews in the Humanities Main Library Stacks Z1035 .A1 I5 1960 to 1990	Indexes 200-500 periodicals for book reviews in the arts and humanities. Searching tips: Reviews are listed only by author. Note that journal titles are sometimes listed by code numbers; be sure to identify the journal names by using the separate list of code numbers.
Religious Studies Review Most recent issues are available in Current Periodicals; bound volumes are available in the Main Library Stacks under the call number Z7753 .R38 1975 to date	Quarterly publication. The most comprehensive English-language review of books in religion, religious studies, and theology. A network of more than 100 scholar-reviewers and area editors assures competent scholarly commentary. Annually contains about twenty-five major review essays and over a thousand brief reviews, and listing of doctoral dissertations in progress and completed at member schools of the Council on Graduate Studies in Religion.
Reviews in American History Unrestricted access via the World Wide Web. Current	Reviews in American History provides an effective means for scholars and students of American history to stay up to date in their discipline. Each issue presents in-depth reviews of over thirty of the newest books in American history. Retrospective essays examining landmark works by major historians are also regularly featured. The journal covers all areas of American history including economics, military history, women in history, law, political history and philosophy, religion, social history, intellectual history, and cultural history. Readers can expect continued coverage of both traditional and new subjects of American history, always blending the recognition of recent developments with the ongoing importance of the core matter of the field. Vol. 23 (1995) to date available on this web page; MSU faculty and students can access vols. 1-22 (1973-1994) via Project JSTOR.
RILM Abstracts of Musical Literature via FirstSearch 1969 to date	Searching tips: (1) Choose Advanced Search. (2) Enter title and choose the title default. (3) In the limit section, choose Review under Record Type
Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900	Useful for locating reviews of English books originally published from 1824-1900. Searching tips: (1) Click on magnifying glass icon on the tool bar. (2) In the "search for" box, put in the name of the author you are interested in. (3) Double click on an entry of interest and close the search results box. (4) Note the citation within the journal. (5) Scroll up to find the volume number and date. On the bar at the left is highlighted the name of the journal. (6) Check Magic to see if we carry the journal.

Source, Location, and Coverage	Notes and/or Searching Tips
Asian Review of Books Unrestricted access via the World Wide Web. Current	The Asian Review of Books is a new on-line publication specialising not just in books published in Asia but also on international titles of particular interest to readers in Asia. The Review also provides access to selected reviews in leading international publications. The Review is produced by Paddyfield.com and Chameleon Press, an independent literary publisher based in Hong Kong and the publisher of dim sum, Asia's literary journal. Reviewers come from the community: professionals and others with expertise who can discuss books from the Asian point of view.
Black Issues Book Review Available via Proquest Jan/Feb 1999 to date	The Black Issues Book Review index will assist you in researching books, stories, authors, statistics, reviews, commentaries, and other important issues related to black books.
EconLit via FirstSearch 1969 to date	Searching tips: (1) Choose Advanced Search. (2) Enter title and choose the title default. (3) In the limit section, choose Book Review under Record Type
Education Abstracts via FirstSearch 1983 to date	Searching tips: (1) Choose Advanced Search. (2) Enter title and choose the title default. (3) In the limit section, choose Book Review under Record Type
Index to Legal Periodicals via FirstSearch 1981 to date	Searching tips: (1) Choose Advanced Search. (2) Enter title and choose the title default. (3) In the limit section, choose Book Review under Record Type
Law and Politics Book Review Unrestricted access via the World Wide Web. Current	The Law and Politics Book Review is sponsored by the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association. Being published on the Internet, its readers receive the reviews automatically in their e-mail box upon publication. The Section has a membership of almost 900 and presently sends the Review to over 1,300 readers in 39 countries. The electronic medium enables us to review almost every book about the legal process and politics, to do longer reviews than are usually published, and to make the reviews available within six months of our receipt of the book. The review presently remains available for an indefinite period on the Review's World Wide Web home page.
LegalTrac via InfoTrac 1980 to date	Searching tips: (1) Choose LegalTrac. (2) In the "subject guide search" box, type book review for a complete list of all law book reviews. You can limit by date or journal name if you prefer. (3) For a more focused search, select "keyword search" and add another keyword/s to book review to narrow your results. You can also limit by date or journal name with this option as well.
Physical Education Index Main Library Reference (1 East) GV201 .P534 1978 to date	Provides comprehensive coverage for dance, health, physical education, physical therapy, recreation, sports and sports medicine. Extensively indexes the periodical literature of biomechanics-kinesiology, coaching, facilities, measurement-evaluation, motor learning, perception, physical fitness, research, sport psychology, sport sociology, teaching methods, training, and all sports activities. Searching tips: Each issue includes a separate book review section after the subject index. Book reviews are arranged alphabetically by author.
Political Review Net Unrestricted access via the World Wide Web. Current	Political ReviewNet brings together a comprehensive and authoritative collection of book reviews in political science and international relations. It features reviews written by acknowledged experts for some of the world's finest journals. From the general to the specialist, from introductory undergraduate texts to ground-breaking research, Political ReviewNet will be your guide to all that's new in political science and international relations. Courtesy of Blackwell Publishing.
Political Studies Review Unrestricted access via the World Wide Web. Current	This journal is an offshoot of the leading political science journal Political Studies published by the Political Studies Association. Political Studies Review aims to publish cutting edge review articles and book reviews. The Web site contains the full text of all recent reviews that have appeared in Political Studies up until the launch date of Political Studies Review and will continue to maintain an archive. Books reviewed cover all aspects of politics including: public administration, electoral systems, globalization, international relations, political theory, political policy, political parties and comparative politics. The book reviews database can be searched by author, title, reviewers' name or keyword. It also has a browsable subject index. British focus.
Social Sciences Abstracts via FirstSearch 1983 to date	Searching tips: (1) Choose Advanced Search. (2) Enter title and choose the title default. (3) In the limit section, choose Book Review under Record Type.
Social Sciences Citation Index 1977 to date	Searching tips: (1) Choose Full Search. (2) Select years and database. (3) Choose General Search. (4) Type keywords from the title or the author's name in the Topic field. (5) Choose Book Review as the Document Type.
Sociological Abstracts via CSA 1963 to date	Searching tips: Under advanced search, (1) choose publiction type from drop down menu and manually type in "book review". (2) you may want to add a keyword like crime to narrow down the results. Under quick search, (1) type pt=review and encyclopedia or some other concept to narrow down the results
Wilson Business Abstracts via FirstSearch 1983 to date	Searching tips: (1) Choose Advanced Search. (2) Enter title and choose the title default. (3) In the limit section, choose Book Review under Record Type

Source, Location, and Coverage	Notes and/or Searching Tips
Applied Science and Technology Abstracts via FirstSearch 1983 to date	Searching tips: (1) Choose Advanced Search. (2) Enter title and choose the title default. (3) In the limit section, choose Book Review under Record Type
Biological and Agricultural Index via FirstSearch 1984 to date	Searching tips: (1) Choose Advanced Search. (2) Enter title and choose the title default. (3) In the limit section, choose Book Review under Record Type
General Sciences Abstracts via FirstSearch 1983 to date	Searching tips: (1) Choose Advanced Search. (2) Enter title and choose the title default. (3) In the limit section, choose Book Review under Record Type
Science Citation Index 1977 to date	Searching tips: (1) Choose Full Search (2) Select years and database (3) Choose General Search (4) Type keywords from the title or the author's name in the Topic field (5) Choose Book Review as the Document Type

Source and Location	Notes
AcqWeb's Directory of Book Reviews on the Web Unrestricted access via the World Wide Web. Coverage varies depending on source.	Provides links to the web versions of periodicals and other resources that contain substantial numbers of book reviews. Web sites have to be actively maintained and the authors have to be experienced reviewers or subject experts. Broken out into subject areas.
Barnes and Noble's Online Book Reviews Unrestricted access via the World Wide Web Coverage varies depending on source.	Provides access to the following resources: New York Review of Books' Readers Catalog New York Review of Books Linguafranca: the review of academic life New York Times Book Review ForeWord Online: the magazine of independent publishing, news, reviews, and more Book: the magazine for the reading life Poets & Writers Online New Yorker: Book Currents QBR.Com: The Black Book Review online New Republic Online
Booklist, including Reference Books Bulletin Unrestricted access via the World Wide Web	Welcome to the digital counterpart of the American Library Association's Booklist magazine. For more than 90 years, Booklist has been the librarian's leading choice for reviews of the latest books and (more recently) electronic media. Every year we review nearly 4,000 books for adults, more than 2,500 titles for children, more than 500 reference books and electronic reference tools, and 1,000 other audiovisual materials. For book readers bored with the limited selection of reviews available in daily newspapers and mass-market magazines, here is your source for more current, more concise information on a wider range of new books. Also includes a cumulative index for the print Booklist magazine.
Complete Review Unrestricted access via the World Wide Web	It's summer reading time. Pick your next book by visiting The Complete Review, which offers charts summarizing major critics' reviews of more than 900 books and plays. Its eclectic mix of best-sellers and classics is guaranteed to contain something that you'll enjoy. Find out how 30 different critics rated Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections (he scored an A overall), or read excerpts from the reviews to get a consensus view on the book's strengths and weaknesses. You can also search by grade to see the site's top picks, or by author nationality if you'd like to give your reading list a particular cultural slant. Annotation from Yahoo! Internet Life, August 1, 2002.
E-Streams Unrestricted access via the World Wide Web Vol. 1, no. 1, January 1998 to date.	Provides electronic reviews of science & technology works covering engineering, agriculture, medicine and science. A collaborative venture between H. Robert Malinowsky of the University of Illinois at Chicago and YBP Library Services.
Foreign Affairs Book Reviews Unrestricted access via the World Wide Web	Provides foreign affairs book reviews from the journal Foreign Affairs. Browse by author or title or by region of the world.
New York Review of Books Unrestricted access via the World Wide Web.	Full text of most recent issues. Covers both fiction and nonfiction. Note paper copies are available in Current Periodicals (2 West) by title; earlier issues from volume 1, 1963, on are available in the Main Library Stacks under the call number Z1007 .N45.
The Women's Review of Books Unrestricted access via the World Wide Web.	The Women's Review of Books appears monthly (except August). We publish reviews of new books by and about women, in all fields, including non-fiction, fiction and poetry. We've been called "a lifeline" and "more than a guide to good reading--a monitor of the currents in contemporary feminism." Paper copies are available in Current Periodicals under the title and older issues from volume 1, 1983 on are available in the Oversize Book Collection in the basement.
Yale Review of Books Unrestricted access via the World Wide Web.	Provides full text of the last four issues. Covers both fiction and nonfiction. "The oldest undergraduate book review in the nation, a quarterly publication distributed on and around Yale campus and in bookstores and coffeehouses in New Haven, Connecticut. Each issue of the YRB contains book reviews penned by members of the Yale community, interviews with noted authors, as well as essays about literature and matters of contemporary import.