1. Finding Scholarly Book Reviews
POLS1120 Library Session
Finding Scholarly Book Reviews
Using Google to find reviews
Using favourite journals to find reviews
Using databases to find reviews
Accessing the fulltext of reviews
January. 2008

2. Using Google to find book reviews – pros & cons
Fast, easy
Lots of non-scholarly reviews to weed through – very difficult to limit to good quality reviews
Good for very recently published books
Not clear whether you can read the fulltext of scholarly reviews or not – why?

3. Using favourite journals to find book reviews – pros & cons
Trusted source for high quality scholarly reviews
No guarantee that a title will be reviewed
Awareness of editorial point of view (if you are a regular reader)
Limited to your knowledge of relevant journals – easy to miss very good reviews
Time consuming

4. Using databases to find book reviews – pros & cons
Trusted source for high quality scholarly reviews
Not as familiar as google or flipping through your favourite journals
Pulls together reviews from many different journals into one place
Easy access to the fulltext of many reviews

5. Catalog/Databases Library Catalogue Databases Books, eBooks
Journal/Magazine Titles
Newspaper Titles
-Multimedia
Databases
Journal Articles
Newspaper Articles
Theses, Conference Papers, etc.
Get new screen shot
Add flyins re: Catalog/Books, Databases/Articles, eBook Collections, eJournals, Digital Resources

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9. WebBridge: Getting to the Full Text
Yea!!!
Still hope...

10. Yea!!! Still hope... WebBridge: Getting to the Full Text
If “Article Full Text” does not display …
Still hope...

11. WebBridge: Getting to the Full Text
Yea!!!

12. Two minute exercise

13. See you at the Reference Desk
Thank you
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