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Title: Find Book Reviews A STEPBYSTEP OVERVIEW


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Find Book Reviews A STEP-BY-STEP OVERVIEW
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  • Wichita State University Libraries
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Fundamentals (Part 1)
  • Here are general tips on finding book reviews
  • Book reviews are published in popular magazines
    or newspapers (e.g., Newsweek), in specialist
    scholarly journals (e.g., American Journal of
    Sociology), and in special book review
    periodicals (e.g., New York Review of Books).
  • Find book reviews by consulting finding tools
    that index just book reviews or periodical
    indexes that serve to identify all types of
    articles, including book reviews. Certain
    periodical indexes are used to identify articles
    in popular magazines or newspapers. Other
    periodical indexes are used to identify articles
    in specialist scholarly journals. Indexes may be
    available online or in print.
  • In addition to indexes, online full-text journals
    are a direct source for book reviews. Such
    e-journals or searchable scanned images of
    print journals are, for purposes here, grouped
    with online periodical indexes. (Online
    periodical indexes often lead to full text
    online full-text journals and online periodical
    indexes therefore share the same features.)
  • Reviews do not always appear in the same year as
    the books publication date. It is often
    necessary to consult index volumes for two or
    more years following the publication date.
    Remember also that the great majority of books
    never get reviewed at all.
  • Sometimes a new edition of a book will receive
    reviews, especially if there was a lengthy period
    between editions.

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Fundamentals (Part 2)
  • It is useful to consult several reviews of a book
    to obtain a more balanced evaluation.
  • But note, if you want scholarly evaluative book
    reviews, omit reviews in American Libraries,
    Booklist, Choice, Library Journal, Publishers
    Weekly. These do serve as good brief statements
    of what a book is about.
  • It is crucial to choose the appropriate index or
    indexes for finding reviews. For example, it
    probably would not be helpful to seek the review
    of a book on Renaissance art in an index to law
    journals.
  • Know a much as possible about a book before
    seeking reviews. For example, is it a current or
    historical work? Is it a popular or scholarly
    title? Having this knowledge will help you
    choose the best electronic or print tools to
    locate reviews

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STEP 1 Get Basic Citation Information
  • Get together the basic information that
    identifies the book in question
  • Authors name
  • Title of the book
  • Year it was published
  • To identify citation information about
    the book Nickel and Dimed, look at the title
    page, if you have the book in hand. Library
    catalogs will also give you the information
  • Author Ehrenreich, Barbara
  • Title Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By
    in America
  • Publication Date 2001

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STEP 2 Consult the Appropriate Index (Part 1)
  • Depending on the year and subject matter of the
    book for which you seek reviews, there are a
    number of book review finding tools.
  • For older publications, it may be necessary to
    consult a print book review finding tool.

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STEP 2 Consult the Appropriate Index (Part 2)
  • Consider the tools listed on the main
    Find Book Reviews page.

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The next slide addresses the first indexes found
on this list ...
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STEP 2 Consult the Appropriate Index (Part 3)
  • First consider the online Book Review Digest.
    Then consider the print version of Book Review
    Digest (which has coverage back to 1905). Then
    consider Book Review Index (which indexes many
    more sources). And so on, down the list ...
  • ONLINE TOOLS
  • Book Review Digest (covers 1983 to date)Provides
    citations and abstracts for book reviews from 90
    widely-circulated journals some links to full
    text of review.
  • PRINT TOOLS
  • Book Review Digest (covers 1905 to 2002 in WSUs
    holdings)Reference Index Table 12 and older
    years in Reference Stacks (Z1219 .C96). Lists
    and selectively excerpts reviews from same
    sources as online tool. Entries are arranged by
    last name of author of book. Contains noteworthy
    subject index, including, under the heading
    Fiction, a detailed listing by theme.

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STEP 2 Consult the Appropriate Index (Part 4)
  • PRINT TOOLS (continued)
  • - Book Review Index (covers 1965 to date)
    Reference Index Table 12 (Z1035 .A1 B6). Lists
    citations to reviews from over 400 scholarly
    journals, popular magazines, and newspapers.

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STEP 2 Consult the Appropriate Index (Part 5)
  • Note that WSU Libraries subscribes to
    approximately 100 general and subject-specific
    electronic databases. These databases can help
    you find all kinds of articles, including book
    reviews. Consider the following online general
    tools
  • Expanded Academic ASAP (coverage as early as 1980
    to date)Provides citations and abstracts to over
    900 wide-ranging scholarly journals, popular
    magazines and newspapers some links to full text
    of review. Enter the query review! and NAME
    OF BOOK.

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STEP 2 Consult the Appropriate Index (Part 6)

  • ONLINE TOOLS (continued)
  • JSTOR (coverage as early as 1800s and ending 3-5
    years ago, with rolling wall)Multi-discipline
    archive of scholarly journals. All articles are
    available as full-text images. Coverage goes
    back to the first issues of the publications
    included in the archive.
  • LexisNexis Academic (coverage as early as 1970s
    to date)Provides access to thousands of
    full-text news, business, and legal sources.
    Coverage of publications varies. Choose the
    Guided News Search interface. Under Select a
    news category select Arts Sports News. Then
    under Select a news source select Book, movie,
    music, play reviews. For Search terms enter
    the books title, author, and/or subject. (Note
    that you can search for reviews in a specific
    newspaper or journal by entering its name e.g.,
    The New York Times in the last search box,
    Search this publication titles.)
  • Project Muse (coverage as early as 1993 to
    date)Provides access to full-text journals in
    humanities and social sciences.

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STEP 2 Consult the Appropriate Index (Part 7)

  • ONLINE TOOLS (continued)
  • Readers Guide Abstracts (covers 1983 to
    date)Indexes articles from popular
    general-interest magazines in the U.S. and
    Canada. Search for the books author, title,
    and/or subject. Under Document Type select
    Book review.

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STEP 2 Consult the Appropriate Index (Part 8)

  • PRINT TOOLS
  • New York Times Index (covers 1914 to 2001 in
    holdings here)Reference Stacks (AI21 .N44).
    Look under the index entry book reviews.
  • Readers Guide to Periodical Literature (covers
    1900 to 1994 in WSUs holdings) Reference Stacks
    (AI3 .R48). Indexes articles from popular,
    general-interest periodicals, including same
    sources as online tool. Since 1976, separate
    Book Reviews section at end of volume.

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STEP 2 Consult the Appropriate Index (Part 9)
  • Next consider the Humanities, Sciences, and
    Social Sciences indexes, depending upon the
    subject matter of the book for which you seek
    reviews.
  • The most important subject-specific book review
    finding tools are given on the main
    o Find Book Reviews
    page (http//library.wichita.edu/reference/howdoi
    /findbookreviews.htm)

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STEP 3 Locate the Periodicals Containing
the Book Reviews You Identified
(Part 1)
  • Unless you found direct links to the full-text of
    the book reviews you located, you must determine
    whether or not the library owns a copy of the
    journal, magazine or newspaper in which the
    review appears.
  • You should have written down (or printed out) the
    full citation for the book review. For
    exampleSmith, Joan, reviewer. The Times
    Literary Supplement, no. 5203 (Dec. 27, 2002), p.9

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STEP 3 Locate the Periodicals Containing
the Book Reviews You Identified
(Part 2)
  • If you used an index such as the print Book
    Review Digest, use the WSU Online Catalog to look
    up the name of the periodical that contains the
    book review.In the example above, look up Times
    Literary Supplement, selecting Search by
    Journal Title. (Be sure you do not include the
    initial article The in the title.)

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STEP 3 Locate the Periodicals Containing
the Book Reviews You Identified
(Part 3)
  • The Catalog indicates we have the periodical

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STEP 3 Locate the Periodicals Containing
the Book Reviews You Identified
(Part 4)
  • Further, it indicates that we have the particular
    issue (no. 5203) needed

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STEP 3 Locate the Periodicals Containing
the Book Reviews You Identified
(Part 5)
  • If you used online Book Review Digest, you could
    automatically execute the search in the WSU
    Online Catalog

Click here to execute the search
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Finally (Part 1)
  • For further assistance with using the WSU Online
    Catalog or any aspect of finding book reviews,
    ask at the Ablah Library Reference Desk.

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Finally (Part 2)
  • Source Material and AttributionsThis tutorial
    incorporates both excerpts (without use of
    quotation marks) and slightly modified text drawn
    from the following web pages developed by other
    librariesBook Reviews, New York University
    Libraries http//www.nyu.edu/research/rg35.html
    Finding Book Reviews, University of
    California-Berkeley Libraries
    http//www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Boo
    kReviews.html Finding Book Reviews, Widener
    Library of the Harvard College Library
    http//hcl.harvard.edu/widener/services/research/b
    ookreviews/bookreview1a.html Finding
    Book Reviews, Research Tips, Earlham Libraries
    http//www.earlham.edu/libr/courses/bookreviews.
    htm Find Book Reviews, How Do I , Boston
    College Libraries http//www.bc.edu/libraries/r
    esearch/howdoi/s-findbookreviews/

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