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Article databases

NameDescription
Academic Search CompleteMulti-disciplinary coverage. Over 5,500 full text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF content going back to 1887. Searchable cited references for nearly 1,000 journals. EBSCOhost
Communication & Mass Media CompleteIncorporates the content of CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study. Full text for 326 journals. EBSCOhost
Essay and General Literature IndexCitations for essays and chapters contained in books. Click "Library Owns?" icon to search for call numbers and availability of books. Coverage in the humanities and social sciences. H. W. Wilson
Humanities International CompleteMore than 2,000 journals and 2 million records, plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. Full text for more than 730 journals. EBSCOhost
JSTOR Access to Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV, and VII, as well as the Ecology & Botany collection. Full text.
MLA International BibliographyMore than 1.7 million citations to journal articles, books, and dissertations from 1963 to the present. Coverage in language, literature, folklore, linguistics, literary theory and criticism, and the dramatic arts. Gale Group/Modern Language Association
NetLibraryAccess to more than 50,000 digitized books. Search by title, author, keyword, Library of Congress subject heading, publisher, or ISBN. Full-text searching is also available. OCLC
OmniFile Full Text MegaCitations, abstracts, and full text for thousands of popular and scholarly sources, including articles, reviews, books, and more. Multi-disciplinary coverage. H. W. Wilson
Project MuseBasic Undergraduate Collection. Full text access to 125 peer-reviewed journals in the humanities and social sciences. PLEASE NOTE: not all titles are available in full text. Check "Only content I have full access to" for full text access only.
WorldCatSearch for materials in hundreds of libraries. Books, websites, computer programs, films, slides, journals, magazines, papers, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, newspapers, sound recordings, videotapes. Coverage from before 1000 BC to the present. OCLC

LC classification system

P87-96 - Communication. Mass media PN - Literature - General
PN1600-3307 - Drama PN1993-1999 - Motion pictures
TR - Photography

Reference books

BookCall number
New York Times Film Reviews [3 volumes: 1932-1938, 1939-1948, 1949-1958]REF PN1995 .N4

Web resources

All Movie Guide
Documentary Films about American Folk Culture
EarlyCinema.Com
International Arts Resources from Artslynx
Internet Movie Database
Metacritic.com
Performing Arts Encyclopedia (Library of Congress)
Rotten Tomatoes
Silent Era: Silent Film website