General Databases

For recent book reviews you may choose to use one of the Library's general databases such as InfoTrac's Expanded Academic ASAP or EBSCO's Academic Seach Premier, which index over 1,500 magazines and journals, and include the full text of many articles. From the library's homepage, under 'Find' select 'Articles.' Once in a database, a keyword search using the author's name and the major words in the title of the book will yield the greatest results.

Subject Specific Databases

In the databases available at Auburn University Libraries you have access to hundreds of indexed journals in subject specific fields. From the libraries home page (www.lib.auburn.edu) click on 'Find', then select 'Articles'. Select 'Databases by Subject' for relevant area. Keyword searching in most databases will secure the best results.

Print Indexes

Book Review Digest (REF Z 1219 .B72)
Reviews are listed alphabetically by author, and a title index is included at the back of each volume. Check the volume corresponding to the year in which the book was published, as well as the next few years. Coverage begins in 1965 and runs through the present.

Book Review Index (REF Z 1035 .A1 B6)
Reviews are listed alphabetically by author, and a title index is included at the back of each volume. Check the volume corresponding to the year in which the book was published, as well as the next few years. Coverage begins in 1965 and runs through the present.

Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals, 1886-1974
(Z 1035 .A1 C64)
Scholarly reviews of books dealing with history, political science, and sociology are listed alphabetically by the author of the book being reviewed. Volumes 13-15 serve as the title index.

Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in the Humanities, 1802-1974 (AZ 221 .C645 1982)
Reviews of book reviews in the humanities are listed alphabetically by the author of the book being reviewed. Volume 10 is the title index.

Index to Book Reviews in the Humanities (AI 5 .I5)
Reviews are listed alphabetically by the author of the book being reviewed. This index begins coverage in 1960.

National Library Service Cumulative Book Review Index, 1905-1974 (Z 1035 .A1 N3)
Reviews are indexed in "author" and "title" volumes. This index reviews for Book Review Digest, Choice, Library Journal, and Saturday Review.

New York Times Book Review Index, 1896-1970 (Z 1007 .N562)
Reviews are listed in author, title, subject, category, and by-line volumes.

Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature (REF AI 3 .R4), Humanities Index (AI 3 .H9) and Art Index (N 1 .A454).

Social Sciences Index (H 1 .S632) and Business Periodicals Index (HF 5001 .B8288)

General Science Index (Q1 .G47), Applied Science and Technology Index (Z 913 .I7) and Biological and Agricultural Index (S 1 .A1635)