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Using Library Search to Locate Book Reviews
Select the "Articles" box after searching by book title and author.
For best results, limit your results to 'Reviews' from the Resource Type category. Then limit your search results to "Peer reviewed-only" to find only academic reviews.
Book Reviews
A review is a critical evaluation of a text, event, object, or phenomenon. Reviews can consider books, articles, entire genres or fields of literature, architecture, art, fashion, restaurants, policies, exhibitions, performances, and many other forms.
Above all, a review makes an argument. The most important element of a review is that it is a commentary, not merely a summary. It allows you to engage in dialogue and discussion with the work's creator and other audiences. It can offer agreement or disagreement and identify where you find the work exemplary or deficient in its knowledge, judgments, or organization.
"Book Reviews." The Writing Center. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, n.d. Web. 21 Apr 2011. <http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/review.html>.
Below are some key historical databases that include Academic Book reviews.
Some Information in this guide is adapted from:
https://guides.library.harvard.edu/HistSciInfo/primary#s-lg-box-wrapper-7437024
https://guides.temple.edu/history