Use OneSearch to find books
- OneSearch This link opens in a new window
OneSearch is a discovery tool that provides a single place to search most of the content available from the Baylor University Libraries, including:
- traditional library materials (books, journal titles, media, etc.);
- the Baylor Digital Collections;
- BEARdocs, (electronic theses and dissertations, honors theses, technical reports, faculty publications, etc.);
- research guides;
- and -- most importantly, much of the full text content to which the Baylor Libraries subscribe from a wide variety of sources.
- traditional library materials (books, journal titles, media, etc.);
Advanced OneSearch
You can also find literary criticism on your author or work in OneSearch by performing a subject search with this formula:
- Choose "Library Catalog" at the top of the search page
- Choose "Subject" from the drop down list
- Put the name of the person in the search box
- Choose "Subject" on the next line and put in the term "Criticism and Interpretation"
The results will be all the materials we have in the library that are about that author and his or her works.
Extending the search past Baylor
If you would like to extend your search past Baylor holdings, the next place to go is Worldcat. Use Osofast to order items through Interlibrary loan.
- WorldCat This link opens in a new window
Contains an online catalog to the book, media, archival, journal, map, music, and special collections holdings of libraries across the United States and internationally.
- WorldCat dissertations and theses This link opens in a new window
Indexes Ph.D. dissertations and Master's theses in the collection of OCLC member libraries around the world.
Finding Book Reviews
Book reviews, especially scholarly or lengthy ones, can be good sources of information about the author of the book, his/her scholarly background and biases, as well as how this book compares to others in the field (or if it's unique).
Use the sources mentioned in the boxes on this page for Electronic and Print Resource tab to find book reviews in the scholarly journals for your discipline. In the electronic sources type in the title of the book and limit the (article) type to review to find out if there are reviews. For the Print resources there will usually be a section labeled "Book Reviews" or "Reviews." Don't hesitate to check with me if you have questions.
The reviews in scholarly journals may appear as much as 3 - 5 years later than the publication year of the book, so don't limit your search too narrowly.
The sources listed below are additional places to look for book reviews - some brief, some longer - if you don't find any in the databases.
- OneSearch This link opens in a new windowSearching for the title of the work and limiting your results to "reviews" will help you find book reviews.
- H-Net ReviewsA source of scholarly reviews for books and media in all areas of the humanities and social sciences fields. Reviews and reviewed items may be in any language. Simple and advanced search as well as browse lists are the main options for identifying reviews. Advanced search allows limits (including to which list the review was published), but no limits for language.
- New York Review of BooksUse the "Opinion Archives" to access these in-depth reviews written by scholars and well-known authors.
- ProQuest historical newspapers. The New York times This link opens in a new window
Provides searching and digital access to the New York Times newspaper from its beginnings in 1851 to three years short of the current year.
- Times digital archive 1785-2019 This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing and full-text access to the Times (London) newspaper from its inception to 2019.
- Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive This link opens in a new window
Essays and reviews from the Times literary supplement. Containing every page of every copy of the TLS published from 1902 to 2005. Also includes identification of the anonymous contributors, reviewers, essayists, and writers of letters and poems, allowing students, researchers, critics and authors to explore in greater depth the literary activity and critical opinion makers of the 20th and early 21st centuries.
