Media Studies Materials
Where to Search for Journal Articles, Essays and Other Media
- Communication and Mass Media CompleteIndexes hundreds of communication and media journals with full-text for many articles.
- Business Source CompleteLeading source for scholarly articles in business and management.
- America: History and LifeCovers US & Canadian history, prehistory-present. Indexes articles, book reviews, essay collections, dissertations, media; with abstracts.
- Film Literature Index700,000 citations to articles, film reviews, and book reviews published between 1976-2001 (multi-lingual)
- Historical AbstractsCovers world history (excluding US & Canada), 1450-present. Indexes and abstracts of articles, books, essay collections, dissertations, media.
- FIAF International Index to Film PeriodicalsCovers academic and popular sources for film criticism.
- MLA International BibliographyIndexes over 4,000 journals in the fields of literature, linguistics, folklore, and cultural studies. 1926 - present.
- JSTORFull text of articles in many fields. Most recent 5 years are excluded.
- Project MUSEA collection of major journals in the humanities and social sciences. Coverage is roughly from 2000 to the present.
- Sociological AbstractsStandard tool for sociology and related disciplines. Abstracts and indexing of journals, book reviews, abstracts for books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. 1952-present.
- ACM Digital LibraryPortal to ACM publications, including journals and conferences.
- EuropeanaResources from hundreds of European repositories.
- DOCUBASEExplore interactive documentaries!
- Academic Search CompleteA multi-disciplinary database which indexes and abstracts periodicals, peer-reviewed journals, books, and other publications and provides thousands of full-text articles.
- PodcastREA free, searchable archive of podcasts.
- KanopyStreaming video service with documentary and feature films from producers such as Criterion, Documentary Educational Resources, New Day Films, Media Education, California Newsreel, PBS and others.
- Media History Digital LibraryA free online resource, featuring millions of pages of books and magazines from the histories of film, broadcasting, and recorded sound.
Handbooks, Dictionaries, and Guides
- Oxford Bibliographies: Cinema and Media StudiesOverview of topics in film and media studies, including recommendations for important articles and books.
- Oxford Blbliographies: CommunicationFrom publisher: "Offers peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on the study of communication as a multidisciplinary effort to understand the constant, varied, and complex transmission and exchange of information, knowledge, and ideas."
- Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and CriticismOverview and historical survey of literary and cultural theory from Plato to postmodernism. Coverage is international.
- Gale Literature Resource CenterIncludes biographical and critical material on thousands of literary authors of all periods and many geographical areas.
- Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and PoeticsCovers all aspects of poetry, including terminology and history. 2012 edition.
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