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Access a unique record of books and
reviews reflecting the ideas that shaped the 20th
century.
Virtually every major idea that shaped
the 20th century found expression in books. The
reactions to those ideas are reflected in the reviews of
those books, and this new database makes it easy to
search this vast record of information. Reflecting
nearly eight decades of H.W. Wilson’s Book Review
Digest, this database provides excerpts from and
citations to reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and
non-fiction. |
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Covers 300,000 books.
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Virtually every book has at least
one substantial review excerpt (up to 500 words),
most have at least two, and many books have several
review excerpts for a complete picture of how the book
was received at the time it was published.
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Cites over 1.5 million book reviews.
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Search on the names of book
reviewers for a wealth of reviews, with excerpts
by such famous writers as Edmund Wilson, John Updike,
and hundreds of others. Here's a
sample list
of reviewers.
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Book review excerpts capture the most
evaluative passages of reviews. These excerpts,
together with the descriptive summaries of the books,
present a wealth of information and a
deep-text-intensive database.
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Accurate, detailed indexing of over
500 key English-language popular magazines,
newspapers, and academic journals as well as the
library
review media.
Click here for a list.
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Save over 14 feet of shelf space—contains
the indexing from 78 printed annual volumes.
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Library holdings indicator links
to your OPAC to let users know if they'll find
reviewed books on your shelves.
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WilsonLink SFX technology
links books to a title Web search, or book review
citations with full text from any of your OpenURL
compatible databases, when not available from
WilsonWeb—at no additional charge.
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Search simultaneously with Book
Review Digest Plus for more than a century of book
summaries, review excerpts, and citations to reviews.
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Available exclusively on WilsonWeb.
Many Uses for Book Review Digest
Retrospective:
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Helps scholars and journalists chart
the careers of important 20th century authors.
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Helps students writing book
reports.
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For book clubs or reading lists:
see how books we now consider "classics" were received
when they were first published.
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Locate historical book information.
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Helps in weeding your
collection.
Book Review Digest Retrospective
users can search by keyword, book title, author, and
more. Master records deliver valuable information about
each book:
Title • Descriptive summary • Author • Publisher •
Publication year • Page count • Indicator of
illustrations • ISBN • Dewey Decimal classification
number • LC control number • Review excerpts and
abstracts • Citations to reviews.
Covering books in a full range of
subject areas, Book Review Digest Retrospective
presents reviews of fiction and nonfiction, reference
works, textbooks, and children’s books in these areas:
Art • Biography • Business • Education
• General Interest • History • Humanities • Literature •
Library & Information Science • Music • Religion •
Science & Technology • Social Sciences
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