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Communication and Mass Media Complete
Indexes hundreds of communication and media journals with full-text for many articles.
Business Source Complete
Leading source for scholarly articles in business and management.
America: History and Life
Covers US & Canadian history, prehistory-present. Indexes articles, book reviews, essay collections, dissertations, media; with abstracts.
Film Literature Index
700,000 citations to articles, film reviews, and book reviews published between 1976-2001 (multi-lingual)
Historical Abstracts
Covers world history (excluding US & Canada), 1450-present. Indexes and abstracts of articles, books, essay collections, dissertations, media.
FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals
Covers academic and popular sources for film criticism.
MLA International Bibliography
Indexes over 4,000 journals in the fields of literature, linguistics, folklore, and cultural studies. 1926 - present.
JSTOR
Full text of articles in many fields. Most recent 5 years are excluded.
Women’s Studies International
Indexes journals, books, dissertations, newspapers, reports and proceedings in the field of women's studies.
Project MUSE
A collection of major journals in the humanities and social sciences. Coverage is roughly from 2000 to the present.
Sociological Abstracts
Standard 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 Library
Portal to ACM publications, including journals and conferences.
Europeana
Resources from hundreds of European repositories.
DOCUBASE
Explore interactive documentaries!
Academic Search Complete
A multi-disciplinary database which indexes and abstracts periodicals, peer-reviewed journals, books, and other publications and provides thousands of full-text articles.
PodcastRE
A free, searchable archive of podcasts.
Kanopy
Streaming 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 Library
A free online resource, featuring millions of pages of books and magazines from the histories of film, broadcasting, and recorded sound.

Handbooks, Dictionaries, and Guides

The Oxford Companion to the Book
Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media
Encyclopedia of Politics, the Media, and Popular Culture
Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels
Encyclopedia of Communication Theory
Culture Wars: an Encyclopedia of Issues, Viewpoints and Voices
St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
2nd ed.
UXL Graphic Novelists -
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
Overview and historical survey of literary and cultural theory from Plato to postmodernism. Coverage is international.
Gale Literature Resource Center
Includes biographical and critical material on thousands of literary authors of all periods and many geographical areas.
Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
Covers all aspects of poetry, including terminology and history. 2012 edition.

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