LexisNexis Academic:Use the Guided Search feature. General News from major papers will return international coverage. The US News category allows you to search for papers within a particular region or state.
Film Literature Index Online: Online index for about 350 film journals from 30 countries. The primary specialized index for film, FLI also includes reviews. The online version covers 1976 - 2001. For other years, come to the Reference Department: Ref PN1998 .F545x.
use other newspaper databases, like Ethnic Newswatch, Newsbank, Newspaper Source, ProQuest Newspapers, etc.
--for older films--
American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Catalogs films produced by the American film community from 1893-1970. Describes productions, provides summaries, and lists reviews. Ref PN 1998 A57
New York Times Film Reviews: Copies of film reviews that appeared in the New York Times, from 1913-2000. Ref PN 1995 N4
Film Review Annual: Reprints reviews in their entirety from newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals and gives citations to others. Covers 1981 - present.
Film Review Index: Provides citations to criticism from English-language periodicals, newspapers, and selected film books for films released during 1882 - 1985
Magill's Cinema Annual: reviews of 100 selected films 1982 - current.
Magill's Survey of Cinema: films produced between 1927 and 1981. bonus! 700 foreign language films included
finding journal articles:
--first stops--
Academic Search Premier: multidisciplinary database covering about 8,000 journals (4,500 of them fulltext) going back to 1975
ProQuest Research Library: multidisciplinary database covering wide range of subject areas, about 4,000 journals
--primary databases--
Literature Online: Combines indexing from the Modern Language Association International Bibliography (MLAIB) and the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL) with fulltext articles from 175 targeted journals. The BEST indexing database for film, literature, folklore....
Film Literature Index Online: Online index for about 350 film journals from 30 countries. The primary specialized index for film. The online version covers 1976 - 2001. For other years, come to the Reference Department: RefPN1998 .F545x.
--also check--
JSTOR: High-quality Journal STORage project, with scholarly journals from a wide range of subject areas. For most journals included, the time period is from the first issue to within five years (JSTOR's "moving wall").
Many of our databases include the full text of articles. In some cases, though, the full text of an article may not be available online in the database you are using due to publishers' restrictions or the prohibitive cost of providing them online. Increasingly, when you search for articles in the library's databases you will see the button on your results list or on the screen showing the citation/abstract of the article.
Serial Solutions is a service offered by Joyner and Laupus Libraries that allows you, at the click of a button, to go from an article citation in one database to a full text copy of that article in another, or to see if a particular article or specific journal is available in full text electronic format. It also allows you to find out if that journal is available in print at either Joyner or Laupus.
What if the article I want is not available full-text online?
If the article is not available online, you can check the Joyner Library catalog or the Laupus Health Sciences catalog to see if it is held in printed form. The button does this for you automatically from within databases. If you live within Pitt County you would need to come to the library to make a copy of the article. If you are a distance-learning studentliving outside of Pitt County, you can have articles copied and sent to you, using Interlibrary Lending.
Citation Linker: If you already have a citation from someone else’s bibliography and want to find out if we have that article, key it into the Citation Linker. When you click the Find IT! Button at the bottom of the page, you will generate an menu of options that works like the one described above.
to get help:
Come to the Reference Desk or call us at (252) 328-6677
