University of Calgary Library Pathfinder

Selected Resources for Locating Book Reviews for Religious Studies Material

General Book Review Indexes

• Book Review Digest (Z 1219 B6) 2LB-REF
• Book Review Index (Z 1035 A1 B64) 2LB-REF
• Combined retrospective index to book reviews in humanities journals, 1802 - 1974 (Z1035 A1 C62) 2LB-REF
• New York Review of Books - searchable index of contents from 1963 to the present; full text of all reviews published since November 1996.

• America: History and Life - covers the world's scholarly literature on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present. Hint: Use Advanced Search. Enter "book review" in the "document type" field to limit results to book reviews
• Arts and Humanities Search - indexes more than 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals. Hint : Go down to Article type phrase box. Change to "Book Review"
• ATLA Religion Database - major index to books and articles on religious studies. Hint: Choose keyword search; enter "reviews" and combine it with keywords from the title example: "reviews and Beyond phenomenology"
• Canadian Periodical Index - good source if book was published Canada. Hint: Choose keyword search; enter "book reviews" and combine it with keywords from the title example: "book reviews and flowering of the soul"
• CBCA (Canadian Business and Current Affairs) - good source if book was published in Canada Hint: add search term "book reviewand change the drop down box to "article type"
• Humanities Abstracts - includes full-text for selected articles. Hint: Limit search to book reviews by changing the "document type" box to Book Review
• PCI Web (Periodical Contents Index) - international index to thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. Coverage is from the first issues(back to the 1700's) to 1990/1991. Hint: At bottom of search screen, under "scope" limit search to book reviews only
• Social Sciences Abstracts Hint : Limit search to book reviews by changing the "document type" box to Book Review

  
  

• Bryn Mawr Classical Review - reviews of scholarly work in classical studies
• Critical Review of books in religion (BL 1 C75) 5LT - covers period 1988-1998
• IOUDAIOS Review - review of books dealing with Judaism in the Graeco-Roman age
• Medieval Review - reviews of current work in all areas of Medieval Studies
• Review of Biblical Literature