How to find (and write) BOOK REVIEWS

Need Help in writing a book review?

A couple of helpful books located in the Perry Library at Old Dominion University are:

• How to Write Book Reports -- REF PE1478.T45
• Writing Literature Reviews: A Guide for Students of the Social and Behavioral Sciences H62.G245

A quick online guide for writing a book review:

Indiana University: Writing Book Reviews

Need to find a book review?

Major review sources, located in the Reference Department, list hundreds of thousands of book reviews. They are:

• Book Review Digest -- REF Z1219.C96
  (covers the years 1905 to the present)
• Book Review Index -- REF Z1035.A1B6
  (covers the years 1965 to the present)
• Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals 1886-1974 -- REF Z1035.A1C6
• New York Times Book Review Index -- REF Z1035.A1N4
  (covers the years 1896-1970; updated by Book Review section in New York Times Index)

For reviews of older books, try

• Nineteenth Century Readers' Guide (1890-1899) -- REF AI3.R385
• Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906) -- REF AI3.P7
• C19: The Nineteenth Century Index
• American Periodicals Series Online

Book reviews may be found in such periodical indexes (databases) as

• America: History and Life
• Article First
• Factiva
• Global Books In Print
• General Onefile
• JSTOR
• LexisNexis Academic
• Literature Resource Center
• Project Muse
• Sociological Abstracts
• (All available to ODU students and faculty)

If you need assistance, ask the library reference staff for help by calling 757-683-4178. If you prefer to use email, from the library's home page at http://www.lib.odu.edu, click on Ask a Librarian.

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