1.   Find the copyright date of the book you want to review. This can be found on the back of the title page, with a © followed by the date. If there is more than one copyright date, the earliest date should have the most available reviews. For movies, find out the year the movie was released.

2.  Books copyrighted from 1986 to the present may be found in GALILEO.  The New York Times has free exclusive online access to their book reviews in full text from 1981 to the present. If your book was published before 1986, you will need to use the print resources: Book Review Digest or Book Review Index.

3.  To search, go to GALILEO.  (If you are off campus, you will need the GALILEO Password for this semester.)

4.  Click on either Academic Search Premier (at EBSCOhost) or Research Library (at ProQuest) from the homepage.

5.  Academic Search Premier (at EBSCOhost)

1. type in the title of the book (or movie) or the author's (or director's) last name, followed by the phrase, and reviews.
2. if you want a review by a scholar, check the box after Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals
3. click Search
4. For example, to find reviews of Plainsong by Kent Haruf, type: plainsong and reviews or haruf and reviews

6.   Research Library (at ProQuest)

1. click the green tab Advanced
2. type in the title of the book (or movie) in the first box and in the second box, type in the author's (or director's) last name.
3. click on the gray tab at the bottom of the screen, More Search Options
4. go down to the box after Document Type, click on the arrow and choose book review (or movie review)
5. if you want a review by a scholar, check the box for Scholarly journals, including peer-reviewed
6. click Search

10.  If the review is not full text, write down the source information (journal title, article title, author, volume number, date, page numbers.)  There is also an email feature on both databases, you can email the citation information to your email account.

11.   Use GIL@CSU to see if the Clayton State University Library subscribes to the journal you are needing.  The periodicals in the CSU Library are shelved in alphabetical order, by journal title. The exception to this is the New York Times Book Review, which will be on microfilm, in the cabinets in the microfilm area.

12.  If the CSU Library does not have it, you can request the article through InterLibrary Loan.