For an online index, like the Academic Search Premier, you simply enter the significant words or portion of the title (e.g. cold mountain) and the word reviews.

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For a print index, like Book Review Index, you need to look up the author's name in the volume of the index that contains entries for the year your book was published. To be complete, you should also try looking for reviews published one to four years after the book was published, as sometimes there is a delay between the publication of a book and when it gets reviewed.

Both online and print indexes will provide you with a book review citation, which will tell you where and when the book review was published. A book review citation will look something like this:

Cold Mountain. (book reviews) James Gardner. National Review Dec 31, 1997 v49 n25 p54(2)

This citation tells you that the review of Cold Mountain was written by James Gardner and published in the periodical National Review on December 31, 1997.

The last step is to find out if the University of Minnesota subscribes to the National Review for that date. To do this, you will need to check MNCAT for the periodical title, National Review.

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