Social Work Subject Guide

Book Reviews

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Book Review Digest Plus 

Indexes and excerpts reviews of English-language fiction and nonfiction books published in leading periodicals. Scholarly books, textbooks, government publications, and technical books are excluded. Online coverage: 1983-present. Updated weekly.

Book Review Index 

Provides reviews of general interest and some scholarly books published in the US since 1965. This doesn't have the excerpts from reviews that Book Review Digest provides, nor does it go back to 1905, but it does index many more periodicals.
Print: Z 1035 .A1 B6 (Ref)

Social Sciences Abstracts 

Indexes over 600 periodicals in anthropology, economics, ethnic studies, feminist studies, geography, human services, international relations, law and criminology, police science, political science, population studies, psychology, public administration, public health, social work, sociology, urban studies, and related social science subjects. Coverage: indexing from 1983 and abstracts from 1994. Updated weekly.

Social Services Abstracts 

Indexes over 1,400 serials publications in social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. Includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews. 1980-date. Updated monthly.

Sociological Abstracts 

Indexes an international selection of publications in sociology and related disciplines from over 1,800 journals, serials, books, conference papers, and dissertations. Indexing and abstracting from 1952, and cited references with links from 2001. Updated monthly.

Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals, 1886-1974

Z 1035 .A1 C64 (Ref)
This 15-volume set offers title and author access to over one million book reviews that appeared in the backfiles of about 460 scholarly journals in the fields of History, Political Science, and Sociology between 1886 and 1974. Reviews are arranged by author's last name.

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