OneSearch is a discovery tool that provides a single place to search most of the content available from the Baylor University Libraries, including:
You can also find literary criticism on your author or work in OneSearch by performing a subject search with this formula:
The results will be all the materials we have in the library that are about that author and his or her works.
If you would like to extend your search past Baylor holdings, the next place to go is Worldcat. Use Osofast to order items through Interlibrary loan.
Contains an online catalog to the book, media, archival, journal, map, music, and special collections holdings of libraries across the United States and internationally.
Allows you to find books to request through OsoFast/InterLibraryLoan
Indexes Ph.D. dissertations and Master's theses in the collection of OCLC member libraries around the world.
Book reviews, especially scholarly or lengthy ones, can be good sources of information about the author of the book, his/her scholarly background and biases, as well as how this book compares to others in the field (or if it's unique).
Use the sources mentioned in the boxes on this page for Electronic and Print Resource tab to find book reviews in the scholarly journals for your discipline. In the electronic sources type in the title of the book and limit the (article) type to review to find out if there are reviews. For the Print resources there will usually be a section labeled "Book Reviews" or "Reviews." Don't hesitate to check with me if you have questions.
The reviews in scholarly journals may appear as much as 3 - 5 years later than the publication year of the book, so don't limit your search too narrowly.
The sources listed below are additional places to look for book reviews - some brief, some longer - if you don't find any in the databases.
Provides searching and digital access to the New York Times newspaper from its beginnings in 1851 to three years short of the current year.
Provides indexing and full-text access to the Times (London) newspaper from its inception to 2019.
Essays and reviews from the Times literary supplement. Containing every page of every copy of the TLS published from 1902 to 2005. Also includes identification of the anonymous contributors, reviewers, essayists, and writers of letters and poems, allowing students, researchers, critics and authors to explore in greater depth the literary activity and critical opinion makers of the 20th and early 21st centuries.
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