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Book Reviews, Librarianship, Publications

This is a list of some of the basic databases to find resources for your subject. For a more extensive guide to doing Book Review research please see the Book Review Research Guide

Section Headings List

Books- Books. Brief Information- Brief Information. Citations or Abstracts- Citations or Abstracts. Full Text- Full Text. Images- Images. Top-pick- Top-pick. Webpage- Webpage.

Book Reviews

Many subject indexes cover book reviews. Ask a librarian for assistance.

Book reviews from nearly 100 American and Canadian periodicals in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences, as well as library review media. Selected full text.

Access: Proxy Vendor: Wilson
Choice Reviews 1988-Current Brief Information

Canceled due to budget cuts.

Access: CANCELED Vendor: ALA

Librarianship

A unique working and teaching tool created by librarians for librarians, this database indexes English and foreign-language periodicals, selected state journals, conference proceedings, pamphlets, books, and library school theses.

Access: Proxy Vendor: Wilson

Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.

Access: Proxy Vendor: EBSCO

Other Resources

Access: Free Vendor: ALA

Information on all U.S. books in print, Covers scholarly, technical, popular, adult, juvenile, and reprint titles.

Access: Proxy Vendor: Bowker

Includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and a range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy and literature to law.

Access: Proxy Vendor: Credo Reference
Education Full Text 1983-Current Citations or Abstracts Full Text

Encompasses all areas of concern to today's educators, including administration, teaching methods, and curriculum.

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Evans Digital 1639-1800 Full Text

Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 consists of more than 37,000 books, pamphlets and broadsides.

Access: Proxy Vendor: Newsbank

Gale's Ready Reference Shelf provides integrated access to 355,000 entries culled from the databases of fourteen of Gale's most popular reference directories.

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Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

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Full text of a small collection of scholarly books in history and social studies.

Gutenberg-e has traditional narrative with digitized primary sources, including maps, photographs, and oral histories.

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Information on literary figures from all time periods of writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more. Includes the Dictionary Of Literary Biography.

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A collection of over 40,000 books in full text, including both current and classic works.

All users must create a netLibrary account. Use a campus computer, Pegasus, or the Proxy when you create your account.

Once the account has been created, you can log into netLibrary and "check-out" books for up to two hours.

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In Academic Universe, click Sources in the menu near the top of the screen and enter New York Times.

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Full text of New York times and 4 other national newspapers: Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Christian Science Monitor.

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Complete text and images of the New York Times.

Digital reproductions of every page from every issue in downloadable PDF files.

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Prices, frequency of publication, addresses, phone and fax numbers, e-mail and Web addresses for journals, magazines, newspapers, and other periodicals worldwide. Indicates available formats, intended audience, special features (i.e. reviews, whether a journal is refereed) and indexing/abstracting services coverage.

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Full text of Pre-Victorian early modern women's writing.

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Last Updated October 03, 2008