Book Reviews: Multidisciplinary Book Review Sources

General or Multidisciplinary Book Reviews

Academic Search Complete (ASC)
Use Advanced Search, limiting document type to Book Review. Note that Film Review and Poetry Review are also selectable document types.
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Choice Reviews Online
Reviews of academic books, electronic media and internet resources.
Access note: Timeout will occur after 15 minutes of inactivity.
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JSTOR
Fulltext archive of core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences, as well as 19th century British pamphlets. A unique e-journal database of complete backfiles of core scholarly journals in the arts and sciences.
From Advanced Search, narrow by Item Type "Reviews".
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Project MUSE
Access to the full text of high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from scholarly publishers. MUSE is also the sole source of complete, full-text versions of titles from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies.
From Advanced Search, choose Content Type "Reviews".
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Web of Science Core Collection
Collection of nine citation databases, providing abstracts and indexing and cited reference searching to over 10,000 high impact scholarly research journals.
Perform your search. On the Results page, refine your results to "Book Review" under Document Types on the left-hand side, and then click Refine.
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Google Scholar
You can find the Library's full text holdings in Google Scholar. Just look for the "Get it @ USask Library" link on the right side of the screen, beside each search result.
Access Note: To enable the "Get it @ USask Library" link on your home computer: On the Google Scholar page navigate to "Settings" > "Library links" > Search for University of Saskatchewan > Ensure the checkbox is marked > Save.
This is an Open Access resource freely available on the Internet.

Online Book Reviews Published before 1980

This database is the best online resource to search for book reviews published between 1903 and 1982:

Book Review Digest Retrospective: 1903-1982 (H.W. Wilson)
A database providing excerpts from and citations to adult and juvenile literature across all disciplines and subjects, published between 1903-1982 in H.W. Wilson's Book Review Digest.
Access is restricted to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Saskatchewan, and walk-in users, for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use. Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content is not permitted by Canadian and international copyright law.

Other useful databases for finding older book reviews:

Gale OneFile CPI.Q
A full text database of articles from Canadian and International journals, magazines and reference content from Gale, all with a Canadian focus.
From the Advanced Search page, go to the Select Document Type(s) drop-down and choose Book Review
Access is restricted to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Saskatchewan, and walk-in users, for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use. Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content is not permitted by Canadian and international copyright law.
JSTOR
Fulltext archive of core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences, as well as 19th century British pamphlets. A unique e-journal database of complete backfiles of core scholarly journals in the arts and sciences.
From Advanced Search, narrow by Item Type "Reviews".
Access is restricted to current students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University of Saskatchewan, and walk-in users, for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use. Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content is not permitted by Canadian and international copyright law.

General Source

NoveList Plus
A reader's advisory service for adult fiction and non-fiction in English that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, series information, curriculum material, and much more.
Access is restricted to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Saskatchewan, and walk-in users, for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use. Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content is not permitted by Canadian and international copyright law.

Older Reviews

Book Review Index
Murray Library Z1035 .A1B72
Selects reviews from a much broader range of periodicals than Book Review Digest. Arranged alphabetically by author's last name with a title index at the back. Journal titles are abbreviated. Full titles are listed at the front and back of each volume.
1965 to present.

Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals: 1800-1900. Series 3
Subject-inclusive, language-inclusive bibliography of 73,000 publications, 68,000 personal names, 6,300 issuing bodies, 2,400 publishing towns, 23,000 title pages, 2,000 subjects.
Access is restricted to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Saskatchewan, and walk-in users, for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use. Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content is not permitted by Canadian and international copyright law.

The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals
Murray Library Z2005 .H83 1966
Vols. 1-4 list the contents of 43 British periodicals. To find reviews, scan the tables of contents of each journal starting at the year of publications and look for the title of the book you are looking for.
1824-1900