Media Studies Materials
Where to Search for Journal Articles, Essays and Other Media
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Communication and Mass Media CompleteIndexes hundreds of communication and media journals with full-text for many articles.
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Business Source CompleteLeading source for scholarly articles in business and management.
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America: History and LifeCovers US & Canadian history, prehistory-present. Indexes articles, book reviews, essay collections, dissertations, media; with abstracts.
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Film Literature Index700,000 citations to articles, film reviews, and book reviews published between 1976-2001 (multi-lingual)
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Historical AbstractsCovers world history (excluding US & Canada), 1450-present. Indexes and abstracts of articles, books, essay collections, dissertations, media.
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FIAF International Index to Film PeriodicalsCovers academic and popular sources for film criticism.
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MLA International BibliographyIndexes over 4,000 journals in the fields of literature, linguistics, folklore, and cultural studies. 1926 - present.
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JSTORFull text of articles in many fields. Most recent 5 years are excluded.
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Women’s Studies InternationalIndexes journals, books, dissertations, newspapers, reports and proceedings in the field of women's studies.
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Project MUSEA collection of major journals in the humanities and social sciences. Coverage is roughly from 2000 to the present.
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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.
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ACM Digital LibraryPortal to ACM publications, including journals and conferences.
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EuropeanaResources from hundreds of European repositories.
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DOCUBASEExplore interactive documentaries!
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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.
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PodcastREA free, searchable archive of podcasts.
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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.
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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
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Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and CriticismOverview and historical survey of literary and cultural theory from Plato to postmodernism. Coverage is international.
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Gale Literature Resource CenterIncludes biographical and critical material on thousands of literary authors of all periods and many geographical areas.
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Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and PoeticsCovers all aspects of poetry, including terminology and history. 2012 edition.
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