Research Guides: Critical Media Practices: Databases

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Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science) Citation information for scholarly journals.
Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) Multidisciplinary index to thousands of popular and scholarly journals, including engineering trade journals, from 1975 to current.
Humanities Full Text (EBSCO) Full-text articles and indexing of academic journals covering a broad range of subjects in the humanities and social sciences. Includes the following collections: Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 (H.W. Wilson), Humanities Full Text (H.W. Wilson)

International Bibliography of Art (IBA) (ProQuest)
Began indexing in 2007 after the cessation of Bibliography of the History of Art, and has the same editorial policies.
ARTbibliographies Modern (ProQuest)
Excellent source for art and photography made after 1850, especially for finding articles on contemporary art and artists.
DAAI: Design and Applied Arts Index (ProQuest)
Articles on the applied arts and design.

Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO)
Comprehensive research resource for communication and related disciplines.
ComAbstracts
Index of the primary professional literature of the communications field with links to full text.

MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO)
Essential international index to works about language and literature, produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA). Includes the following collection: MLA Directory of Periodicals.
International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance (EBSCO)
Resources on all aspects of theatre and the performing arts.
Performing Arts Periodicals Database (ProQuest)
From 1864 to current.
Film & Television Literature Index (EBSCO)
Bibliographic database that provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 380 publications.
Screen Studies Collection (ProQuest)
Current publications related to film scholarship alongside detailed and expansive filmographies. Includes the following collections: AFI Catalog, FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database, Film Index International

Berg Fashion Library (Bloomsbury Fashion Central)
Database of integrated text and image content on world dress and fashion throughout history. Access note: The library provides access to content in the Berg Fashion Library module of Bloomsbury Fashion Central.
Bloomsbury Design Library
Bloomsbury Design Library provides international and scholarly coverage of design and crafts, from 1500 BCE to the present day.
DAAI: Design and Applied Arts Index (ProQuest)
Articles on the applied arts and design.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (ProQuest)
Comprehensive database of architecture articles.

Oxford Music Online
Includes Grove Music Online, Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Oxford Companion to Music and Oxford Dictionary of Music.
Bloomsbury Music and Sound
Collection of reference content, scholarship, and a variety of learning resources across a range of subject areas in music and sound studies.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text (EBSCO)
Starting point for research in music.
Music & Performing Arts Collection (ProQuest)
Cross-searchable bibliographies in music and performing arts, with full-text from hundreds of journals. Includes the following collections: Music Periodicals Database, Performing Arts Periodicals Database

Sociological Abstracts (ProQuest)
Abstracts and citations to international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
PsycINFO (ProQuest)
Useful for human computer interaction. Covers psychology and psychological aspects of medicine, psychiatry, anthropology, business, law, and similar disciplines.
Anthropology Plus (EBSCO)
Indexes journal articles, essays, reports, commentaries, and edited works in the fields of cultural, biological, and linguistic anthropology as well as ethnology, archaeology, folklore, and material culture from the late 19th century to the present.
Women's Studies International (EBSCO)
Includes latest scholarship in feminist research.
Bloomsbury Food Library
Interdisciplinary collection of food studies content covering a wide range of subjects such as history, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, human geography, sustainability, agriculture, culinary arts, literary studies, political science, and development studies.

ILLiad
You can request book chapter and journal article scans be emailed to you through ILLiad.

JSTOR
JSTOR is an online archive of scholarly materials and it searches articles through the full text, unlike many other databases. However JSTOR includes fewer journals on any specific subject than the subject databases does, and is lacking the most recent 5 years of articles.