Finding Published Reviews
Start with:
Academic Search Premier for reviews in magazines and journals.
- Limit by "book review." Show Me
LexisNexis Academic for reviews in newspapers and transcripts of radio and tv broadcasts.
- Check Search within US and World Publications" and "TV and Radio Broadcast Transcripts." Search. Then find "Result Groups: Subjects: Book Reviews. Show Me
If you don't find reviews in the databases, use an index* that covers the date your film first appeared:
- Book Review Digest, 1905-present (4th floor) Z1219 .B6
- Book Review Index, 1965-present. (4th floor) Z1219 .B62
- Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, 1890-present. AI3.R4 (6th floor).
- Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Humanities Journals, 1802-1974 (6th floor) AI3 .C6521.
- Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals. 1886-1974 (6th floor) Z1035 .A1 C64.
- Index to Book Reviews in the Humanities V.1-30, 1960-1989 (4th floor) AI3 .I49.
*You'll find a citation to the review, not the review itself Use the OSU Libraries Catalog to see if we have the magazine or newspaper with the review.
For help using indexes, click on Read More below.
Read moreThings to keep in mind
- Reviews come out when a book is first published.
- It's fairly easy to find reviews of current books using an online database or the internet.
- It's not so easy to find reviews of books published before 1980, and the older the book, the more places you may have to look.
- Knowing the year a book was published will make your work easier, especially if you're looking for reviews of older books.
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