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Book Review Digest Retrospective

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CONTENT Well-established standards for authoritative book reviews, H.W. Wilson's Book Review Digest Plus and its related Retrospective database are now available on the EBSCOhost platform as a result of EBSCO's recent purchase of H.W. Wilson.

Book Review Digest Plus includes citation information, substantial excerpts, and full-text reviews of current works of fiction, nonfiction, humanities, social science, and general science for both children and adults.

Culled from a core title list of more than 100 popular, scholarly, and specialty English-language journals, the reviews are also supplemented by reviews from 8000-plus periodicals included in other databases. The material is updated daily for a total of more than 118,000 new reviews annually.

The interface displays "master" records for each book, with links to reviews from various sources including Library Journal, Booklist, the Economist, Film Quarterly, Historian, Kirkus Reviews, and the New York Times Book Review. Positive and negative reviews are included, and every title in Book Review Digest Plus appears with all of its reviews together. Some titles have only one review citation, while others include descriptive summaries and numerous reviews, plus excerpts and full text, depending on the coverage originally received.

The Plus database extends back to 1983 and covers art history and criticism, architecture and architectural history, archaeology, antiques, museum studies, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, folk...