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Electronic Journals
Journal Databases, Indexes, and Abstracts (Multi-Subject)
Other Web Sites
 

Full-Text Electronic Journals

[Available on campus and through proxy server ]

         Camera Obscura - Provides feminist perspective on film, television, and
           visual media.  Full-text (2000-2003)

        Cinema Journal - Full-text (1999-2003)

Critical Quarterly   Full-text (1997-2003)

Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television Full-text (1999-2003)

The Lion and the Unicorn Full-text (1995-2003)

The Moving Image - an exciting new journal that deals with crucial issues surrounding the preservation and restoration of film, television, video, and digital moving images. The journal offers detailed profiles of moving image collections, behind-the-scenes looks at the techniques used to preserve and restore moving images, and theoretical and visionary articles on the future of the field.  Full-text (2003- )

PAJ - Journal of Performance and Art Full-text (1996-2003)

Screen - Has searchable table of contents online for 1996 and after.

Wide Angle - Full-text (1996-1999) 


Journal Databases, Indexes, and Abstracts (Multi-Subject)
 

        Trial Databases   - A rotating list of databases available for limited time
        periods.  It is a good idea to check this page for resources that might 
        be useful for your research.

EBSCO
Includes Academic Search Premier, a scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full text database designed specifically for academic institutions.  Coverage includes nearly all academic areas of study - social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies, etc.  Other databases are included and multiple databases can be search simultaneously.
[Available on campus and through proxy server

Ethnic NewsWatch
Ethnic NewsWatch is a full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. 
[Available on campus and through proxy server

JSTOR
Offers full-text articles from the humanities and the social sciences. 
[Available on campus and through the proxy server .] 

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Find articles from newspapers and magazines around the world and legal information for your term papers.  Film reviews are available.
[Available on campus and through proxy server

netLibrary
http://www.netlibrary.com/
- An electronic library containing hundreds of electronic books.
[Available on and off campus.] 

Project Muse
Research different subjects in over 100 online journals. 
[Available on campus only.] 

Science Direct
http://www.sciencedirect.com/
Abstracts and full-text journal articles in all fields.  Topics covered are the arts and humanities, the social sciences, the physical sciences, environmental sciences, etc.
[Available on campus and through the proxy server .] 

WorldCat
Records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century. 
[Available on campus and through the proxy server .] 

Other Web Sites

       American Film Institute (AFI)
       http://www.AFI.com/

        Asian American Film & Video
        http://www.asianamericanfilm.com/
        - Created to build an engaged, involved, active, and excited audience for Asian American           films, the site provides reviews, news, events calendar, browsable film database, and                 Minute Movies, supershort Asian American films online.

        Asian American Film & Video Database
        http://www.asianamericanfilm.com/filmdatabase/index.html
        - A directory of Asian American films arranged by title or director, including films in               production.

        Based on the Book
       http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/readers/movies/
       - A database of selected movies based on books.  View the database by
       title or author of book, title of movie, or the year of its release. Covers
       about 500 films made from 1980 through projected releases in 2003. 

      Film Festivals
          http://www.documentaryfilms.net/festivals.htm 
          - Documentary and others. 

       Film Finder
       http://www.allmovie.com/avg_film_finder.html
         - Search for films by performers, author or original source, setting, and 
       producer, etc. 

       Filmmaker Resources
         http://www.documentaryfilms.net/filmmakers.htm
        - Links to useful websites for filmmakers.

       Independent Feature Project
       http://www.ifp.org/

       Internet Movie Database
       http://www.imdb.com

        Movie review Query Engine
        http://www.mrqe.com/ 
         - Film reviews from newspapers, magazines, and the internet. 

        New York Times Film Section Online
        http://www.nytimes.com/pages/movies/index.html 
        - Links to past film reviews are on the page as well as links to the recent 
       stories and reviews.  Free registration is required.

       Official Film Sites
       http://www.documentaryfilms.net/filmsites.htm

Society for Cinema Studies
http://www.cinemastudies.org/
- Devoted to the scholarly study of film, television, video, and new 
media.
 

Comments? Questions? Sites that should be added? 
Contact Professor Jocelyn Berger-Barrera




 
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