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Book Review Index Online Plus

Book Review Index Online Plus features over 600,000 full-text book reviews and millions of review citations culled from over 400 periodicals, scholarly and popular. Coverage begins in the mid-1960s and continues through the current year.

Books in Print

A bibliographic database of over 7.5 million U.S. book, audiobook, and video titles, as well as 12 million international titles, currently in print. The database also includes bibliographic information on forthcoming and out-of-print books, and reviews from publications such as Publisher's Weekly, Booklist, Choice, and Library Journal. Entries include tables of contents, publisher's descriptions, cover images, author biographies, and awards information.

JSTOR: Journal Storage

JSTOR offers Library members full-text searchable access to articles from the back issues of nearly 2,000 scholarly journals across the arts and sciences, including in-depth, informed book reviews. Articles display as PDF images, and can be printed or saved to a computer. Create a "My JSTOR" account to save citations and searches, receive email alerts for saved search results, and more. Using JSTOR & Project MUSE

London Review of Books

With a list of contributors that reads like a who's who of late 20th century intellectual life, the London Review of Books has been an esteemed source of analytical book reviews and thoughtful essays since 1979. This database contains every review and essay published in the magazine since its founding—over 12,000 articles—and is fully searchable. Users can also browse by issue or contributor.

New York Review of Books

A full-text database that offers users multiple ways to search or browse reviews and articles from the acclaimed magazine's founding in 1963 through the current issue.

Project MUSE

The Project MUSE database includes full-text articles and book reviews in nearly 400 humanities and social sciences scholarly journals, including current content. Library members also have access to nearly 2,600 backlist university press e-books in the subject of history. The e-books may be downloaded as PDFs to your computer in chapters with no loan periods. Using JSTOR & Project MUSE

ProQuest

Proquest is a suite of databases containing current and historical content of several major U.S. newspapers, including the New York Times going back to the year 1851. It also includes a digitization of the New York Times Index, which allows users to further refine their searches by subject, location, person, creative works, and company/organization. Databases include:

 

  • New York Times (1980-current)
  • Historical Newspapers: New York Times (1851-2009)
  • Historical Newspapers: New York Tribune / Herald Tribune (1841-1962)
  • Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Times (1881-1991)
  • Historical Newspapers: Wall Street Journal (1889-1997)
  • Historical Newspapers: Washington Post (1877-1998)
  • Historical Newspapers: Christian Science Monitor (1908-2001)

Proquest is available for in-Library use only.

Reader's Guide Full Text

The Library is pleased to offer this easy-to-use digital version of a source that has been a standard in print reference collections for decades. The database includes indexing and abstracting for over 400 publications back to 1983, and the full text of articles and critical reviews from over 200 publications going back to 1994, covering a wide array of subjects. Patrons can use basic and advanced search templates or browse, and can e-mail, print, or save search results. The database is updated daily.

Times Literary Supplement, 1902-2011

Back issues of the Times Literary Supplement are among the prime sources of twentieth-century British cultural history. With the TLS database, which includes material dating back to the journal's first appearance in 1902, members can search by a book's title or author, by contributor, or under listed subject-headings. Additionally, the online version of the TLS includes the names of the contributors, who until 1974 were uncredited.

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