MAR 460 - Shakespeare on Screen
SELECT ONLINE LIBRARY RESOURCES
UA Library Catalog — The place to find out what we own (books, journals, videos, etc.) To find out if we have a particular article, look up the title of the journal the article is in, not the article title.
Academic Search Premier — Multidisciplinary database that includes many full-text articles.
Academic Onefile — Academic OneFile includes a high percentage of peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources.
Film Feature Forum — The on-line bibliography by the Audio-Visual Euro-Net. This online index offers English abstracts of essays and articles recently published in eleven film journals all over Europe.
Film Index International — Detailed information about motion pictures (production information) & cinema workers. Includes references to articles.
Film Literature Index Online (1976-2001) — The FLI Online contains approximately 700,000 citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews published between 1976-2001. The print version, at Z5784.M9 F5 Info Commons Ref covers 1973-present.
Humanities International Complete — Wide bibliographic coverage of humanities literature.
International Index to Film Periodicals [FIAF] — FIAF Index to Film Periodicals is a bibliographical index offering coverage of domestic and international academic and popular film journals from 1972 to the present.
International Index to the Performing Arts — Covers the disciplines of dance, film, drama/theater, broadcast arts, the performance business and more. Indexes dozens of film and media arts related journals.
MLA —Database of articles on literature, literary criticism, and linguistics. 1963-present.
Shakespeare Bibliography — A searchable electronic database consisting of the most comprehensive record of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide between 1963 and 2006. Containing over 107,000 annotated entries, this collected information is an essential tool for anyone engaged in research on Shakespeare or early modern England.
U of A Library Film/Media Arts Subject Guide
WorldCat — A union catalog of records for all types of material (including films, videos and DVDs) cataloged by hundreds of academic and public libraries throughout the world. Updated daily. If you need more information on how to use this resource, go here: Using Union Lists
SELECT PRINT RESOURCES
The New Film Index: A Bibliography of Magazine Articles in English, 1930-1970. Z5784.M9 M29 1975 Main — A good source for historical research on film. Most databases do not cover these early years.
Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature — AI3 .R48 Information Commons Ref. — Includes references to actors, actresses, directors, and other people in the film and television industries. The library has the printed edition of the index from the late nineteenth century to date.
Retrospective Index to Film Periodicals, 1930-1971. — Z5784.M9 B39 Main — Historical index of film scholarship predates the Film Literature Index, above. Indexes 14 English-language film periodicals, as well as articles from the Village Voice.
The critical index: a bibliography of articles on film in English, 1946-1973. — Z5784.M9 G47 Main. — A good source for critical material from the early post-war years through the early 1970s.
IMPORTANT LIBRARY SERVICES
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TOOLS FOR WRITING YOUR PAPER
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- Avoiding Plagiarism — A guide to help you to avoid plagiarizing others' work.
- Refworks — Helps you keep track of your citations and enter them in proper MLA or other style format. Especially helpful for graduate students or students working on in-depth research