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Book Review Digest is a reference
database that provides review excerpts and book summaries for current
English-language fiction and non-fiction books for all ages. Abstracting
and indexing is included for more than 112,000 books, with more than
8,000 new records from 109 periodicals added per year.
Review abstracts contain
bibliographic indexing for further reviews. Indexing of non-fiction
books have received reviews in at least two or more periodicals indexed
in Book Review Digest while fiction books have received reviews
in at least three different periodicals.
Book Review Digest
is searchable by title, author, keywords, subject heading, ISBN,
call number and more. Abstracts include age/grade level of children’s
books and include the approximate number of words in the complete
review, allowing users to search for any word or name in this field.
Searching
Enter your terms in the Find field. You can use Boolean
operators (and, or, not) with your search. If available, field codes and
search history may also be selected.
On the Refine Search sub-tab, select any search options
you want. You can use limiters or expanders to broaden or narrow the
focus of your search.
Click Search. The
results of your search are displayed.
Results
Many databases present results by source type. You can
click on the source icons to view your results by
source type (periodicals, newspapers, etc.).
Where a "Sort by" drop-down list is
available, you can re-sort your results by author, date, relevance, etc.
To print, e-mail or save several search results at
once, you must add them to your folder.
You may access Book Review
Digest from on campus or from
off campus with an APSU ID.
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