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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!
Newspapers with Both Current and Historical Coverage
- Nation Archive (This link opens in a new window)Contains all issues of The Nation, beginning with its first in 1865 to the present. Articles, editorials, letters, reviews, poems, and puzzles are included.
- Newspaper Source Plus (This link opens in a new window)Contains full-text access to major international and national newspapers. Also includes television and radio news transcripts.
- Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) (This link opens in a new window)Funded 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.
- US Newsstream (This link opens in a new window)Enables 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.
Newspapers With Only Historical Coverage
- African American Newspapers Series 1, 1827-1998 (This link opens in a new window)
A full-text collection of newspapers published by or for African Americans.
- Connecticut Historical Newspapers (This link opens in a new window)A collection of eighteenth and nineteenth century newspapers published in Connecticut. Content includes general news, election returns, legislative acts, letters, poetry, shipping news, and advertisements.
- New York Times - Historical (This link opens in a new window)Provides 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.
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Hartford Courant (This link opens in a new window)Access to digitized issues of the Hartford Courant from 1764-1922. Access to 1992-Present is available in U.S. Newsstream.
- Chronicling AmericaAn Internet-based, searchable database of historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages being developed and maintained by the Library of Congress. Digitized material currently covers the historic period 1756-1963.
Magazines with Both Current and Historical Coverage
- Academic Search Premier (This link opens in a new window)
This multidisciplinary database contains peer-reviewed journals, magazines, newspapers, ebooks, and videos.
Magazines With Only Historical Coverage
- Life Magazine Archive (This link opens in a new window)
Collection of cover-to-cover format archives of Life Magazine, from the very first issue in November 1936 through December 2000.
- Sports Illustrated Archive (This link opens in a new window)
A cover-to-cover format archive of Sports Illustrated Magazine, from its very first issue in August 1954 through December 2000.
- Time Magazine Archive (This link opens in a new window)
A cover-to-cover format archive of Time Magazine, dating back to its first issue in March 1923 through December 2000.
Find Books, eBooks, and Movies
- 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.
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Find Background Information
General Background Sources:
- Credo Reference Academic Core (This link opens in a new window)
A comprehensive collection of subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and reference handbooks. Also included are short reference videos and high-resolution images. Useful background information source.
- Oxford Reference Online: Premium (This link opens in a new window)
A 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.
- Britannica Academic (This link opens in a new window)
Provides 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 Background Sources:
- Oxford Bibliographies (This link opens in a new window)
Scholarly annotated bibliographies. 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.
- Pop Culture Universe: Icons, Idols and Ideas (This link opens in a new window)Contains 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.
The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Mass Media and SocietyCall Number: OnlineISBN: 9781483375533Publication Date: 2019
Find Streaming Videos
- Academic Video Online (This link opens in a new window)
Provides video material from a wide range of disciplines.
- Drama Online: The National Theatre Collection (This link opens in a new window)
This database provides videos of filmed performances. Scroll down and click the orange button labeled "Explore the Collection" to view accessible content.
- Drama Online: The Royal Shakespeare Company Live Collection (This link opens in a new window)This database provides videos of filmed performances. Scroll down and click the orange button labeled "Explore the Collection" to view accessible content.
- Films on Demand (This link opens in a new window)
Contains 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.
- Kanopy (This link opens in a new window)
A streaming video platform that provides access to documentaries, classics, and indie films. For information on public performance rights, visit Kanopy Support.
Use Additional Online Resources
Streaming Video
- 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.
- 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.
Industry Statistics and Revenue
- Box Office MojoTracks box office revenue. Owned and operated by IMDb.
- The NumbersSearch by film, genre, or dates. Contains market summaries, list of top grossing films, budgets, revenues, release schedules.
- Statista (This link opens in a new window)Contains 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, and Film, click here.
Scripts
- The Daily ScriptCollection of movie and television scripts and screenplays to serve as a resource for educational purposes.
- 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.
- Simply ScriptsLinks to hundreds of downloadable movie scripts, screenplays, and transcripts of current, classic movies, television, anime, and radio shows.
Other
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- Glossary of Film TermsDefinitions of more than 700 terms, indexed by alphabet and subject, and links to other Web film glossaries.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Cite Your Sources
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Find Other Resources in the Academic Commons
The Library isn't the only resource available to you! The following departments are housed in the Library, but provide different services than the Librarians do:
- The Office of Accessibility
- The Fredrickson Family Innovation Lab
- Global Fairfield
- The ITS Help Desk
- The Math Center
- The Science Center
- The Writing Center
Film, Television, and Media Arts Course Guides
Below is a list of this semester's Course Guides for this subject:
