Information Resources for Film Studies

Best Resources for Finding Articles

• New York Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
  • Full page and article images with searchable full text; articles from the first issue, Sept. 18, 1851, through 2004. Some articles and photographs by freelance writers and photographers are not included.
• Ethnic NewsWatch
  • Articles, editorials, reviews, etc. from newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press. Search in English or Spanish. 1990- present.
• GenderWatch
  • Full text collection of articles covering women's and gender topics.
• LexisNexis Academic
  • Index and full text to news, business, legal, medical, and reference materials and links to congressional and statistical information.
• Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
  • Indexes 7,800+ scholarly journals, with full text for 4,000 titles. Covers social sciences, humanities, education, computer science and engineering, general science, medicine, ethnic studies, and more. 1965- present for selected titles. (To search multiple EBSCOhost databases, click the "Select Databases" tab.)
• Alt-Press Watch
  • Indexes newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press. Covers a broad range of critical issues confronting contemporary society. 1994- present.
• Nation Digital Archive
  • Search issues of The Nation from 1865-2004. Browse by date, author, or subject. Full-text available, excluding most recent 1 month.
• Art Abstracts (EBSCOHost)
  • Citations and abstracts from more than 450 international English language arts publications. Content includes periodical articles, interviews, film reviews, and more. 1984- present. (To search multiple EBSCOhost databases, click the "Select Databases" tab.)
• Arts & Humanities Search
  • A citation index covering over 1,136 titles from leading arts and humanities journals. Includes the ability to search particular authors' works to find out who is citing them. 1980- present.

Additional Resources for Finding Articles & Other Information

• America History & Life
  • Index of journal articles, dissertations and book reviews on all aspects of North American history (United States and Canada). 1964- present. (To search multiple EBSCOhost databases, click the "Select Databases" tab.)
• ECO - Electronic Collections Online (Electronic Journals)
  • Indexes 5,400+ scholarly journals in a wide range of subjects. Abstracts and full-text are available for approximately 400 journals to which UNR subscribes. To limit results to these journals, check the "full-text" box. 1995- present.
• Article1st
  • Index to 12,600 + journals pertaining to science, medicine, technology, social science, business, humanities, and popular culture. Now includes journal Tables of Contents (formerly in Contents1st). 1990 - present.
• Book Review Index Online Plus
  • Over 5 million book review citations from magazines and scholarly journals, with links to full-text for over 630,000 reviews.
• Dissertations & Theses: Full Text (formerly Dissertation Abstracts)
  • ProQuest Dissertations and Theses — Full text is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. It includes 2.4 million dissertation and theses citations from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1 million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works.
• WorldCat
  • A catalog of library materials in all formats from libraries all over the United States and the world. Contains more than 61 million items.
• Ingenta
  • Indexes more than 20,000 journals covering all subject areas, with tables of contents for the journals included.

Electronic Books

• Aesthetics in Feminist Perspective
• Careers for Writers & Others Who Have a Way with Words
• Censorship in America: A Reference Handbook
• Everything You Need to Know About Media Violence
• Media Knowledge: Readings in Popular Culture, Pedagoy, and Critical Citizenship
• Oxford English Dictionary
  • The complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition OED. Quarterly updates of the in-progress third edition. Entries include etymology, usage quotes, and date charts.
• Representations of Jews Through the Ages
• Speaking the Unspeakable: A Poetics of Obscenity
• Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body
• Working at Writing: Columnists and Critics Composing