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Academic Search Elite
Contains full text for more than 2,000 journals, including more than 1,550 peer-reviewed titles. This multi-disciplinary database covers virtually every area of academic study.

Book Review Digest
Also In print at Reference Table A Z1219 C95  1905+
About 75 general English language periodicals are indexed in this source; very few specialized titles are included.  The arrangement in the print volumes is by author with subject and title index.

Book Review Index.Call Number: Reference Table A Z1219 B59
1965+
This index is arranged by author and title with abbreviated citations to the reviews.  About 450 publications are included.

ChoiceReviewsOnline
Includes access to entire database of CHOICE reviews published since September 1988, updated monthly.  Reviews significant books and resources of interest to those in higher education.

LexisNexis Academic
Provides a wide range of full-text news, business, legal, and reference information. You can do keyword searches by entering review and title or author. (e.g., review and titanic) )

Reader's Guide Abstracts
1983+. Abstracts of articles from popular magazines.

Readers' Guide Retrospective.
1890-1982.  Index to older magazine articles.

Specialized Sources

Children's Literature Review.Call Number: Reference PN 1009 A1 C5139

Literary/Literature Criticism series .Call Number: Ref PN 88 through PN 771
The index in the last cumulated volume refers the user to any of the titles in this reference family.  It includes information about authors living and dead.

Nineteenth Century Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature 1890-1899.Call Number: Reference Table B AI3 R479
Book reviews are entered only under the author of the book reviewed.

Poetry Criticism. Call Number: Ref PN 1010 P6
Provides significant criticism of the world's greatest poets.

Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1906.Call Number: Reference Table B AI 3 P7
Reviews of fiction, poetry, and drama are entered under the author of the work. Reviews of subject books are entered under the subject.

Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature.Call Number: Reference Table B AI3 R48
1890+ In the back of each current issue or annual volume is a section of book review citations arranged alphabetically by author of the book.

Science Fiction Book Review Index .Call Number: Ref PN3433.8 H35 1985
An index to more than 13,800 book reviews appearing in over 70 science fiction, fantasy, and general periodicals from 1980-1984 as well as research index featuring the history of, or criticism on science fiction and fantasy literature, television programs, motion pictures, and graphic arts. 

Shakespearean Criticism .Call Number: Ref PR 2965 S43
This resource provides valuable insight into Shakespeare's drama and poetry through "a multiplicity of viewpoints documenting the critical reaction of scholars and commentators from the seventeenth century to the present day."- Preface

Short Story Criticism .Call Number: Ref PN 3373 S56
This resource concentrates on short story writers of "all eras and nationalities" and includes biographical information, criticisms, and a bibliography of each short story writer.

Film Review Annual. Call Number: Ref PN1995 F55
This annual reprints reviews "of full-length films released in major markets in the United States during the course of the year." - Pref. The reviews are arranged by title of film and taken from magazines, journals, and newspapers; the date and page are part of the citation.

Magill's Survey of Cinema .Call Number: Ref PN 1993.45 M3
The series covers American, British, Canadian, Australian, and other English language films of 1927-1981 (the sound era).

New York Times Film Reviews .Call Number: Ref PN 1995 N4
About 16,000 reviews appear chronologically in the 1913/68 set; these are reprints of the reviews as they appeared in the newspaper.  It is published biennially.

New York Times Theater Reviews .Call Number: Ref PN 2266 N48 1870-2000
The Times has published, in chronological order, the reviews as they appeared in the newspaper beginning with 1870.  The historical sets and the biennial volumes have indexes of titles, production companies, and personal names.

Variety Film Reviews .Call Number: Ref PN 1995 V34 1983
The coverage begins with 1907 and includes the reviews as they appeared in Variety.  The inclusion of international film festivals is especially strong.

Variety Television Reviews .Call Number: Ref PN 1992.3 U5 V36
The coverage begins with 1946 and includes the reviews as they appeared in Variety.

Magazines for Libraries .Call Number: Ref PN 4832 M34
A selective annotated listing by subject of more than 6,950 journals chosen by experts in their fields.

Serials Review .Call Number: Ref PN 4832 S47

Internet Scout Project - Archives .
The Scout Report Archives is a searchable and browseable database to over nine years' worth of the Scout Report and subject-specific Scout Reports. It contains 16,969 critical annotations of carefully selected Internet sites and mailing lists.

Librarian's Index to the Internet
The mission of Librarians' Index to the Internet is to provide a well-organized point of access for reliable, trustworthy, librarian-selected Internet resources.