LibGuides: Film and Media: Find an article in a database

Finding an article in a database

A more complete list of databases useful in the area of film research here. Below are some excellent databases to start your research.

To search for specific film journals, search the title in the library catalogue for paper subscriptions or in Journals for online journals on Film

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
- A great place to start your search for both popular and scholarly articles on almost any topic. Provides peer-reviewed journals, full-text periodicals, reports, books, and much more.
Art & Architecture Source This link opens in a new window
- Art & Architecture Source features full-text articles—as well as detailed indexing and abstracts—for an international array of journals, books, podcasts, images and more. Content includes over 640 full-text journals and more than 225 full-text books. Includes: Art Index / Abstracts / Full Text / Retrospective (formerly Wilson Databases) plus Art & Architecture Complete (EBSCO Database).
Art, Design & Architecture Collection This link opens in a new window
- The Art, Design & Architecture collection includes the specialist indexes ARTbibliographies Modern (covering modern and contemporary art), Design and Applied Arts Index (for all aspects of design and crafts) and the International Bibliography of Art (covering scholarship on Western art history), together with a complementary collection of current full-text journals, Arts and Humanities Full Text.
Canadian Periodicals Index Quarterly This link opens in a new window
- CPI.Q provides access to Canadian and American periodical literature including full text for selected sections of Canada's national newspaper, The Globe and Mail; Maclean's weekly magazine; Canadian News Facts; and encyclopedic reference materials, such as the Canadian Parliamentary Guide and Canadian Newsmakers. Canadian coverage includes a wide variety of English and French language journals having significant Canadian or regional content. It also includes more that 30 major American titles dealing with North American and international issues. Indexing of nearly 1,200 Canadian periodicals (English and French) with full-text articles from 550 Canadian periodicals. Full-text articles from 1983 to present
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
- Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
- A searchable, online, full-text archival collection of core scholarly journals and ebooks mainly in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Emily Carr Library subscribes to the following JSTOR Collections: * Arts & Sciences III * Arts & Sciences V
Project MUSE Standard Collection Journals + eBooks This link opens in a new window
- Academic and peer-reviewed journals and ebooks in the humanities and social sciences from scholarly and university publishers.
- The Standard Collection is a subset of about 300 journals of the Premium Collection of over 450 journals.
- Open Access content on this platform included. Discover more about the Muse Open Access collection link here