ONLINE FILM JOURNALS AND JOURNAL ARTICLE DATABASES

Afterimage (2 sources)

Expanded Academic Full text

American Filmy. Animation: an interdisciplinary journal

Australian Screen Education Full text

Camera Obscura (4 sources)

Highwire/Duke University Pr. Full text

Expanded Academic Full text

Project Muse Full text

Scholars Portal Full text

Canadian Journal of Film Studies Full text

Cineaction Full text

Cineaste (2 sources)

ProQuest Full text

Expanded Academic Full text

Cinema Journal (4 sources)

JSTOR Full text

Project Muse Full text

ProQuest Full text

Scholars Portal Full text

Continuum: journal of media and cultural studies (2 sources)

Informaworld (Routledge/Taylor & Francis) Full text

Scholars Portal Full text

Discourse (4 sources)

Expanded Academic Full text Literature Online Full text

Project Muse Full text

ProQuest Full text

Scholars Portal Full text

Early Popular Visual Culture Full-text

Entertainment Design

Entertainment Weekly (2 sources)

Gale

ProQuest

Feminist Media Studies (2 sources)

Informaworld

Scholars Portal

Film & History: an interdisciplinary journal of film and television studies (2 sources)

Project Muse Full-text

Scholars Portal Full-text

Film Comment Full-text

Film Criticism (2 sources)

Expanded Academics

ProQuest

Film History: an international journal (3 sources)

Expanded Academic ASAP Full-text

Project Muse Full-text

Scholars Portal Full-text

Film Journal International

Film Quarterly (4 sources)

Caliber (U. of California Pr.) Full text

JSTOR Full text

Hollywood Quarterly

Literature Online Full text

ProQuest Full text

Films in review Full text Framework: the journal of cinema and media (2 sources)

Project Muse

Scholars Portal

Historical journal of film, radio and television (4 sources)

Expanded Academic Full text

Informaworld Full text

ProQuest Full text

Scholars Portal Full text

Hollywood Quarterly Full text

Hollywood Reporter (2 sources)

Galeu

ProQuest

Independent Film and Video Monthly

Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (2 sources)

Informaworld Full text

Scholars Portal Full text

Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (2 sources)

Blackwell

JSTOR

Journal of film and video Full text

Journal of Popular Culture (3 sources)

Blackwell Full text

Literature Online Full text

ProQuest Full text

Journal of Popular Film and Television (2 sources)

Expanded Academic Full text

ProQuest Full text

Journal of Visual Culture (3 sources)

Highwire/Sage Full text

Sage Full text

Scholars Portal Full text

Literature/Film Quarterly (3 sources)

Gale Full text

Literature Online Full text

ProQuest Full text

Millennium Film Journal Full text

Monthly Film Bulletin

The Moving Image: the journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (2 sources)

Project Muse

Scholars Portal

New Cinemas: journal of contemporary film Full text

New Review of Film and Television Studies (2 sources)

Informaworld Full text

Scholars Portal Full text

Nineteenth Century Theatre arid Film (2 sources)

Manchester University Press

Literature Online (2 sources)

MIT Press FulFtext

JSTOR Full text

Onfilm (New Zealand - 2 sources)

Gale

Factiva

Onfilm. positions: East Asia cultures critique (3 sources)

Highwire/Duke U. Pr. Full text

Project Muse Full text

Scholars Portal Full text

Post Script Full text

Postmodern Culture (2 sources)

Project Muse Full-text

Scholars Portal Full-text

Quarterly of Film, Radio, and Television Full text

Quarterly Review of Film and Vedio (2 sources))

Informaworld Full text

Scholars Portal Full text

Screen (U.K.) Full text

South Asian Popular Culture (2 sources)

Informaworld Full text

Scholars Portal Full text

Studies in European Cinema Full text

Studies in French Cinema Full text

Studies in Hispanic Cinemas Full text

Take One (2 sources)

Canadian Periodical Index (CPI) Full text

ProQuest Full text

Theatre History Studies (3 sources)

Expanded Academic Index

ProQuest

Literature Online (Chadwyck-Healey)

Third Text Full text

Transition Full text

Variety (2 sources)

Expanded Academic Full text

ProQuest Full text

Variety Review Database Full text

Velvet Light Trap (3 sources)

Expanded Academic Full text

Project Muse Full text

Scholars Portal Full text

Vertigo U.K Full text

Village voice Full text

Visual Anthropology (2 sources)

Informaworld

Scolars Portal

Wide Angle (2 sources)

Project Muse Full text

Scholars Portal Full text

Open source full text e-journals free

Bright Lights Film Journal

Cinema Scope (Toronto Full tex Cinemascope-Independent Film Journal (Italy)

Cine-tracts (or Cinetracts): A Journal of Film, Communication, Culture and Politics Continuum

  • European Cinema Journal
  • Film-Philosophy
  • Filmkultura: digizine of the National FilmArchive of Hungary
  • German Films Quarterly
  • Images: a journal of film and popular culture
  • IndieWIRE
  • Intersections:; Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context
  • Journal of Film Preservation (FIAF)
  • Journal for Multimedia History (SUNY Albany)
  • Journal of Religion and Film
  • Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media
  • KINEMA, a journal for film and audiovisual media (University of Waterloo
  • KinoMagazine (Bulgaria)
  • Kinoeye: New perspectives on European film
  • KinoKultura: new Russian cinema
  • Millennium Film Journal Selected full text
  • Offscreen (Montreal) Full text
  • Participations: journal of audience and reception studies
  • Postmodern Culture
  • P.O.V.: a Danish journal of film studies
  • Scope: an on-line journal of film studies (Institute of Film Studies, U. of) Nottingham)
  • Screening the Past (La Trobe University, Australia)
  • Senses of Cinema (Australia)
  • Synoptique (Concordia University, Montreal)

Vendors/Publishers

  • EJS E-Journals
  • JSTORli>
  • Project Muse

Journal Article Databases

Print Indexes

Film Literature Index. 1973- (quarterly). Also available online - see below. Z 5784 .M9F45 INNR, GENR

Highly recommended for finding citations to articles on film and film history & criticism especially, in both mainstream and lesser known international film journals. Citations can be searched by film title/director, film review author, or subject.

Canadian Film and Video: a bibliography and guide to the literature.

Loren Lerner. 2 vols. 1997.

Online Journal Article Databases

DATABASES.

Art Index Retrospective (1929-1984) is a bibliographic database that cumulates citations to Art Index volumes 1-32 of the printed index published between 1929-1984. The database cites articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch. In addition to articles, Art Index Retrospective indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.

Index to Film & TV Periodicals (FIAF) (1972+) The International Index to Film Periodicals and its companion the International Index to TV Periodicals, contain almost 300,000 article references from more than 300 periodicals. The International Index to Film/TV Periodicals offers in-depth coverage of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals. Each entry contains a full bibliographic description (author, title of the article, article type: i.e. article/review, citation), an abstract (where necessary), and comprehensive headings (biographical names, film titles and general subjects). FIAF, the International Federation of Film Archives, brings together the world's leading institutions in the field of moving picture heritage. They are dedicated to the rescue, collection, preservation and screening of moving images, which are valued both as works of art and culture and as historical documents.

Arts and Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) (1945-present) Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a muitidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.

Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) (1945-present) The Social Sciences Citation Index is a muitidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.

Scholars Portal film-related book and journal article databases.

Art Abstracts (1984+) provides comprehensive abstracting and indexing of 260 international art publications, including English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Dutch, and Swedish.

ART bibliographies Modern (late 1960s+) ABM provides links to journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art,...

BHI: British Humanities Index (1962+) An international abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities, BHI indexes over 320 internationally respected humanities journals and weekly magazines published in the UK and other English speaking countries, as well as quality newspapers published in the UK.

Canadian Periodical Index (1988+) provides citations to articles in several Canadian film and film-related journals. The full text of many articles is available, generally beginning with those published in the early - mid 1990s.

Communication Abstracts (1977+) is a comprehensive source of information about communication-related publications on a world-wide scale. Communication Abstracts covers communication-related articles, reports, papers, and books from a variety of publishers, research institutions, and information sources. Coverage includes not only communication literature but also literature in other disciplines that is relevant to communication researchers. Communication Abstracts also covers the international literature in film studies, the role of technology in human communications, risk communication, crisis communication and public opinions.

Communication Studies (1982+) includes the full-text of 19 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 23 years, encompassing over 5,000 articles. It covers such subjects as Journalism, Public Opinion, Political Communication, Mass Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Cultural Studies / Intercultural Communication, Television / Film Studies, Media Studies, Business Communication, Organizational / Management Communication, Written Communication, Rhetoric, and Literacy Studies.

Essay and General Literature Index (1984+) provides access to nearly 45,000 English-language essays in 3,500 collections and anthologies. It offers an accurate guide to essay collections not found in any other source.

Expanded Academic Index (1980+) provides citations to articles in many film and film-related journals. The full text of many articles is available, generally beginning with those published in the early-mid 1990s.

Humanities Abstracts (1984+) coverage includes scholarly film journals and periodicals and is an important source for recent and up-to-date coverage of the industry, directors, social issues, movie reviews.

IBSS: International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (1951+) is an essential online resource for social science and interdisciplinary research. IBSS includes nearly two million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. It is unique in its broad coverage of international material and incorporates over 100 languages and countries.

MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association) (1926+) is one of the fundamental research tools for the humanities. International in scope, it provides links to articles from thousands of journals and series, monographs, working papers and conference proceedings.

Psyclnfo (1887+) provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines. Unrivaled in its depth of psychological coverage and respected worldwide for its high quality, the database is enriched with literature from an array of disciplines related to psychology.

Readers' Guide Abstracts (1983+) indexes and abstracts articles from more than 240 of the most popular general-interest magazines published in the United States and Canada. It is a comprehensive index to popular literature, and is especially valuable for film reviews.

Social Sciences Abstracts (1984+) provides timely information on concepts, theories, and methodologies in all areas of the social sciences in the areas of anthropology, criminology, economics, law, geography, policy studies, psychology, sociology, social work, and urban studies.

Sociological Abstracts (1963+) (CSA) Sociological Abstracts; abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.

AFI Catalog (American Film Institute)

Film Indexes Online.

America: History and Life/Historical Abstracts America: History and Life (1964+) is a complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Historical Abstracts (1960+) is a complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada.

Canadian Periodical Index (CPI.Q) (1980+)A major database for Canadian topics, covering other topics as they appear in Canadian journals and magazines. CPI.Q provides access to a broad range of journals and magazines, mainly published in Canada. It includes the full text of selected sections of The Globe and Mail from 1997+.

Chicano Database (1967+) covers Mexican-American topics and the broader Latino experience of Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants.

The Complete Index to World Film since 1895 is a comprehensive first-stop reference item. In addition to selected journal article citations, it indexes the following: Over 576,000 titles to search (392,830 Film Titles; 185,421 Alternative Titles); Time span 1890-2006; Films of 175 countries; ; 505,090 People; 94,263 Production/releasing companies; 40,553 Literary Sources; 402,674 References and 850 Series; 32,000 Birth/Death particulars.

Film & Television Literature Index (FTLl)

A comprehensive bibliographic database covering the entire spectrum of television and film writing, Film & Television Literature Index has been designed for use by a diverse audience that includes film scholars, college students, and general viewers. Publications include Film Journal International, Journal of British Cinema & Television, Film Criticism, Post Script, Variety, and more as well as technical publications such as SMPTE. Mirroring the international film & television industries and cultures, FTLl also includes publications such as Cahiers du Cinema, Filmihullu, SegnoCinema, and Kinetoscopio. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.

Film Index international (British Film Institute)

Film Indexes Online brings Film Index International (British Film instituted) and the API Catalog (American Film Institute) together in one site. Film Index International is a filmography that gives fully international coverage of around 120,000 films and 720,000 film personalities from over 170 countries. The AFI Catalog, compiled by specialist researchers at the AFI, is the premier resource for American films providing a detailed view of American feature films produced during the last century.

Film Literature Index (FLI) (1976-2001) Annually indexes 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries cover-to-cover and 200 other periodicals selectively for articles on film and television. The periodicals range from the scholarly to the popular. More than 2,000 subject headings provide detailed analysis of the articles. The FLI Online contains approximately 700,000 citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews published between 1976-2001. You can search the citations or browse by subject headings, browse by person names, browse by production titles, or browse by corporate names.

FRANCIS (Humanities & Social Sciences) Covers a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities and social sciences. FRANCIS is strong in religion, art history, philosophy, psychology, education, linguistics, archeology, information science, sociology and literature....Indexes over 4,200 journals, books, book chapters, conference papers, French dissertations, exhibition catalogs, legislation, teaching materials, and reports. The database contains over 1 million records.

Gender Studies Database (1972+) (Formerly Women's Studies International and Women's Resources International) The Gender Studies Database (GSD) combines NISC's popular Women's Studies International, Men's Studies and Sexual Diversity Studies databases with relevant contributions from the Child Development & Adolescent Studies as well as Family & Society Studies Worldwide databases.

Google Scholar

Humanities International Index (HID Humanities International Index is a comprehensive database covering journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities. It provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for over 2,000 titles and contains more than 2 million records. Formerly the American Humanities Index, this database contains bibliographic records from a multitude of U.S. and international publications. Humanities International Index provides citations and abstracts for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations.

International Bibliography of Periodical Literature (IBZ) is an international, interdisciplinary bibliography with particular emphasis on the social sciences, arts and humanities. IBZ-Online covers more than 2.1 million records with assigned German and English subject headings from over 8,700 periodicals since 1983. IBZ is updated monthly.

International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA) is the only online index covering the performing arts. It enables you to search and browse citations and abstracts in a comprehensive range of journals concentrating on a variety of subjects, including dance, film, drama, television, the arts and entertainment industry, stagecraft, magic, musical theatre and performance art. Abstracts are provided for every citation from 1998 forward to give further detail and offer additional access points to information. The coverage in IIPA is wide, ranging from as early as 1864 right up to the present. .

JSTOR JSTOR allows for browsing as well as searching and viewing, printing or downloading the text of the journals. Examples of journals of interest: Cinema Journal, Film Quarterly, Quarterly of Film Radio and Television, Yale French Studies and others.

LGBT Life with Full Text

Periodicals Index Online (PIO) is an electronic index to millions of articles published in over 4,500 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. PIO is unique in combining a broad subject base with deep chronological coverage going back over 300 years. It covers 37 key subject areas in the humanities and social sciences and offers vast variety within these subject areas. PIO currently indexes over 15 million articles going as far back as 1665 and every article in each journal is indexed, from volume 1 issue 1 to recent times. Over three centuries of scholarly publication in 40 languages and dialects are indexed, including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages. Periodicals Archive Online is a major online periodical archive that makes the back files of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences available electronically, providing access to the full text of a growing number of digitized periodicals that have been indexed in its sister database, Periodicals Index Online. Currently, PAO contains over 350 journals, providing access to over 7.8 million article pages - representing over 1.2 million articles.

Project Muse A muitidisciplinary database which indexes scholarly journals from several university presses and scholarly publishers. Browsing by subject and collection is possible from the main search page. Browsing and full-text search are available. Examples of journals of interest: Film & History, Film History, Framework: Journal of Cinema and Media, French Historical Studies, Yale Journal of Criticism and others.

ProQuest Digital Dissertations 1861-1996 (citations only); 1997+ (full text) provides on-line access to dissertations in digital (PDF) format starting with titles published from 1997 forward plus any earlier dissertations converted to digital format. The full text of other dissertations in paper and microfilm/microfiche format may be ordered either through interlibrary loan or directly from ProQuest.

ProQuest Direct provides citations to articles in many film and film-related journals. The full text of many articles is available, generally beginning with those published in the early - mid 1990s.