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MLA international bibliography
Provider: ProQuest
Provides citations to journal articles, books, working papers, conference proceedings, bibliographies, and other materials. Areas covered include literature, language, linguistics, film, theatre and folklore. Covers 1926-present.
World Shakespeare bibliography online.
Provides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, production reviews, audiovisual materials, electronic media and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare. Covers works published or produced between 1963 to the present.
ProQuest Research Library
Provider: ProQuest
Provides citations and full-text magazine and journal articles in a wide variety of disciplines, both scholarly and popular in scope. Covers 1971-present.
Project Muse
Provides access to journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Disciplines covered are humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
JSTOR
Provides full-text and page images from many of the top journals in most academic disciplines. Coverage is from the inception of the journal through three to five years ago.
Arts & humanities citation index
Provider: FirstSearch
Citations to more than 1,300 arts and humanities journals and to relevant articles on arts and humanities in over 5,800 social science and science journals. Records include articles, bibliographies, editorials and reviews. Covers 1980-present.
Periodicals index online (Chadwyck)
Index to journal articles in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, including some published as far back as 1770. Includes periodicals in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, and other Western languages.
Early English books online.
Contains digital images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. Includes books, pamphlets, manuscripts and newspapers.
Film & Theater Indexes:
International index to the performing arts
Publisher: [Alexandria, Va.] : Chadwyck-Healey, Inc.,
Provides abstracts and full-text to journal articles. Covers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry including dance, film, television, theater, opera, and broadcasting. Covers 1864-present.
Film indexes online
Provider: ProQuest
An authoritative alternative to the IMDB. This resource brings Film Index International and AFI Catalog together in one site. Searched together, these resources produced by the British Film Institute (BFI) and the American Film Institute (AFI) bring an unparalleled level of detail to research. Coverage varies.
- NOTE: When requesting reviews through Interlibrary Loan, note that citations in this database will be listed in the following style: MPW 26 Mar 10, p377 (This citation means that a review appears in Moving Picture World, MARCH 26, 1910, p377.)
Other Online Resources:
Citation And Style Guides
Guides to MLA style and creating annotated bibliographies.
Shakespeare on Film and Video: Books in the UC Berkeley Library
Gary Handman's annotated bibliography of critical books, articles and reviews of individual plays in the UC Berkeley Library. Check for local holdings in Tripod.
Shakespeare in Performance
Searchable database of performance materials from over 1000 film and stage productions. From Internet Shakespeare Editions, University of Victoria.
Film literature index
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(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1976-2001.
(Haverford College) Available from 1976-2001.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1976-2001.
Publisher: Ipswich, Mass. [etc.], EBSCO Pub. [etc.]
The most important index for Film Studies. Offers citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews from film and television journals from 30 countries. The journals range from scholarly to popular titles. Covers the years between 1976-2001. (The print version of this index covers 1973-2004.)