eResources by Subject: Film Studies

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• Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text

  Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text is a comprehensive bibliographic and full text database covering the entire spectrum of television and film. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: 1988 - present
• Communication & Mass Media Complete

  Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. CMMC incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: 1915 - present (varies by publication); updated annually
• Film Literature Index

  Film Literature Index Online annually indexes 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries cover-to-cover and 200 other periodicals selectively for articles on film and television.

  Free Resource [Details] Coverage Dates: 1976 - 2001
• America: History & Life

  Covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada

  [Details] Coverage Dates: 1964 - present
• JSTOR

  Archive of selected scholarly journals in ecology, economics, history, mathematics, music, political science, statistics, and other humanities and social sciences.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by publication
• Historical Abstracts

  Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: 1955 - present
• Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective

  Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective is a bibliographic database that cites articles from English-language periodicals from some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: 1907-1984
• Project MUSE

  Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, to high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from scholarly publishers.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by title; updated monthly
• IIPA Full Text

  International Index to the Performing Arts Full Text is a performing arts journal resource with nearly 350,000 indexed articles, plus detailed abstracts and full text, covering film, theatre and dance.
  
  

  [Details] Coverage Dates: 1864 - present
• American Film Institute Catalog

  The AFI Catalog is a unique filmographic resource providing an unmatched level of comprehensiveness and detail on every feature-length film produced in America or financed by American production companies. Detailed information on cast, crew, plot summaries, subjects, genres and historical notes are included for each film.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by publication
• Cinema Image Gallery

  Cinema Image Gallery is a vital tool for research into the history of movie and television images, providing some of the most exciting examples of period and contemporary design–from classics and blockbusters to B movies.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: n/a
• Film Index International

  Film Index International is a major information resource for entertainment films and personalities produced in collaboration with the British Film Institute.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: n/a
• Arts and Humanities Citation Index

  Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: 1975 - present
• New York Times Archive

  Digital archives for the New York Times

  [Details] Coverage Dates: 1851-2007

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• Cambridge Journals Online

  Cambridge Journals Online is the online Cambridge University Press’s collection of several journals across the sciences, social sciences and humanities. 

  [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by publication
• Electronic Journal Service (EJS)

  Search through EBSCO's database of scholarly e-journals.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by publication
• LexisNexis Academic

  News, business, legal and reference information.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: 1970 - present; updated continuously
• Oxford English Dictionary

  The Oxford English Dictionary is the world's leading authority on the history and development of the English language since 1150.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: latest edition
• Readers' Guide Retrospective

  Readers' Guide Retrospective is a database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. 3 simultaneous users.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: 1890 - 1982

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• Academic Search Complete

  Academic Search Complete offers critical information from many sources unique to this massive collection. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full-text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by publication
• Intellect

  Intellect offers online access to several journals in the humanities.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by title
• MasterFILE Complete

  This multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,000 general reference publications with full-text information dating as far back as 1922.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: 1975 - present
• PBS Video Collection

  You can now view nearly 250 quality PBS programs covering a wide variety of topics. These videos are viewable from any computer running Flash Player version 9 or higher with a relatively good Internet connection (at least 175 Kbps). Unfortunately, it will not be possible to view the videos over a dial-up Internet line.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: n/a
• WorldCat

  Books and other materials in libraries worldwide.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: 1200 - present; Updated daily