You can use research databases to look for book reviews. Databases will search across many sources at one time, so this is the best option to capture the widest range of reviews.
On the following tabs you'll find instructions for finding book reviews in a selection of databases. If you are using another subject specific database, look at the advanced search options and see if you can refine document, item or content type to review or book review, and then run your keyword search.
Web of Science is a multi-disciplinary resource which includes scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. You can limit your search results to book reviews, as the video below shows:
You can narrow your search results to book reviews when searching JSTOR:
You can narrow your search results to book reviews when searching ProQuest One Literature:
From the Basic Search page:
OR From the Advanced Search page:
This will find book reviews from newspapers and other publications such as The Guardian, Times Literary Supplement, New York Times and many more.
A database search will offer a wider and more thorough search, as you will be searching multiple sources at one time, but if you want to look in a specific publication you can find the title via Library Search.
You can find reviews in journals or literary magazines such as:
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