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  Book Reviews: Nineteenth-Century Book Reviews

Database available to authorized IU Bloomington users, on or off campusPCI (Periodicals Contents Index)

Dates and format: 1799-1995 (varies). Electronic.

Notes: Contains nearly two million book reviews from over 3000 scholarly journals. Select Book reviews only and enter the author's name in the Article Title Keyword field.

Database available to authorized IU Bloomington users, on or off campusTimes Digital Archive

Dates and Format: 1785-1986 (when archive is completed--check resource for progress), electronic.

Notes: Full text electronic archive of the London Times. Use the Advanced Search and select Reviews (under the Features section).

Database available to authorized IU Bloomington users, on or off campusNew York Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)

Dates and Format: 1851-1999, electronic.

Notes: Full text electronic archive of the New York Times. Use the Advanced Search and select Article Type: Review.

Database available to authorized IU Bloomington users, on or off campusNineteenth-century Masterfile (Poole's Index to Periodical Literature)

Dates and format:1802-1906. Electronic and print.

IU Bloomington location and call number: (Print version) Main Library, Reference Department Index area, AI 3 .P805

Print, microfilm or CD-ROM resource, available in the IU Bloomington Libraries location notedThe Wellesley index to Victorian periodicals, 1824-1900.

Format: Print.

Notes: This publication is an issue-by-issue list of the contents of 43 major periodicals. It includes an index of the authors of articles and reviews, but it does not index by the author of the book reviewed. Reviews written by a given author can easily be found by looking in the cumulated index of authors in vol. 5; the only way to find reviews of a specific book is to scan the entries starting in the year it was published.

IU Bloomington location and call number: Main Library, Reference Reading Room, AI 3 .W45

Celestina Wroth (cewroth@indiana.edu)
Librarian for History, Religious Studies,
and History & Philosophy of Science
Main Library E560, Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405, (812) 855-1336

Last updated Fall 2003