Primary Cinema Studies Databases & Article Indexes

MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO)
Also Known as: Modern Language Association Bibliography, MLAIB
Covers literature, languages, folklore, and linguistics. Includes English and foreign languages. ...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: Covers 1963 to the present. New records are added ten times a year.

Art Full Text
Also Known as: Wilson Art Fulltext
Art. Coverage includes English-language periodicals, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. Reproductions of works of art that appear in in...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: Indexing 1984+, Abstracting 1994+, select Full Text 1997+

EBSCO MegaFILE
General, multidisciplinary fulltext periodical database, covering all scholarly disciplines, with many general and popular magazines, and news sources. Includes bibliographic citations with indexing a...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: Coverage varies: mostly 1990s to present.

FIAF International FilmArchive Database
Also Known as: International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF), Index Film Periodicals 1972-3/2007, Index TV Periodicals 1979-3/2007, Treasures from the Film Archives
FIAF International Film Archive Database is published by the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) and contains several databases: the International Index to Film Periodicals, the Internati...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Supplemental URLs
    new interface effective July 1, 2009!

Film Literature Index Online
Contains approximately 700,000 citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews on film, tv, and video published between 1976-2001. ...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1976-2001
Unrestricted Access

LexisNexis Academic
Also Known as: lexis/nexis, Lexis-Nexis, Lexis Nexis,
Access to full-text national and international newspapers , including the New York Times, and the Times of London business and accounting information, biographical data, and some selected legal mat...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Supplemental URLs
    old interface url

Readers' Guide Retrospective
Also Known as: readers guide, reader's guide, wilson
Provides comprehensive indexing of the popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States, such as Time, Newsweek, New Republic, National Review, ...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]

Important Cinema Studies Databases & Article Indexes

Alternative Press Index
Also Known as: Altpress Index
Indexes over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Includes selected abstracts from research journals. ...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1991 to present

American Film Institute Catalog
Also Known as: afi catalog
American film information for the years 1893-1972 produced by the American Film Institute (AFI). The film experts at AFI update and add new records twice yearly and are working on completing their cov...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]

American Film Institute Database
Also Known as: afi
Access available at Annenberg Library only
The premier online resource for members and alumni of the American Film Institute. ...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Unrestricted Access

ARTstor
The ARTstor collection includes approximately 500,000 images of works of art, architecture and archaeology along with the necessary software to view the images, create personal groups of images and cr...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Supplemental URLs
    Help - technical help
    Help - general index

Communication & Mass Media Complete
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Communication Abstracts
- from CSA Databases
Bibliographic citations with abstracts on all areas of communication studies. Topics include advertising, communication theory, mass communication, public communication, journalism and media studies, ...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1998-present.
Supplemental URLs
    ALTERNATIVE ACCESS via ECO e-journal collection

Film Studies Resources (UC Berkeley)
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Unrestricted Access

Filmlink.de
"Online-Informationsressourcen der Film- und Fernsehwissenschaft"...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Unrestricted Access

Francis
Also Known as: Bulletin signaletique
- from CSA Databases
Francis covers a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities and social sciences. It is strong in religion, the history of art, and literature with emphasis on cur...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1984 to the present. Updated monthly.
Supplemental URLs
    New interface effective Sept 1, 2007
    Eureka interface through mid-September 2007

ISI Citation Indexes (Web of Science)
Also Known as: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Web of Science, SSCI, SCI, AHCI,ISI
Indexes journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Allows for cited reference searching. Includes Science Citation Index, the Social Science Citation Index[more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)--1945-present, Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--1956-present, Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)--1975-present. Updated weekly.
Supplemental URLs
    ISI Citation Indexes Tutorial
    Cited Reference Searching Tutorial

Related Cinema Studies Databases & Article Indexes

ARTbibliographies Modern
Also Known as: ART bibliographies Modern
- from CSA Databases
Scope extends from artists and movements beginning with Impressionism in the late nineteenth century, up to the most recent works and trends in the twenty-first century. Photography is covered from it...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1974-present

Bibliography of Asian Studies
- from publisher website
All subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, South Asia, and Indian Ocean countries....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1971 to the present.

CIOS/Comserve
Also Known as: Communication Institute for Online Scholarship, Electronic Journal of Communication, ComIndex, ComAbstracts
CIOS/Comserve is an online resource for communication scholars containing several services, including an index to 27 key communication periodicals, the Electronic Journal of Communication, a full te...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: Dates of coverage vary, earliest indexed journal begins in 1962.

Global Books in Print
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Holdings: Updated weekly.

Handbook of Latin American Studies
Also Known as: HLAS
Bibliography of works on Latin America selected by scholars and edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Covers anthropology (including archaeology, ethnohistory and ethnology), ar...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1935 to the present. Updated monthly.
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    rlg interface 03/01/05

Hispanic American Periodicals Index
Also Known as: HAPI
Subjects covered include anthropology, archaeology, anthropology, banking and finance, business, commerce, drama, drug trade, economic development, environmental issues, ethnography, folklore, geogr...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1970 to the present. Updated weekly.

Historical Abstracts
Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada)....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: ca. 1974- present. Updated three times a year.
Supplemental URLs
    ABC-CLIO access
    EbscoHost access

Periodicals Index Online
Also Known as: PIO,PCI,Periodical Contents Index,Chadwyck PCI,Periodicals Contents Index
Humanities and social sciences. The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages. ...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]

Proquest Dissertations and Theses Fulltext (formerly Dissertation Abstracts)
Also Known as: Digital Dissertations, Dissertation Abstracts, UMI, DAI, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (PQDT), Proquest Dissertations and Theses Fulltext
Indexing (since 1861) and abstracting (since 1980) for doctoral-level dissertations completed at North American universities. Page images or fulltext of all available dissertations - including Penn d...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: Indexing 1861-present, abstracts 1980-present, page-image or fulltext PDF for available dissertations dissertations from 1997 to the present.
Supplemental URLs
    old interface url

Sociological Abstracts
Also Known as: SocAbs soc abs
- from CSA Databases
Covers sociology, case work, demographics, policy studies, political science, family studies, feminist studies, and social security programs....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1963 to the present. Updated bimonthly.
Supplemental URLs
    Serials List (CSA)
    Classification Codes (CSA)