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Databases

Academic Search Premier
Index of nearly 8,000 scholarly journals and popular magazines in all areas of study. Includes the full text for more than 4,600 titles. Coverage varies by publication.
Art & Architecture Source
Combines the content of Art Index, Art Abstracts, Art Full Text, Art Index Retrospective, and Art & Architecture Complete to include over 770 full-text journals, more than 220 full-text books, an image collection, and podcasts from leading museums on artists and individual works of art. Coverage: 1921-present.
Communications and Mass Media
Search for articles covering all aspects of communications, including advertising, public relations, and more.
Provided by the New York State Library, NOVELny is a Statewide Internet Library connecting New Yorkers to 21st century information. NOVELny is supported with temporary federal Library Services and Technology Act funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database
Indexes hundreds of academic and popular film journals. Also includes the International Index to TV Periodicals, 1979-1998. Coverage: 1972-present.
Humanities and Social Science Index Retrospective
Index of articles and book reviews from important scholarly journals. Coverage 1907-1984.
JSTOR
Full text of leading academic journals from the humanities, social sciences, and sciences dating back as far as 1665. Hamilton provides access to 17 JSTOR collections with more than 2,300 titles. Journal runs are complete from volume one up to the most recently published issues (past 5 years), which must be accessed elsewhere.
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MLA International Bibliography
Index of books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, film, and linguistics. Coverage: 1926-present.
Readers' Guide Retrospective
Index to the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States during the 20th century. To find reviews published during a film's initial release, enter the movie title in one search box and the phrase "motion picture reviews" in another.
Web of Science
Index of articles from over 10,000 journals in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. In addition to multidisciplinary searches, Web of Science provides tools to track citations to individual articles from their date of publication to the present. Now includes Book Citation Index and Conference Proceedings Citation Index. Coverage: 1900-present.
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Journals and Magazines

Journal of Religion and Film
A peer-reviewed journal committed to the study of connections between the medium of film and the phenomena of religion, however those are defined.

Variety
Recognized and respected throughout the world of show business, Variety is the premier source of entertainment news. Since 1905, the most influential leaders in the industry have turned to Variety for timely, credible and straightforward news and analysis — information vital to their professions.

Books

Film Review Index
Call Number: Ref PN1995 .F463
Retrospective bibliography of articles on films released between 1882 and 1985 that have established themselves as being of high interest to researchers and students.