www.calendarlive.com/books/?track=mainnav-books
Current reviews are featured in the online version of the daily LA Times, with a searchable archive back to 1990. Only the most recent two weeks of full-text is free, however. |
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http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=aph
Go to Academic Search Premier. This database features the full text for 4,500+ journals, including more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles in business, humanities, social sciences, general science, and education, many dating back to 1975 or further. Also provided is indexing and abstracting for more than 8,000 scholarly journals, and coverage of The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Christian Science Monitor. Select Book Review from the Document Type pull-down menu, along with words from the title of the book you want to see reviewed in the Title keyword index.
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http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?prod=OMNIFT
Full text of articles from over 1,750 publications and article abstracts and indexing from over 3,500 publications). Coverage back as early as 1982, with full text from 1994 to the present. Updated weekly. Select Book Review from the Document Type pull-down menu, then search for words from the title of the book you want to see reviewed.
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http://pao.chadwyck.com/articles/search.do?reset=yes
PAO is an electronic index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1990/91. Every article is indexed in more than 3,000 journals and nearly 11 million articles. Go to the PAO article search page. Indicate that you want book reviews only, then search for words from the title of the book you want to see reviewed.
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www.jstor.org
The full text of all of the issues of 1000+ scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences is the main feature of this outstanding site; many titles date well back into the 19th century. Coverage generally stops for the most recent 2-5 years. Go to the Basic Search page of the site, select the type of journals you want to search, and indicate that you want reviews only. Then search for words from the title of the book you want to see reviewed.
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http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/rah
Reviews in American History provides an effective means for scholars and students of American history to stay up to date in their discipline. Each issue presents in-depth reviews of over thirty of the newest books in American history. Retrospective essays examining landmark works by major historians are also regularly featured. Online coverage is from 1995.
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http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr
The BMCR is published five times/year. This site provides reviews of current scholarly titles published throughout the world in classical studies - Greek and Roman history and culture. Reviewers come from a variety of academic institutions. Searchable index and numerically-arranged list available. The archive of reviews extends back to 1990. |
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www.history.ac.uk/reviews/index.html
This site is an electronic publication that reviews and reappraises significant work in all fields of historical interest. Reviews cover publications from the Middle Ages to the present. |
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http://eh.net/bookreviews
This site offers reviews of new releases of interest to scholars and teachers in these fields. The project has two components, the Book Review Library owned and managed by EH.Net and a link to the Book Review archives at H-Net. |
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www.hti.umich.edu/t/tmr/
Formerly the Bryn Mawr Medieval Review, this site features reviews of current work in all areas of Medieval Studies. According to the editors, "[t]he electronic medium allows for very rapid publication of reviews, and provides a computer searchable archive of past reviews, both of which are of great utility to scholars and students around the world." TMR operates as a moderated distribution list. Subscribers receive reviews as e-mail. |
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www.theatlantic.com/books/books.htm
This site offers reviews of current fiction and non-fiction, with a modest archive of past reviews. Some of the content is unique to the online magazine. |
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www.nybooks.com/index
This is the home page of the redoubtable literary review that shapes the opinions of many of its readers. Full text of reviews since 1996 is available, but indexing of the entire magazine since 1963 is also online. |
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www.bookwire.com
A service of the R. R. Bowker Co., this site provides an extensive list of book reviewing sources, many of them mainstream but many on the margins of standard scholarly reviewing and publishing. Especially useful for regional publishing and small press imprints. |
