Book Review Digest
This source lists reviews in major newspapers and popular journals. Excerpts from some reviews are included.
Years covered: 1905 – 1999;
Location: Index Tables in Reference (First Floor)

Book Review Index
This source lists reviews in major newspapers, popular magazines, and some scholarly journals. More titles are indexed here than in Book Review Digest, but no excerpts are included.
Years covered: 1965 – 2004
Location: Index Tables in Reference (First Floor)

Combined Retrospective Index to Bk. Reviews in Humanities Journals, 1802-1974
This index focuses on reviews from scholarly journals.
Years covered: 1802-1974.
Location: Index Tables in Reference (First Floor)

Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature
This source includes reviews from popular magazines. The reviews are listed separately at the back of each volume and are arranged alphabetically by author.
Years covered: 1900 – 2000
Location: Index AI3 .I56 (First Floor)

Electronic Sources -- General
Academic Search Premier
[for a more precise search, select “book review” as Document Type from the search screen]
This database indexes and provides some full-text articles for a variety of popular and scholarly journals and magazines. Chronological coverage varies by title, but earliest articles are from 1975 and most titles cover at least the last 10 years.

LexisNexis Academic: Arts & Sports News
Choose “Arts & Sports News”
Then Choose “Book, Movie, Music & Play Reviews”
Coverage: Full-text book, movie, play and music reviews from a range of magazine and newspapers sources (including the New York Times.) Chronological coverage for specific publications varies, but is generally limited to the last 5-10 years.

Electronic Sources -- Specific Disciplines
These more specialized databases also allow you to do a search limited to “review” or “book review” as a type of document.