Guide to English Language & Literature

Book Reviews

Although the MLA International Bibliography is the pre-eminent index to scholarly literary research, it does not provide access to evaluative "book reviews" that appear in review journals or popular magazines. The sources listed here will give better access to book reviews.

Online:

• ArticleFirst - Online Database.

Records describing items in nearly 13,000 journals. 1990 to date. Updated daily.

• Black Literature, 1827-1940 - Online Database.

Indexes African-American periodicals, 1827 to 1940 on microfilm: PS508.N3B43
Available only in the Hodges Library.

• Book Review Digest - Online Database.

Indexes reviews of current English-language fiction and non-fiction. 1983 to the present.
See also print copy: HODGES Reference Z1219.C96

• Humanities Abstracts - Online Database.

Indexes and abstracts articles from 400 English-language periodicals in the fields of archaeology and classical studies,art, dance, drama, and film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism and communications, language and literature, literary and political criticism, music and performing arts, philosophy, and religion and theology.
See also print copy: HODGES Reference AI3.H86

• Ingenta - Online Database.

Document delivery service. Search 20,000 journal titles and order articles for fax or desktop delivery.

• Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts - Online Database.

Provides abstracts of articles from approximately 2,000 serials published worldwide. Also covers monographs, recent books, technical reports,occasional papers, dissertations,and bibliographic citations for book reviews that appear in journals abstractedfor LLBA. 1973 to the present.
See also print copy: HODGES Reference P1.L36

• New York Times, Historical Newspapers - Online Database.

Digitally scanned full text access to back files of of New York Times, 1851-.

• Readers Guide to Periodical Literature - Online Database.

Index to general interest periodicals published in the U.S. and Canada.
See also printed version HODGES Reference AI3.R48

• Times Digital Archive - Online Database.

A digitized edition of The Times (London), the "world's newspaper of record." The full-text of the entire newspaper is searchable, 1785-1985.

• Web of Science - Online Database.

Citation index of over 8,000 scholarly journals. Includes citations to book reviews.

Printed:

• Alternative Press Index. Alternative Press Center, 1969-.
  HODGES Reference AI3.A27


• Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
  HODGES Reference Z5831.A78
  See also online through Web of Science.


• Book Review Index. Gale Research, 1965-.
  Annual index to book reviews in selective journals and magazines.
  HODGES Reference Counters Z1035.A1B66


• Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Humanities Journals, 1802-1974. Research Publications, 1982.
  HODGES Reference AI3.C652


• Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals, 1886-1974. Carrollton Press, 1979.
  HODGES Reference - Counters Z1035.A1C6


• Eichelberger, Clayton L. A Guide to Critical Reviews of United States Fiction, 1870-1910. / Scarecrow Press, 1971.
  HODGES PS214.E525 1971


• Forster, Antonia. Index to Book Reviews in England, 1749-1774. Southern Illinois University Press, 1990.
  HODGES Z1035.A1F67 1990


• Forster, Antonia. Index to Book Reviews in England, 1775-1800. British Library, 1997.
  HODGES Z1035.A1F675 1997


• Nineteenth-Century Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature.
  HODGES AI3.R48


• Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, rev. ed. (1802-1906).
  HODGES AI3.P7 1882


• Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature. H. W. Wilson, 1900-1997.
  HODGES Reference AI3.R48
  See also Online version


• The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900.
  HODGES AI3.W45