Anthropology Research Guide

What is a literature review?  and how is it different from a book review?? This webpage by the UC Santa Cruz Library does a good job of explaining lit reviews.

Annual Reviews Online--THE place for LITERATURE reviews in the social sciences!

Most databases allow you to limit your search to "reviews" or "book reviews". Look for advanced search and filtering options. Book reviews are often considered a document type.

Focus on Anthropology

• Reviews in Anthropology is a journal devoted to lengthy, in-depth review commentary on recently published books in the four fields of anthropology. This journal is indexed in the Anthropology Plus database.
• AnthroSource includes book reviews that were published in the journals of the American Anthropological Association. Search for the title or author of the reviewed book.

• JSTOR
  • JSTOR indexes several major anthropology journals that include book reviews.
  • Go to the Advanced Search and enter your search terms, narrow results by "Reviews", and filter for Anthropology journals.

• Anthropology Book Forum is an open access journal, founded by the American Anthropological Association as an experimental prototype aimed at accelerating the scholarly book review process within anthropology.

Social Science Sources 

• JSTOR
• PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) -- focuses on public policy literature
• Social Sciences Abstracts
• Web of Science  -- Good resource for science and social science topics.

 General Book Review Sources

• Book Review Digest Plus

  Reviews from over 8,000 periodicals covering current fiction and non-fiction.

• Choice

  Provides reviews for books and electronic resources of academic interest.