Locating Book Reviews

A. Article Databases

Academic Search Complete / Business Source Complete

Go to the Find Articles page
Click on "Academic Search Complete"
Click on the "Choose Databases" button
Click on the box at left of "Business Source Complete"
Click on the "Continue" button - at top of page
Check off the box to the right of "Full Text"
Put the title of the book on the first search square.
At right of search square, arrow down to "TI Title"
Do search

Note: Only put title (not subtitle) in the search square

Academic OneFile

Go to the Find Articles page
Click on "Academic Onefile"
Click on the box to the left of "Documents with Full Text"
Put the title of the book in the first search square.
At left of search square, arrow down to "Document Title (ti)"
Do search

Note: Only put title (not subtitle) in the search square

Book Review Citations in the Two Databases Above

If you do not find any book reviews when searching in full text, you can take the "full text" option off and see if there are citations to book reviews.

Then you would search to see if our library had those journal issues in bound or microfiche format (Folder at the reference computers provides this information)

Also, you can search for it these bound/microfiche journals in the Online Catalog:

a. Go to
b. Click on "Basic Search"
c. Put the journal title in the search box
d. Select "Title" at left for "Select a Search Type.
e. Click on the arrow by "Limit Your Search" (below search square) and select "Serials in English"
f. Do search

If you find that DBU has the book review, request it be sent to you

B. Reference Resources

(The following resources are particularly helpful for books written before 1990)

Book Review Index - Call Number REF Z1035 .A1 B6

Book Review Index provides citations to book reviews from 1965-2006

Book Review Digest - Call Number REF Z 1219 .C95 1928

Book Review Digests provides excerpts from several reviews from 1928-1998

C. Internet

By Searching with Google, one can sometimes find book reviews from journals in full text. One also can sometimes find citations to book reviews.

Additionally, some of the Amazon.com reviews have excerpts from book reviews, and the publisher's site sometimes advertises their books by providing excerpts or entire reviews that show them in a favorable light.