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- Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window Academic Video Online features a single, fully integrated platform, offering access to tens of thousands of full-length streaming video titles. Virtually every video in the collection is fully transcribed in addition to being indexed for subjects, people, places, release date, language, publisher, and video type.
- New World Cinema - Independent Features & Shorts This link opens in a new window Streaming collection containing videos from 1990 - present. Contains over 200 full-length feature films and 50 short films previously presented at various film festivals worldwide.
- Filmakers Library Online This link opens in a new window Streaming video collection containing documentaries with relevance across the curriculum—race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more.
- Films on Demand This link opens in a new window Streaming videos that covers a a wide range of topics including social sciences, arts and humanities, science, technology, archival film and newsreels and more.
- Film Platform Collection This link opens in a new window A collaboration between leading filmmakers and film distributors from around the world bringing the documentary films to an academic audience
- Silent Film Online This link opens in a new window Premium silent film content from every era and from across the globe
- Sony Pictures Classics This link opens in a new window Documentary, art, and independent films from Sony Pictures.
Find Reviews
- Gale General OneFile This link opens in a new window Access general interest magazines and key serials in a single resource. Best for general research.
- Movie Review Query Engine Internet’s largest database of movie reviews for over 100,000 titles. The continually growing site provides a searchable index of all published and available reviews, news, interviews, and other materials associated with specific movies.
- New York Times (create an academic pass) This link opens in a new window Using a valid CLC email account, create an account for full access to the NYT from 1851-present.
- Rotten Tomatoes Ratings and reviews. Rates films based on both critic and audience ratings.
Find Film Statistics
- Internet Movie Database (IMBd) One of the most robust film sites on the Web, claiming information on films, actors, directors, cinematographers, and other film-related personae. Also includes unofficial box office statistics.
Explore a Topic
- Credo Reference This link opens in a new window Features content from hundreds of reference books in a broad range of subjects.
- Ebook Central (formerly Ebrary/EBL) This link opens in a new window 30,000+ ebooks collection that spans all academic subject areas. Users can search for e-books by title, author, subject, ISBN, LC call number, etc. or browse by publisher or subject. By creating an eBrary bookshelf account (free), readers can manage a virtual bookshelf where they can store, highlight, search, take notes, create folders and even share ebooks.
- Gale Ebooks This link opens in a new window Encyclopedias and specialized e-book reference sources for business, communications, criminal justice, education, environmental sciences, finance, history, homeland security, literature, political science, psychology, sciences, and sociology. Includes full-text articles in multiple literature encyclopedia series including Drama for Students, Novels for Students, Poetry for Students, and Short Stories for Students
- New York Times (create an academic pass) This link opens in a new window Using a valid CLC email account, create an account for full access to the NYT from 1851-present.
Find Articles & Criticism
- Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window Multi-disciplinary database with 10,000+ full-text journal. Includes a combination of academic journals (scholarly/peer reviewed), magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos. Disciplines range from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, law and literacy to mathematics, women's studies, zoology and more. #ebsco
- Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window Communication and mass media topics, including business communication, in journals, major journalism reviews, and recent encyclopedia and handbooks from 1915 to the present #ebsco
- Gale Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window Includes full-text and abstracts of scholarly, trade, and general-interest periodicals covering topics in the areas of current events, general sciences and technology, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
- Gale Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window Search for literary topics and works, authors and criticism.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window Includes full-text journal coverage in humanities, social sciences and the sciences.
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