Research Guides and Class Pages: Library and Information Science: Find Reviews

Review Sources

AcqWeb’s Directory of Book Reviews on the Web
A compilation of numerous well-categorized book review web sites. The general interest review sites include both popular press magazines and scholarly journals. Subject-specific book review sites include topics such as children, young adults, computing, education, history, literature, music, mysteries, science, science fiction, romance, and social science.

BIR Entertainment This link opens in a new window
BIR Entertainment provides information on about 450,000 music titles and 200,000 DVD/video titles, with more being added regularly. With BIR, your patrons can find music or videos featuring a favorite artist or performer, or a specific genre.
Book Index with Reviews This link opens in a new window
Book Index with Reviews (BIR) is a comprehensive database that provides information on over 5 million book titles. Fiction and non-fiction titles are included in the database, in all genres.
Book Review Index Online Plus This link opens in a new window
Book Review Index Online Plus is a comprehensive guide to book reviews that includes more than 5 million review citations; it also includes more than 634,000 full-text reviews.
Children's Literature Comprehensive Database This link opens in a new window
Information about children's books, video and audio recordings, and other children-focused media. Includes over 2 million catalog records and 365,000+ reviews.
Choice Reviews Online This link opens in a new window
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Choice Reviews for Academic Libraries is a premier source for reviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet resources of interest to those in higher education. Create your own profile, save searches, compile and save lists, and create alerts to be notified of each new book reviewed in your subject of interest.

Educational Media Reviews Online
"Video, DVD, audio CD and CD-ROM reviews of materials from major educational and documentary distributors and independent filmmakers. The reviews are written by librarians and teaching faculty in institutions across the United States and Canada."
H-Net Online
H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences is an online scholarly review resource. Reviews are published online via discussion networks and the H-Net web site.

NoveList Plus This link opens in a new window
NoveList Plus is the premiere database of reading recommendations, available through libraries around the world. It is a comprehensive source of information about books that includes expert recommendations, reviews, articles, lists and more.
Social Science Premium Collection This link opens in a new window
The Social Science Premium Collection provides abstracts, indexing, and full-text coverage of journal articles, books, dissertations, and more, including over 4,300 full-text titles. (From the publisher.)

Reference Reviews
Journal merged with Electronic Resources Review. Reviews subscription and free Web resources.

From this video you will learn about review source databases that are available from the library.