Media Arts & Culture

Full-text of hundreds of journals in the humanities, arts, and social sciences from scholarly publishers, mostly university presses. Oxy subscribes to the Standard Collection.

Full-text archive of high-impact academic journals in many disciplines. The archive does NOT include recent issues -- included journals generally begin with the first issue and stop 3 to 5 years ago. You can browse journals by discipline or by title, and you can search articles by keyword. Oxy subscribes to eight JSTOR collections: Arts & Sciences I through VII and the Ecology and Botany collection.

Oxy's set of ProQuest databases includes: ProQuest Research Library, ProQuest Religious Periodicals, ProQuest Health and Medical Resources, and many more. Together they form a convenient general article database offering ample links to complete online articles.

Art Databases includes Art Full Text and Art Retrospective, covering an array of publications about artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews and theory and criticism. From EBSCO.

The Film Scripts Online Series makes available, for the first time, accurate and authorized versions of copyrighted screenplays. Now film scholars can compare the writer’s vision with the producer’s and director’s interpretations from page to screen. The series contains 1,500 film scripts—an exploration of culture and cinema through the decades. This highly structured archive offers a bibliographic and biographical database of directors and writers, along with the full text of the movies themselves. From the earliest silent films through to the present, the cultural attitudes and lifestyles are reflected in the medium. Students, instructors, and researchers use the series for studying popular culture, film, diversity and gender issues, language and linguistics, writing, American history, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and other disciplines.

This vast digital archive offers unparalleled insights into the behind-the-scenes activities of the music, film and entertainment industries. By providing the complete runs of major trade and consumer magazines, from their inception to 2000, it arms students and researchers with primary source material to develop a contextual understanding of the entertainment industry as it evolved over the 20th century. SECTION 1: Music, Radio and The Stage • Billboard (1894-2000) • Musician (1976-1999) • Muzik (1995-2003) • Spin (1985-2000) • Back Stage (1960-2000) • The Beat (1988-2000) • Disc/Disc and Music Echo (1958-1975) • Mixmag (1983-2000) • Radio and Records (R&R) (1973-2000) • Rave (1964-1970) • Reggae and African Beat (1982-1988) • The Stage (1880-2000) • Uncut (1997-2000) • Vox (1990-1999) -- SECTION 2: Cinema, Film and Television • American Film (1975-1992) • Broadcasting & Cable (1931-2000) • Contrast (1961-1966) • Film Journal International/Independent Film Journal/Film Journal (1937-2000) • Screen International (1976-2000) • Variety (1905-2000) • Boxoffice (1920-2000) • Broadcast (1960-2000) • Film Weekly (1928-1939) • Picturegoer (1911-1960)

An on-demand streaming video service which provides access to educational titles, including award-winning documentaries, training films and theatrical releases.

Academic Video Online is the most comprehensive video subscription available to libraries. It delivers more than 68,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.

This Web of Science database fully indexes 1,160 scholarly arts and humanities journals and also indexes individually selected articles from over 6,800 major science and social science journals. Allows you to search and analyze article citations. Coverage includes 1975 to present.

Index to scholarly materials published worldwide in literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. From EBSCO.

This collection provides access to 416 journals from Sage Publications.