Do you want book reviews on a specific topic? Articles+ is an excellent place to do that! Articles+ can see about 80% of YUL online subscriptions to magazines, scholarly and trade journals, newspapers, and other types of documents. When you're looking for information about a book, this makes it a good first start. You can either get to Articles+ through Quicksearch or use the menu on the main library page to visit the Articles+-only search box. (I have the URL bookmarked.)
This guide will show you how to find book reviews within a specific topic. When you know the title of a book you want to look up, the other tab (for specific book titles) will be more helpful to you.
First, search for your topic on Articles+. This is a search for neutrino oscillations.
On the results screen, navigate to Content Type. Here, I've used the search box to search for "review." Note that Articles+ has a filter for Book Reviews. There is another type of review (a review article) that is very important in many sciences for synthesizing known information about a topic. Articles+ doesn't distinguish between review articles and original research articles, but databases like the Web of Science or Scopus do. Ask for more information from your librarian if you want to learn more.
Select the check box next to "Book Review" to limit your search to book reviews.
These are your results below. From here, you can further refine the results on the left, and you can also change your search. In Articles+, the filters won't reset themselves unless you tell them to.
If you want to explore what you can do with this search, please click here to go directly to the filtered search results for neutrino oscillations.
Click on Quick Look to view more information about any of the results. Within Quick Look, you can use the forward and back arrows to page through the results, or you can exit Quick Look to scroll through the results ensemble.
Let's say you're looking up a book title related to a paper in your class (or you just want to read something out of your subject area for fun). You've found some Amazon and Goodreads reviews on a popular science book, but you're wondering what people in the scientific community might be saying. How do you look up a specific book title in Articles+?
The best way to match a title for book reviews is not to use the Publication Title filter, though (located in the advanced search) — while reviewers will often include a book title in the title of their review, that's not always a guarantee. We will be using quotation marks to search for a book title as a phrase, in this case, Cosmological Koans.
From the results screen, navigate to Content Type on the lefthand side. In this search, Book Review is visible — note that sometimes, you may have many types of content in the results, so Book Review may be hidden in a More… menu.
Once you have limited the results, you will usually see reviews related to the book you are interested in. Sometimes, for more common titles, you will want to modify your search. Changing this to "cosmological koans" AND Aguirre would remove many extraneous results.
If you want to explore the search results on your own, please visit the Articles+ results page here.
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