Monday, September 12, 2005

Book Review Index Online

OVERVIEW: Book Review Index Online (BRIO) is a comprehensive guide to book reviews that includes more then 5 million review citations from thousands of publications, including refereed journals, general interest publications, and newspapers. It includes the entire backfile from the original print edition of Book Review Index, which dates back to 1965. Built on the InfoTrac Web platform, BRIO is searchable by author of book reviewed, title of book reviewed, publication date, reviewer, title of review, review length, journal, refereed publications, reading level, and more.
This is the gale preview site so you will find more trials then just the Book Review Index Online
http://trials.galegroup.com/pubacd/

username: virtual (lower case)
password: library (lower case)
expires: September 30, 2005

After logging in click the literature tab in the left hand column.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I was disappointed in the number of items that were citation only.
The full-text was from sources like PEOPLE and NY TIMES which we have as full-text anyway.
This is not a priority for me.
-Pat