Library Guides: HIST 14203: Doing History: Theory and Practice: Evaluating Sources

Other Sources for Reviews

H-Net
Scholarly, open-access reviews since 1995.
Reviews in History
Scholarly, open-access reviews since 1996. From the Institute of Historical Studies, London.

Book Review Digest Plus
-- 1980-present

Book Review Digest is a reference database that provides review excerpts and book summaries for current English-language fiction and non-fiction books. Limit of 1 simultaneous user.
Book Review Index
-- 1965-present

A comprehensive online guide to book reviews with over five million review citations from thousands of publications.

Reviews of Academic Books

Use these databases to find examples of book reviews of academic publiations. Remember that reviews of academic publications may take several years to be written.

America: History and Life
Focus on topics in North American history. Use Advanced Search to limit to reviews.

America: History & Life is the definitive index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present.
Historical Abstracts
Use Advanced Search to limit format to reviews.

Historical Abstracts is an exceptional resource that covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more - essential for libraries supporting upper-division and graduate research. This authoritative database provides indexing of more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955.

(Description taken from EBSCO website.)
IBR: International Bibliography of Book Reviews
-- 1985-present; print from 1971-1981 Includes reviews from some international journals not included in other databases.

Multilingual and interdisciplinary index to book reviews, chiefly in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
JSTOR
Use the advanced search in JSTOR and limit to "Reviews". To further narrow your search, select a field or subject area. Does not include reviews from the last 3-5 years for many publications.

A database of back issues of core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. All issues of each journal are included in full-text except for the most recent 2-to-5 years.

Finding Book Reviews

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