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Major Online Sources

These online sources are good places to start searching for articles and reference information on film and television. For quick reference, hold your mouse over a link for a brief description of the resource. All of these are subscription resources from the Library, so you will need to make sure your computer is configured for off-campus access if you are researching from home.

For more suggested sources, go to the tabs on the side of this page.

ProQuest
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Search platform for over 120 databases, from the AFI Catalog to Worldwide Political Science Abstracts‎. Includes scholarly articles, primarily in the humanities and social sciences, as well as newspapers and dissertations.
Academic Search Complete
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Indexes major journals and magazines across many disciplines.
FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals
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Searches film and television articles in the International Index to Film Periodicals (1972-current) and Treasures from the Film Archives, which contains silent film-era listings from archives.
Film Index International
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Provides in-depth indexing of international films from the silent period to the present, with selected biographical information, searchable plot summaries, and full cast and crew lists. Based on the Summary of Film and Television database maintained by the British Film Institute.
Gale eBooks (formerly Gale Virtual Reference Library)
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Full text online reference books, including the Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film, History of the American Cinema, and the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
JSTOR
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Full text back issues of major academic journals from a range of disciplines.
Oxford Bibliographies Online: Cinema and Media Studies
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Annotated bibliographies for topics in the field of Cinema and Media Studies. Combines encyclopedia-style introductions with expert recommendations of the most important reference works, books, journals, and primary sources on the topic.
Performing Arts Periodicals Database
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Articles and reviews from a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry - including dance, drama, theater, stagecraft, circus, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic, performance art, film, television, and more. Former database title: International Index to Performing Arts (IIPA) Full Text.
Project MUSE
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Full text of current issues of scholarly journals published by university presses, chiefly in the arts, humanities and social sciences.

Connecting from Off-Campus: VPN & Proxy Tutorials

The Library's online subscription resources can always be accessed from computers and wireless networks on campus. However, off-campus access is restricted to current UCLA, students, faculty, and staff who have set up their computer using one of the methods below. Click on the other tabs to see how four Bruins got their computers set up and ready to go for remote access!

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Virtual Private Networking (VPN)
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UCLA OnLine Proxy Server
A simple browser setting which will automatically divert you to a UCLA logon page when you first access a restricted site.

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