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Reviews on the Web

Metacritic.com
Provides links to reviews of movies, television, DVDs from newspapers and magazines.
Rotten Tomatoes.com
Movie reviews from newspapers and magazines
Internet Movie Database
Amazon.com
Barnes and Noble
Theater Reviews
Theater Reviews from the New York TImes

Biographical Information

Contemporary Authors (Full Text) This link opens in a new window
A bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields.
Music Index This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing of journals and other publications about music. Coverage spans from 1976 to the present.
Oxford Music Online (Full Text) This link opens in a new window
Includes Grove Music Online, the Oxford Dictionary of Music, and the Oxford Companion to Music, reference sources that coverage a wide range of information on music.

Google Scholar

Finding Reviews in Magazines & Newspapers

Academic Search Ultimate (full text) This link opens in a new window
Multi-disciplinary article database providing information across all areas of academic study.
MasterFILE Complete (Full text) This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing and full text articles on a broad range of topics including general interest, business, health, education and current events. Provided by Badgerlink
U.S. Newsstream (1980-) This link opens in a new window
Current and archival to 1980s with key national and regional sources including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune as well as over 80 Gannett titles including the Stevens Point Journal, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Supplied by Badgerlink
Music Index This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing of journals and other publications about music. Coverage spans from 1976 to the present.

New York Times Book Reviews
Search for reviews published since 1981

Newspaper Source Plus (Full Text) This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing and full text coverage of major newspapers such as The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Washington Post and staff articles from many other newspapers, including The Chicago Tribune, The Minneapolis Star Tribune, the Wisconsin State Journal and other Wisconsin regional newspapers. Provided by Badgerlink
Westlaw Campus Research This link opens in a new window
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Westlaw Campus Research is a collection of law, news, and business publications including federal and state U.S. cases, the Code of Federal Regulations and Federal Register. The collection also contains company information and many news sources.
Readers' Guide Retrospective This link opens in a new window
An index to the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States, reflecting the history of 20th century America. A source for locating television, theater, film, and book reviews for older works.

Finding Literary and other Scholarly Book Reviews

Since most book reviews are published when a book is initially published, it is important to know the original date of publication. Reviews of books published before about 1990 are often not included in online indexes. For reviews of older titles, visit the Reference Area of the library and search in Book Review Index (1965-) and Book Review Digest (1905-). If you are looking for a review of a scholarly work of nonfiction in a specific subject area, such as science or art, try searching in a subject specific database. Many scholarly journals also include book reviews.

Book Review Digest Retrospective (1905-1982) This link opens in a new window
An index to book reviews with excerpts, and abstracts of reviews from popular magazines, newspapers, and academic journals as well as library review sources.
Choice Reviews (Full Text) This link opens in a new window
Provides access to Choice academic book reviews, which provides reviews for books of interest to those in higher education.
Literary Reference Center Plus This link opens in a new window
Provides information on authors and their works across multiple literary disciplines and timeframes. Provided by Badgerlink
Literature Criticism Online This link opens in a new window
An archive of entries from ten literary criticism series: Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400–1800, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Drama Criticism and Children's Literature Review.
JSTOR (Full Text) This link opens in a new window
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An archival full-text journal database which includes coverage in the arts, humanities, social sciences, life sciences, ethnic studies. Coverage begins with volume one of each title and continues to within 3 to 5 years of the most current issue.
Project Muse (Full Text) This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text access to scholarly arts, humanities, social sciences, and mathematics journals. Topics covered: literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, and gender studies.
America: History and Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window
America: History and Life with Full Text is the definitive research database covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. It includes hundreds of full-text history journals, plus useful features such as the ability to search by time period.

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