Book Reviews can also be located by browsing or searching journals and databases. To find reviews for books about history, you will need to look in history journals. From the Woodward Library website, go to the Research Guides page, and then click on the appropriate guide (note: there is a US History and a World History guide): https://libguides.apsu.edu/friendly.php?s=subjectlist
Search for your book title on databases like JSTOR or Historical Abstracts with Full Text. As with film reviews, book reviews can be identified by looking for review/book review in the article title or by searching for articles that are 1-3 pages long.
You can also search for a specific book title. The process for searching a journal for a review of a specific book is the same as searching for a specific film: click on the journal, then click “See All” under the list of journal issues on the left-hand side of the screen. Click on one of the databases that contain the journal; this will redirect you to the journal’s homepage. From the homepage, there will be an option to search within the journal. In the example for Film Criticism, the search feature was in the upper left-hand corner of the webpage. On the homepage for Indian Historical Review, it is located in the upper right-hand corner of the screen:
If you don’t have any luck finding a review of your book with the method described above, you can consult any secondary-source history database. For book reviews, I recommend:
Different databases will return different results for the same search. A search for reviews of the book Every Step a Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet by Dorothy Ko will return the following results in the databases listed above:
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