Book Review Digest
  1983-date    online (UR only)
  1905-date    Ref Index Case
Index to reviews of books published in America, with summaries of some reviews, selected from 75 general interest periodicals, e.g. Time, New York Review of Books, and American Literature.

Book Review Index
  1965-date    Ref Index Case
Index to reviews appearing in 450 periodicals, both general and scholarly, e.g. Comparative Literature, TLS, College Composition and Communication, Women's Review of Books, and Poetry.

Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Humanities Journals, 1802-1974
   1802-1974   Ref Index Case
Cumulated index to about 500,000 book reviews from over 150 humanities journals.  10 volumes.

Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals, 1886-1974
   1886-1974   Ref Index Case
Cumulated index to more than 1,000,000 book reviews from over 460 scholarly History, Political Science, and Sociology journals.  15 volumes.

Index to Book Reviews in the Humanities
   1960-1990   Ref Index Case
Index to several hundred periodicals, including TLS, Modern Fiction Studies, The British Journal of Eighteenth Century Studies, etc.

JSTOR
   Online full-text journals (UR only)
Full text of journals from their first volume to issues 3-7 years ago, e.g. American Literature 1929-1995, MLN (Modern Language Notes) 1886-1994, and Speculum 1926-1995.
NOTE:  For book reviews, limit search by "reviews" in Step 3.

Lexis-Nexis
   Online full-text newspapers (UR only)
Full-text of newspapers, including Washington Post (1989-yesterday) and Boston Globe (1988-yesterday), etc.
TIP:  Pick NEWS, and then pick ARTS & SPORTS, and use the DATE menu to include the time period you need.  Search by the author or title (or both) of the book you want.

New York Review of Books
   1963-date    Current issues shelved in Periodical Reading Room until replaced by microfilm: FILM .N5922
   1988-date    Full-text available through ProQuest, access restricted to the University of Rochester
   1963-date    An index of the magazine's contents is available on the New York Review of Books website:  www.nybooks.com/archives/
NOTE: The site currently offers free access to the full-text of several hundred articles, apparently randomly selected, from the Review, both recent and from years past. Without a subscription, there is a charge for most articles.

New York Times
   1980-date    Full-text book reviews are available on the New York Times website:  www.nytimes.com/pages/books/index.html
   1896-1970  New York Times Book Review Index .   Ref Index Case
Cumulated index to 75 years of NYT book reviews, by author, title, byline, subject, and category.
   1851-date    New York Times Index .   Ref Index Case
Index to the whole New York Times. Book reviews are under "Books and Literature."

TLS (Times Literary Supplement) Index
   1902-1985   Ref Index Case
Cumulated index to reviews in TLS.  Three cumulations: 1902-1939, 1940-1980, and 1981-1985.
  
Times (London)
   1785-1790    Ref AI 21 .T58
   1790-1905    Palmer's Index on CD at the Reference Desk
   1866-date     Ref AI 21 .T58
Index to the entire London Times.  Book reviews are under "Books (titles and reviews)."

Wilson OmniFile
   1982-date   online (UR only)
   1994-date   full text online
Select "OmniFile Full Text Mega" and then click on "SearchPlus."
TIP:  The ARTICLE TYPE menu includes "BOOK-REVIEW."  Citations with icons are full-text.

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18th- and 19th-Century Book Reviews

American Literary and Drama Reviews: An Index to Late Nineteenth Century Periodicals
   Ref PN 2256 .M37 1987

Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Humanities Journals, 1802-1974
   See description above.

Index to Book Reviews in England, 1775-1800
    1749-1774   Koller-Collins Ref Z 1035 .A1 F675 1997
Index to reviews of 4984 works of poetry, drama, and fiction found in 27 periodicals.

Index to Book Reviews in England, 1749-1774
    1749-1774   Koller-Collins Ref Z 1035 .A1 F67 1990
Index to reviews of poetry, drama, and fiction found in 16 periodicals.

Literary Reviews in British Periodicals 1789-1797,  1798-1820, and 1821-1826
   1789-1826   Koller-Collins Ref Z 2013 .W36
Subtitle is "A Bibliography, with a Supplementary List of General (Non-review) Articles on Literary Subjects."

The Romantics Reviewed; Contemporary Reviews of British Romantic Writers
    Rhees stacks PR 590 .R43
Reprints of reviews published from 1793 to 1824 of works by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelly, Keats, et al. 9 volumes.

United States Fiction, 1870-1910
    1870-1910   Ref Index Case
Indexes over 20,000 contemporary reviews of major and minor American writers.

Prepared by Rosemary Paprocki, Robbins Library.