Finding Book Reviews

NOHS Media Center

 

I.    Print

Books

        Search the NOHS or Cuyahoga County Public Library  (CCPL) online catalog. Make sure you are search book or author by subject.  Use the Media Center webpage at 

  http://www.nohsteacher.info/mediacenter

.                  Click to enter Web Cat

        For CCPL Library catalog and other local libraries, go to the “Other Library Catalogs” page.  CCPL’s address is http://www.cuyahogalibrary.org.

 

Reference Books

• Contemporary Literary Criticism and other books (Go online to Gale’s Literary Index first at http://www.galenet.com/servlet/LitIndex --Search by book title.)
• Book Review Digest—Need to know year book was published. (You can search Book Review Digest electronically at CCPL at http://www.cuyahogalibrary.org/researchinfo/specialists/LITERATURE/INDEXES.htm. Click into Book Review Digest title not “Home Use” button.
• Many others in books in REF 810s.

 

II.    Online

Paid Services/Subscription Databases

            Magazine, Journal and Newspaper Indices – Go to links off Media Center Homepage http://www.nohsteachers.info/mediacenter/magnews.htm

(These need passwords at home.)

• Student Resource Center—Do a “Literature Search” and then a “Title Search.”
• Contemporary Novelists in Gale Virtual Reference Library  http://galenet.gale.com/a/acp/name/Nort52281:Nort52281
• EbscoHost – Choose “All Databases.” Click on Academic Search, Masterfile Premier, Newspaper Source, American Humanities Index. Use Advance Search.
• Newsbank Newspaper Search – Search all newspapers
• OCLC FirstSearch – For general interest and scholarly journals.
• For the Literature Resource Center at CCPL website, go  to research links at http://www.cuyahogalibrary.org/researchinfo/specialists/LITERATURE/authors.htm
• For additional journal articles at CCPL go to http://www.cuyahogalibrary.org/researchinfo/specialists/LITERATURE/INDEXES.htm. Select service.

 

Free Web Sites

• Amazon.Com http://www.amazon.com  (Look for “editorial reviews” only.)
• American Authors on the Web
• Bookpage http://www.bookpage.com (search the archives)
• Complete Review:Review Index http://www.complete-review.com/maindex/maindex.html (Links to reviews)
• New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/index.html (Reviews from last five years are free.)
• IPL Online Literary Criticism http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/