Find a Book Review
Scholarly journals, trade journals, highbrow magazines, book review periodicals, and newspapers will all publish book reviews.
1. Search for the book title in quotes or use a keyword from your topic
- If you know the book you want to find reviewed, type the title and put it inside quote marks.
- You may have to add the author of the book, if the title is the same or similar to another book or a common phrase.
- If you are simply looking for a review of any book on a topic, type your main keyword as a keyword.
2. Limit to Reviews, before or after the search
- To search exclusively for reviews, look for an option to limit to reviews either on the Advanced Search screen of a database or along the side of the search results list after you enter keywords.
- An example of selecting for reviews ahead of time, in JSTOR:
- An example of limiting to reviews after performing a search, in RILM:
Nearly any of our databases, including OneSearch, will have an option to limit to book reviews, so start your search on the library homepage and go from there.
