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Book Review Digest Plus

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About Book Review Digest Plus

Book Review Digest Plus and Book Review Digest Retrospective provide citations and excerpts of reviews of current English-language fiction and non-fiction books for children and adults published or distributed in the United States or Great Britain. Book review excerpts capture the most evaluative passages of the reviews cited. With the addition of book review citations included in the other eleven H.W. Wilson databases ( Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Art Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index Plus, Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, Library Literature & Information Science Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text), periodicals are covered for the period 1983 to the present, including about 1.3 million reviews of over 550,000 books. Links are provided to full-text reviews. Descriptive annotations of books are also included. Book Review Digest Retrospective cites over 1.5 million reviews of some 300,000 books which appeared in over 500 key English-language popular magazines, newspapers, and academic journals in the period 1905-1982.

Other Versions:
# Book Review Digest, SML Reference Index Case Z1219 B66 (LC) 1905-present
# Applied science & technology index, KLINE (Non-Circulating) Z7913 A66 (LC) v.1(1913)-v.45(1957), 1958-1982; LSF-Request for Use at Kline Science Library
# Art index, ART AND ARCHITECTURE, Reference, Index Z5937 A78 (LC) v.1(1929/1932-present
# Art index, BRITISH ART CENTER, Reference Lib., Mezzanine Z5937 A78 (LC) v.1(1929/1932)- present v.68:no.4-v.74:no.1 (unbound)
# Art index, SML, Stacks, Yale Classification Xj17 A74 1929/1932-1932/1935
# Art index, SML, Starr Main Reference Room Z5937 A78 (LC)+ Oversize v.1(1929/1932)-v.46(1997/1998)-v.68:no.4(1997:Oct.), v.69:no.1(1998:Jan.)-v.69:no.4(1998:Oct.)
# Biological & agricultural index, KLINE, Abstracts

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Years of Coverage: 1983-present

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    WilsonWeb Quick Reference Guide
    Source List:
    Journal Directory (Book Review Digest Plus)(choose the database OmniFile Full Text Mega)
    Journal Directory (Book Review Digest Retrospective)
    Related Resources:
    Databases with book reviews
    Search Hints:
    Because authors are entered in the database in the form Last, First and Last F., the recommended approach is to search for Last, First OR Last, F. Do not use truncation in author searches.

    All Fields 'phrase' searches may find more records than a Boolean AND search. This is because phrase searches are done as Boolean OR searches, but will return records in relevance-ranked order.

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