Find Reviews of Books and Book Chapters
Books
Book reviews in academic journals can provide an indication of the reception of your research by the scholarly community.
These are general sources for book reviews:
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A quick way to find book reviews is to look up the title of the book in Library Search and choose Everything as your search choice. If there is a review in an online journal held by the Library the review/s will be included in the search results. They will have the heading ARTICLE or the heading REVIEW and a peer reviewed icon like this: 
These journals specialise in book reviews in specific subject areas:
- American Historical Review
- Bryn Mawr Classical Review
- Journal of Economic Literature
- Classical Review
- Contemporary Sociology
- History (Great Britain)
- History (Washington, D.C.)
- Reviews in Anthropology
- Reviews in Religion and Theology
Publisher websites may include reviews.
Reviews from popular sources
Book reviews in newspapers, on Amazon and on Goodreads provide an indication of the impact of your research on the wider community.
Book reviews are available in some databases:
- Factiva
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Search for the title of the book
- Google Scholar
- Google Books
Has user reviews for older books.
- Index New Zealand
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Includes book reviews in indexed NZ journals
- JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive
Search for the title of the book and add the word review
- Project MUSE
Search for the title of the book and add the word review
- Scopus
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Search for the book title and choose Review from the Document Type dropdown menu
Newztext Plus includes book reviews in indexed NZ newspapers.
Book Chapters
It is hard to find reviews of separate book chapters. Some suggestions:
- Find a review of the complete book using the sources listed above
- Comments on social media – See the Researcher pages
- Altmetrics – See the Researcher pages
- Citations to chapters may include comments.