Book Reviews

Reviews of Education Books and Media

• Chronicle of Higher Education
  The Research and Books section offers reviews of scholarly works, lists of best-selling books on campus, and other features, including a list of publishers addresses.
• Education Review
  The Education Review is a freely accessible all-electronic journal of book reviews hosted at Arizona State University. An email alert service is available.
• Educational Media Reviews Online (EMRO)
  Sponsored by the Libraries at SUNY-Buffalo, this is a freely available database of reviews of videos, DVDs and CD-ROMs from major educational and documentary distributors. Reviews are written primarily by librarians and faculty from institutions across the U.S. and Canada. It was formerly The AV Review Database of MC Journal: The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship.
• Harvard Educational Review
  Selected content from the current issue, including book reviews, is freely available at the journal's website. Because the Library subscribes to the journal, (L11.H33 Regenstein 4th Floor Reading Room for bound volumes and 2nd floor Reading Room for current issues), those with UofC computing accounts can access electronic full-text dating back to 1993 (follow the instructions to log on).
• Lion and the Unicorn
  This is a journal, published three times per year, that is devoted to scholarly discussion of children's literature. It includes book reviews. The online full-text (restricted to UofC) is from Project Muse. The recent issues of the print copy locate in Regenstein Reading Room 2nd floor, and the bound volumes are in the bookstacks [PN1009.A1L76].
  
• Teachers College Record
  From Columbia University Teachers College, the website of the journal offers many features, including book reviews. Free registration is required and an email alert service is available. The website includes a large number of "content collections" with book reviews, full-text articles, links to websites and more. The Library subscribes to the journal in print (L11.T41 Regenstein Bookstacks, current issues in 2nd floor Reading Room). Use the Library's Find It! service to locate the options for online full-text.

Other Sources for Book Reviews

• How do I find book reviews?
  A comprehensive guide to locating book reviews using Library databases.