Databases for Film Studies

• Academic Search Complete
  A very large, multidisciplinary database, which includes scholarly
  journals as well as newspapers and popular magazines. Indexes well over
  8,000 journal titles, including more than 4,700 full text journals.
  Covers area studies, arts, creative writing, education, film, history, humanities, journalism, language and linguistics, literature, performing arts, philosophy, sociology, and many other disciplines.
  
  
• Art Full Text
  Although primarily an Art database it does include the full text of 17 academic film journals. It comprises the bibliographic contents of 280 leading Art journals, museum bulletins and yearbooks. Coverage is from 1984 as an index, with added abstracts from 1994 to the present. It is updated monthly. Subject coverage spans all aspects of art, from visual to performing arts, and ranges from archaeology to television and video.
  
  
• BFI in View
  Over 2,000 non-fiction film and television titles from the 20th century to the early 21st. InView is easily searchable, comprehensively catalogued and clearly organised under six main themes, each with an introductory essay by an academic historian.
  
  
• Communication and Mass Media Complete
  This database indexes and provides abstracts for articles from over 400 journals in the field of communications and mass media, including film, radio, television and journalism. Also includes links to full text for many journal articles. Many journals are covered from their first issues to the present.
  
  
• Humanities International Complete
  The database indexes more than 2000 journals and includes full text for 670 journals. Humanities International Complete is an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and educators interested in all aspects of the humanities, with worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought.
  
  
• IIPA - International Index to the Performing Arts Full Text
  This service indexes the main film journals and has an extensive backfile; abstracts are included from 1998. Some journals are available in full text.
  
  
• Newsfilmonline
  Downloadable news footage for use in UK Higher education from ITN and Reuters archives. free until 2012.

Indexes - to help you find book references and periodical articles. These databases index most of the journals in the world on the subject; the University only subscribes to a proportion of these. So what you find may not be kept in the Learning Centre. In this case, ask for an Interlibrary loan or, better still, go the British Film Institute Library.

• Art Abstracts
  Although primarily an Art database it does index 18 of the main academic film journals in the world. It comprises the bibliographic contents of 280 leading Art journals, museum bulletins and yearbooks. Coverage is from 1984 as an index, with added abstracts from 1994 to the present. It is updated monthly. Subject coverage spans all aspects of art, from visual to performing arts, and ranges from archaeology to television and video.

• IIPA - International Index to the Performing Arts Full Text
  This service indexes the main film journals and has an extensive backfile; abstracts are included from 1998. Some journals are available in full text.

• MLA International Bibliography Provides references on literature, language, film and theatre. Full references are given to articles in over 3,500 journals; to books and to book chapters, and to theses. Can be used from inside and outside the University.

Other datasets/indexes can be found on the Electronic Information Resources page.

Newspapers are good sources for reviews. Links to backfiles of the Broadsheet newspapers are available under Newspapers and Current Affairs on the library web site.