Scholarly Databases
- Communication & Mass Media Complete (CMMC) This link opens in a new window CMMC indexes journals covering communication, mass media, linguistics, discourse, rhetoric, sociolinguistics, communication theory, language, logic, organizational communication and other closely related fields of study. Date coverage: 1915 - present.
- FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database This link opens in a new window Indexes, abstracts, and provides full text of articles from academic and popular film journals. Also includes several film reference books. Abstracts late 19th century - present; full text 1930s - present.
- MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window Indexes critical materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. Includes citations from worldwide publications: periodicals, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations and bibliographies. Date coverage: 1920s - present.
- Screen Studies Collection This link opens in a new window Screen Studies Collection brings the Film Periodicals Database, Film Index International, and the AFI Catalog together in one site.
News Databases
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window Full-page images and article images (PDF) with searchable full text from the following newspapers: Boston Globe; New York Times; Washington Post; Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and Chicago Defender. See listing for each individual newspaper for date coverage and to search that publication separately.
- Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Media Studies Blogs and a Newsletter
- CynopsisCynopsis sends out three free eNewsletters daily on TV and related media industries. Newsletters include news on production and executives, ratings, and jobs.
- Flow"Flow is an online journal of television and media studies" and a project of the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin.
- In Media Res"dedicated to experimenting with collaborative, multi-modal forms of online scholarship...Each weekday, a different scholar curates a 30-second to 3-minute video clip/visual image slideshow accompanied by a 300-350-word impressionistic response."
- News for TV Majors"This site is intended to keep TV Studies students (and anyone else who's interested in TV) informed about the latest news, reviews, and views about television." From Christine Becker, Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame.
