W. Frank Steely  Library

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General Resources

Books in Print with Reviews

"B" Databases Access: Available off campus with NKU login Coverage: Current. Updated monthly. Records of in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books from over 44,000 North American publishers. Features more than 300,000 full text reviews from nine leading sources.

Location: The BookWire Index

Provides links to booksellers, publishers, libraries, newsgroups, reading groups, author websites, reviews, and more. Information about literary prizes and awards can be found at Bookwire's Book Awards page at http://www.bookwire.com/bookwire/otherbooks/Book-Awards.html

AcqWeb's Directory of Publishers and Vendors and Publishers' Catalogs Home Page

eLocation: http://www.lights.com/publisher/ Both provide comprehensive links to publishers and their catalogs.

Advanced Book Exchange Home Page

Location: http://www.abebooks.com/ A service for buying and selling out-of-print, used, rare and antiquarian books.

Book Reviews and Reading Lists

Arts and Letters Daily

eLocation: http://www.aldaily.com/ Links to full text reviews from a wide variety of online publications. Also provides links to major book review sites.

LEXIS-NEXIS Congressional Universe

eLocation: "L"Databases Access: Available off campus with NKU login. Coverage: Search for full text book reviews in major newspapers. (Choose "News," then "General News.") Indexes New York Times, London Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Toronto Star, Los Angeles times, Chicago Sun-Times, The Guardian, and many others.

Academic Search Premier

eLocation: "A" Databases Access: Available off campus with NKU login Coverage: 1990-present. Search for book reviews -- some full-text -- from mainstream news magazines, major newspapers and library trade journals.

Book Recommendations of Real Folks

eLocation: http://www.figure8.com/homespun/booktop.jsp Post your own book reviews or read the recommendations of other readers.

BookReview [Book Review Digest]

Location: Reference index shelves. Access: Non-circulating, print. Coverage: 1905-present. Updated monthly. eLocation: Database List Access: Restricted to Steely Reference Area. See a librarian. Coverage: 1983-present Indexes periodicals published in the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain that review adult and children's books. Includes English-language fiction and nonfiction.

Book Review Index

Location: Reference index shelves. Access: Non-circulating, print. Coverage: 1965-present. Updated monthly. Indexes over 600 general and scholarly journals as well as online book reviews.

Location: Periodicals Department, 4th floor

eLocation: Booklist Booklist is a magazine devoted to reviews of adult, children's and reference books as well as media.

eLocation: Genrefluent: The World of Genre Fiction

Provides reviews of books in the following categories: Adventure, Crime, Fantasy, Graphic Novels, Historical, Horror, Romance, Science Fiction, and Young Adult. Also has an author index.

eLocation: H-NET reviews

Book reviews in the humanities and social sciences.

eLocation: New York Review of Books

The New York Review of Books online offers full text reviews back to 1996, and indexing back to 1963. Reviews published prior to 1996 can be ordered online for a fee, or can be found on microfilm or microfiche in the library's Periodicals Department. Location: Periodicals Department, 4th floor

eLocation: New York Times Book Review

The New York Times publishes a book review section in its Sunday paper. On the Web site you can search NYT book reviews back to 1980, check the latest bestseller list, or join The Round Table, a discussion forum about books. The paper is also in the library (on microfilm), 1852-present. Location: Periodicals Department, 4th floor

eLocation: The Times Literary Supplement (London Times)

Online access by subscription only. The paper is in the library (on microfilm), 1960-present. Location: Periodicals Department, 4th floor

eLocation: USA Today Bookshelf

eLocation: Book Browser: The Guide for Avid Readers

The Reading Lists section includes Series and sequels, which lists popular authors of series; If you Like ... Try, which covers Authors by Genre (Espionage, Thriller, etc.), Sleuths by Occupation, Titles by Topic (baseball, vampires, gambling), Oprah's Book Club Titles, Diverse Detectives, and afro-american mystery authors; Place and Time, titles arranged by location or era; and Best Of, which lists award winners in popular fiction genres. Book Browser also includes book reviews and information about authors.

eLocation: Books Featured in the Media

Links to Amazon.com information for books discussed on National Public Radio programs, Oprah's Book Club, BookTV, the Today Show, and numerous newspapers, magazines, and other media sources.

Novelist

eLocation: "N"Databases Access: Available off campus with NKU login. Coverage: NoveList is an electronic readers' advisory resource which assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles. It is searchable by title, author or keyword.

Location: Periodicals Department, 4th floor

eLocation: Publisher's Weekly Bestseller List Publisher's Weekly is a magazine covering the publishing industry.

Electronic Texts

eLocation: Electronic Texts and Publishing Resources

The Library of Congress produces this list of electronic texts and publishing resources.

eLocation: American Studies @ the University of Virginia: Hypertexts

E-texts in this collection are produced primarily by students at the University of Virginia. Note this caveat: "none of the texts are scholarly editions; some of them are uneven in quality and reliability; none are meant to offer a satisfactory alternative to printed texts."

eLocation: Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities

A directory of Electronic Text Centers.

eLocation: The English Server

Publishes texts in the arts and humanities. Texts are produced by volunteers. Collections include art, architecture, drama, fiction, poetry, history, political theory, cultural studies, philosophy, women's studies and music.

eLocation: On-line Books Page

The Online Books Page relies on volunteers to submit and proof electronic texts. There is no attempt made to post scholarly editions of works.

eLocation: Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg relies on volunteers to submit and proof electronic texts. There is no attempt made to post scholarly editions of works.

eLocation: The Avalon Project

A collection of American documents in the fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government, maintained by Yale Law School.

eLocation: Douglass

An electronic archive of American oratory and related documents.

eLocation: Gifts of Speech

Women's speeches from around the world. Maintained at Sweet Briar College.

Library Catalogs

WorldCat

eLocation: "W"Databases Access: Available off campus with NKU login Coverage: Some items as early as 12th century. Updated daily. WorldCat is a very large database of books and other materials owned by libraries worldwide -- essentially an international online library catalog. Includes over 39 million items.

Location: Local Libraries and Their Catalogs

Steely Librarys' links to other library catalogs in the Greater Cincinnati area and elsewhere.

updated on 11/03/03