History Research Guide
Book Reviews
Indexing to book reviews is often included in the same indexes
that are used for finding articles in general. Of special note for book reviews
of interest to historians are:
America: History and Life
Includes scholarly reviews of books in American History. You can limit your
search to book reviews by using the Document Type field.
Historical
Abstracts
Does not include field called book reviews. But does include "review articles,"
which usually review several books in the same subject area.
JSTOR
JSTOR includes full text of journal articles (including book reviews) in selected core journals. To search for a reviewed title:
In the Basic Search Box,
Type:
rt:"name of reviewed title"
Example:
rt:"moral man and immoral society"
Web of Science
Web of Science indexes scholarly journal articles (including book reviews) in many subject fields. For most history books, reviews are likely to appear in either Social Sciences or the Arts and Humanities sections. This selection can be made at bottom of the initial page.
Choose Advanced Search.
In the box, type: ts=keywords from book title, possible with author last name
Under Restrict Results (at bottom) choose Book Review
Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Humanities
Journals, 1802-1974
D. H. Hill Ref. AI3 .C62
Use for finding book reviews in humanities journals that predate the standard
electronic indexes.
Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals, 1886-1974.
D. H. Hill Ref. Z1035 .A1 C64
Use for finding book reviews in scholarly journals that predate the standard
electronic indexes.
Academic Search Premier
Use to find current book reviews in selected popular and scholarly periodicals.
Book Review Digest
D. H. Hill Ref. Z1219 .B66
Use to find book reviews in more popular (rather than scholarly) periodicals.
Index goes back to 1905. Short summaries of reviews are provided.
Book Review Index
D. H. Hill Ref. Z1035 .A1 B55
Provides indexing to reviews in popular periodicals from 1985 to the present.
More comprehensive than Book Review Digest, but does not provide summaries.
H-Net Reviews
Source of online scholarly book reviews.
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