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Find Articles/Reviews
Use these selected databases to find articles on your topic:
Finding Newspaper Articles/Reviews
The Library provides current, free-to-you access to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Chronicle of Higher Education. Click here for info on how to create accounts with all three!
Current and Historical
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Nation Archive This link opens in a new windowContains all issues of The Nation, beginning with its first in 1865 to the present. Articles, editorials, letters, reviews, poems, and puzzles are included.
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Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new windowContains full-text access to major international and national newspapers. Also includes television and radio news transcripts.
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Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) This link opens in a new windowFunded in part by the generosity of the Flora and Jeremiah Buckley Library Fund. Contains local, regional, national, and international news with deep archives. Provides extensive legal sources for federal and state cases and statutes as well as law reviews. Also includes business information on U.S. and international companies.
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US Newsstream This link opens in a new windowEnables users to search current U.S. news content, as well as archives that stretch back into the 1980s. It features top newspapers, wires, broadcast transcripts, blogs, and news sites in full-text format.
Historical Only
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African American Newspapers Series 1, 1827-1998 This link opens in a new windowA full-text collection of newspapers published by or for African Americans.
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Connecticut Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new windowA collection of eighteenth and nineteenth century newspapers published in Connecticut. Content includes general news, election returns, legislative acts, letters, poetry, shipping news, and advertisements.
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New York Times - Historical This link opens in a new windowProvides every issue in PDF format from 1851 (with a three year embargo). Includes news articles, editorials, obituaries, birth and marriage announcements, photos, advertisements, and more.
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ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Hartford Courant This link opens in a new windowAccess to digitized issues of the Hartford Courant from 1764-1922. Access to 1992-Present is available in U.S. Newsstream.
Books, Ebooks, Music, & Movies
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Click here to search for books and media!This link will lead to an advanced search, so you can use as many or as few key terms as you want. For help with advanced searching, see our tutorial.
Background Sources
Multidisciplinary encyclopedias:
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Credo Reference Academic Core This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive collection of subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and reference handbooks. Also included are short reference videos and high-resolution images. Useful background information source.
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Oxford Reference Online: Premium This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive collection of scholarly encyclopedias and dictionaries published by Oxford University Press. A useful background information source for starting your research. Simultaneous user limit: 5.
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Britannica Academic This link opens in a new windowProvides access to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, an interactive world atlas, a world data analyst tool, images, timelines, videos, and primary sources.
Discipline specific sources:
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Pop Culture Universe: Icons, Idols and Ideas This link opens in a new windowContains information on popular culture in America, both past and present. Includes cultural overview essays broken down by decade and provides images, maps, and videos. Includes primary sources.
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Oxford Bibliographies This link opens in a new windowWritten and reviewed by scholars, these authoritative and scholarly annotated bibliographies serve as a great starting point for your research. Each article begins with an overview essay and recommends the most important scholarship on a topic. Includes recommendations to primary sources. Subscribed subjects include: Cinema and Media Studies, Classics, Communication, Education, International Law, International Relations, Latin American Studies, and Political Science.
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The Wiley-Blackwell History of American FilmCall Number: Online and Stacks Upper Level PN1993.5.U6 W4954 2012 v.1-4Publication Date: 2011 -
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The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Mass Media and SocietyCall Number: OnlineISBN: 9781483375533Publication Date: 2019
Streaming Video
Library Databases
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Academic Video Online This link opens in a new windowProvides video material from a wide range of disciplines.
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Films on Demand This link opens in a new windowContains streaming videos in a variety of academic disciplines. Includes the Archival Films & Newsreels Collections. Public performance rights for students, faculty and staff is included if no admission is charged.
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Kanopy This link opens in a new windowA streaming video platform that provides access to documentaries, classics, and indie films. For information on public performance rights, visit Kanopy Support.
Open Source (aka Free) Streaming Video
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Open CultureWatch 1,150 movies free online. Includes classics, indies, film noir, documentaries and other films, created by some of our greatest actors, actresses and directors. The collection is divided into the following categories: Comedy & Drama; Film Noir, Horror & Hitchcock; Westerns (many with John Wayne); Martial Arts Movies; Silent Films; Documentaries, and Animation. We also have special collections of Oscar Winning Movies and Films by Andrei Tarkovsky and Charlie Chaplin.
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Internet Archive: Moving Image ArchiveContains digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts. Many of these videos are available for free download.
Industry Statistics & Revenue
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Statista This link opens in a new windowContains statistical data on a variety of topics including business, finance, politics, lifestyles, current trends, and technology. Data is pooled from a variety of sources, including government and industry databases, trade publications, and scientific journals. Also includes infographics, industry reports, studies, and topic pages. Expert tools are now part of our subscription, not including Global Survey.
For statistics, market data and industry information on Radio, TV & Film, click here.
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Box Office MojoTracks box office revenue. Owned and operated by IMDb.
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The NumbersSearch by film, genre, or dates. Contains market summaries, list of top grossing films, budgets, revenues, release schedules.
Find Scripts
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Internet Movie Script Database"The biggest collection of movie scripts available anywhere on the web." All scripts on this site are educational purposes only and can be read or downloaded in HTML format for free.
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The Daily ScriptCollection of movie and television scripts and screenplays to serve as a resource for educational purposes.
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Simply ScriptsLinks to hundreds of downloadable movie scripts, screenplays, and transcripts of current, classic movies, television, anime, and radio shows.
Additional Online Resources
These websites have been evaluated by librarians (that's a good thing) for your use in an academic setting. However, any website can be changed without notice, so be sure to evaluate every site you use.
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Oscar) Resources and DatabasesA comprehensive record of Academy Award winners and nominees, Transcripts of speeches by Academy Award winners, The most reliable credits data anywhere, An inventory of motion picture script holdings, Search the library's film-related holdings, as well as screenwriting and teacher's guide resources.
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American Film Institute CatalogProvides more accurate cast/crew/release information than IMDB, as well as citations for newspaper and trade magazine reviews from the time of release
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British Film Institute National ArchiveConcentrating on British titles, the BFI carefully selected material for their collections, preserving, restoring and interpreting it to ensure film heritage is widely accessible in cinemas and in the home. Also includes posters, images, publicity material, original scripts, letters and other artifacts.
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European Film GatewayThe EFG Portal gives you quick access to hundreds of thousands of film historical documents as preserved in European film archives and cinémathèques: photos, posters, programmes, periodicals, censorship documents, rare feature and documentary films, newsreels and other materials. Targeted at scientific researchers and the interested public alike, the EFG offers a look at and behind the scenes of filmmaking in Europe from the early days until today.
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Glossary of Film TermsDefinitions of more than 700 terms, indexed by alphabet and subject, and links to other Web film glossaries.
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Internet Movie Database (IMDB)The premier source for information on films and the people who make them. Profiles of personnel, cast lists, filmographies, awards nominees and winners, synopses, trailers, reviews, and more can all be found at this huge, growing, and constantly updated site.
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Media History Digital LibraryThe Media History Digital Library is a non-profit initiative, dedicated to digitizing historic books and magazines about film, broadcasting, and recorded sound for broad public access.
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Museum of the Moving Image Research GuideThe Moving Image Source Research Guide is a gateway to the best online resources related to film, television, and digital media.
Citations & Support
Cite Your Sources
Questions about Citations? Save time, ask a Librarian!
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AMA Manual of Style, 11th ed.Call Number: Online and Reference Main Level R119 .A533 2020ISBN: 9780190246556Click the title above to view the manual. For help with this style, check out our AMA Citation Guide. -
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA), 7th ed.Call Number: Reference Main Level BF76.7 .P83 2020ISBN: 9781433832161Click the title above to view the manual. For help with this style, check out our APA Citation Guide. -
MLA Handbook, 9th ed.Call Number: Reference Main Level LB2369 .G53 2021ISBN: 9781603293518Click the title above to view the handbook. For help with this style, check out our MLA Citation Guide. -
The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th ed.Call Number: Online and Reference Main Level Z253 .U69 2017ISBN: 9780226287058Click the title above to view the manual. Our Citation Guides can help with Chicago Notes-Bibliography style or Chicago Author-Date style. -
IEEE Editorial Style Manual for Authors by Call Number: OnlineClick the title above to view the manual. For help with this style, check out our IEEE Citation Guide.
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