Book Review Index
{{Short description|An index of book reviews published by Gale}}
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| company = Gale
| country = United States
| based = Detroit
| founded = 1965 to present
| ISSN = 0524-0581
| website = {{URL|1=https://www.gale.com/c/literature-book-review-index|2=gale.com/book-review-index}}
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Book Review Index is an index of book reviews and literary criticism, found in leading academic, popular, and professional periodicals. It has been published since 1965. For most of its history it has been owned by Gale and is based in Detroit.
Publication history
Volume 1 of Book Review Index was published in 1965.{{cite web|title=Book Review Index Online |url=https://www.nypl.org/collections/articles-databases/book-review-index-online|work=New York Public Library |access-date=August 5, 2020}} It was originally published monthly. Starting in May 1977, the index was published bi-monthly. In 1994, the index became quarterly. Since 1996, it has been published three times a year, along with an annual accumulation.
In 1975, Gale began publishing Children's Book Review Index, which included information from Book Review Index on children's literature.{{Cite journal|issn=0099-1333|volume=2|issue=3|pages=145–146|title=Guide to New Books and Book Reviews Children's Librarianship|journal=Journal of Academic Librarianship|date=July 1976}}
Online
The entire index of more than 5.6 million reviews covering over 2.5 million titles is also available as Book Review Index Online or Book Review Index Plus{{cite web|url=https://www.gale.com/uk/c/book-review-index-plus|title=Book Review Index Plus|work=Gale, Cengage Company|access-date=June 2, 2018}} with the full electronic text of more than 600,000 discussions.{{cite web|url=https://www.ru.nl/library/@703623/pagina/|title=Book Review Index Online PLus|publisher=Radboud University|work=University Library|access-date=June 2, 2018|archive-date=November 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191106121500/https://www.ru.nl/library/@703623/pagina/|url-status=dead}}
See also
References
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Further reading
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- {{Cite journal |last1=Cleland |first1=Nancy Dean |title=Comparison of Sports Coverage in 'Book Review Digest' and 'Book Review Index' |journal=RQ |volume=23 |issue=4 |pages=451–459 |date=1984 |issn=0033-7072 |jstor=25827226 |df=mdy-all }}
- {{Cite journal |last1=Golderman |first1=Gail |last2=Connolly |first2=Bruce |title=eReviews |journal=Library Journal |volume=137 |issue=12 |pages=105–109 |date=2012 |issn=0363-0277 |id={{EBSCOhost|77692299}} |df=mdy-all }}
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External links
- [https://www.gale.com/c/literature-book-review-index Book Review Index Online]
- [http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/bookreviews.html Cornell University on Book Reviews]
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