Book reviews can be an excellent resource for getting familiar with the scholarly literature on a particular topic, or deciding what to read next. This guide will help you find quality book reviews through library databases.
Academic Search Premier has the most comprehensive collection of full-text journal articles and book reviews of any databases available through the library.
Articles from scholarly and professional journals, magazines, and newspapers on a wide range of subjects, many full text.
Conducting a Search
The screenshot examples below show a search for reviews of John Adams by David McCullough.
Use quotes to search for words together as a phrase ("david mccullough").
Click the green search button to retrieve search results.
Reviewing Search Results
This search returned 109 results.
Check the box next to Reviews from the options on the left to show only reviews.
Reviews can be identified in the results with the Review icon.
To read the article in full, click on either HTML Full Text or PDF Full Text (depending on what is available for that article).
If the full text is not available, click on the Check for Full Text button. This will allow you to search in other databases or request it through Interlibrary Loan.