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These indexes limit coverage to a particular topic area. Some of them index journal articles as well as book reviews, but all have at least one section that is dedicated to book reviews. Searches usually need to be done in the advance mode, limited to book reviews. All databases have a help screen. For more information about the databases, please go to the Databases @ Emory page.

 
Indexes
African Studies

Africa-Wide: NiPAD (19th Century to present)

Anthropology Anthropological Literature
Z5112.A56
Reviews are in the print version of the supplement.
Architecture Avery Index (1977 to present)
Art

Art Abstracts (1984 to present)

Art Index Retrospective(1929 to 1984)
Business ABI/INFORM Complete (1971 to present)
Economics EconLit (1969 to present)
Education ERIC (1966 to present)
English

ABELL(1920 to present)

Literature Online

Literature Resource Center
Ethnic Studies Ethnic NewsWatch (1991 to present)
History America: History and Life (1974 to present)
This abstracting service has had a book review section since 1974. A print version, also available, is in the stacks (Z1236 .A5).


Reviews in American History (1973 to present)
Z1236 .R47 and current periodicals
Long, signed reviews of scholarly books in American history and related disciplines. 1995 to the present is also available online through Project Muse. 1973 through 1994 is available online through JSTOR.
Humanities Humanities Abstracts (1974-present)

Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective(1907 to 1984)
Law Foreign Legal Periodical Index (1985 to present)
Library Library Literature(Dec 1984 to present).
Math MathSciNet (1940 to present)
Philosophy Philosopher's Index (1940 to 2000)
Political Science International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (1981 to present)

PAIS International (1915 to present)

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts(1967 to present)

Psychology PsycINFO (1887 to present)
Religion ATLA Religion Database (1949 to present)
Science Applied Science & Technology Index (1958 to present)
A print version is available in the stacks (Z7913 .I7).


Biological Abstracts/RRM (1980 to present)
Reference Z5320. B56
Consult Biological Abstracts/RRM for synopses of book.


BIOSIS Previews (1985-1988) and BIOSIS Previews (1989 to present)
Biosis Previews includes the contents of Biological Abstracts and Biological Abstracts/RRM.
Search by Author, Title or Concept Code and limit to BOOK as publication type.


General Science Index (1978 to present)
A print version is available in the stacks (Z7403 .G4).

History of Science, Technology and Medicine (1975 to present)
Search for Author and/or Title and Book Review in Keyword.
In Advanced Search, select Author and/or Title, then limit Form/Genre to Book Review.


MathSciNet
Select book author and/or title and Document Type: Books.
Social Science Social Sciences Abstracts (1983 to present)
Sociology Sociological Abstracts (1963 to present)
Women's Studies Contemporary Women's Issues (1992 to present)
 
 


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