Book Reviews: Selected Resources: Special Subject Sources
This guide will enable you to locate reviews of popular and/or scholarly books. Most popular books are reviewed within six months of publication. Scholarly books are often reviewed as late as two to five years after publication.
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Special Subject Sources
- Alternative Press IndexCall Number: Lockwood Reference AI 3 A27 (Index Area) 1969-2002Reviews are listed by author/title under "Book Reviews". Articles that also contain reviews are listed with [br] after the citation.
- Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Humanities Journals, 1802-1974Call Number: Lockwood Reference Z 6265 C65 1982 (Index Area)Offers an author/title access to more than 500,000 reviews in humanities journals.
- Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals, 1886-1974Call Number: Lockwood Reference Z 1035 A1 C6 (Index Area)An index to more than one million reviews in 459 scholarly journals in history, political science and sociology.
- Guide to Critical Reviews of United States Fiction, 1870-1910Call Number: Lockwood Reference Z 1225 E35Index to representative contemporary critical comment on fiction written by both major and minor U.S. writers published during the 1870-1910 period.
- Humanities IndexCall Number: Lockwood Reference AI 3 R473 (Index Area) 1974/75-98Citations to reviews can be found under author or title in the "Book Review" section at the back of each volume. This index covers only English language journals. It includes fiction, drama and poetry.
- Index to Book Reviews in ReligionCall Number: Lockwood Reference Z 7753 A52 (Index Area) 1986-95Previous to 1986 reviews were included in the final section of each volume of Religion Index One: Periodicals.
- Index to Book Reviews in the HumanitiesCall Number: Lockwood Reference Z 1219 I6 (Index Area) 1960-90International in scope. After 1971, all reviews (with the exception of children's books) are indexed by author, title and name of reviewer.
- Index to Jewish PeriodicalsCall Number: Lockwood Reference Z 6367 I5 (Index Area) 1963- 2000 // Silverman Multimedia Center (Capen) CD-ROM Z 6367 I5 1988-2008All reviews are listed under "Book Reviews" as a subject.
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Review Index (title varies)Call Number: Lockwood Reference Z 5917 S36 S3 1971-1990 (incomplete)
- Science Fiction Book Review Index, 1923-1973Call Number: Lockwood Reference Z 5917 S36 H35
- Science Fiction Book Review Index, 1974-1979Call Number: Lockwood Reference Z 5917 S36 H36
- Social Sciences IndexCall Number: Lockwood Reference AI 3 R472 (Index Area) 1974-97An author and title index to book reviews in English language periodicals follows the main section of the index.
- Women's Studies IndexCall Number: Lockwood Reference HQ 1101 W772 (Index Area) 1990-96Indexes scholarly and popular periodicals, mainly American.