Media, Film & Communication: Databases

Designed for academic institutions, this database provides coverage of multidisciplinary academic journals. It supports research in the key areas of academic study by providing peer-reviewed journals, full-text periodicals, reports, books, and more.

Provides full-text access to back issues (delay in coverage generally 3-5 years) of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other fields of the humanities, social sciences, and life sciences. The Library's access includes all Arts & Sciences Collections, the Life Sciences Collection, Business IV, and the Ireland Collection.

This citation database covers literature, language and linguistics, folklore, film, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included. The database also includes access to the MLA Directory of Periodicals.

Provides digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. A source of complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals with over 120 publishers currently participating.

A leading electronic database providing indexing/abstracting and full-text access to scholarly and general interest publications. It combines information from a number of online databases with subjects covering: business, law, education, computing, science, technology, engineering, arts, medicine, and religion.

Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.

A multi disciplinary database. used in the Sciences and Humanities. Use it to search across a large range of academic e-journals, e-books and conference proceedings.

Humanities International Complete includes rigorous curation and indexing of open access (OA) journals, which has resulted in a growing collection of 580 active global OA journals.

Discover the best of Oxford University Press's reference titles on a dynamic digital platform.

Search across millions of newspapers, journals, books, pictures, maps, and many other items from cultural, community, and research collections around Australia. From a basic search through to an advanced or customised search, and searching for First Australian content.

Figure.NZ’s mission is to get the people of New Zealand using data to thrive. We believe data isn’t just for experts, and that everyone can use numbers. Figure.NZ exists to enable everyone to make sense of data and see Aotearoa clearly. Our dream is that when every New Zealander wants to use data, can get their hands on it, and knows how to use it effectively.

The Commonwealth is one of the world’s oldest political association of states there are currently 54 independent countries. This includes some of the world’s largest, smallest, richest and poorest countries. The Commonwealth is involved in helping countries with trade negotiations, encouraging women’s leadership, building small business and supporting youth participation at all levels of society.

Un Data is a web-based data service for the global user community. It brings international statistical databases within easy reach of users through a single-entry point. Users can search and download a variety of statistical resources compiled by the United Nations (UN) statistical system and other international agencies.

Dataset Search is a search engine for datasets.
Using a simple keyword search, users can discover datasets hosted in thousands of repositories across the Web. As more dataset repositories use schema.org and similar standards to describe their datasets, the variety and coverage of datasets that users find in Dataset Search will continue to grow.

Data.govt.nz helps people discover, collect, manage, use, share, re-use data. Learn about our history, the technology we use, and the partnership with DIA that makes it all possible.

The Wayback Machine is an initiative of the Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Other projects include Open Library & archive-it.org. Your use of the Wayback Machine is subject to the Internet Archive's Terms of Use.

NZ On Air connects and reflects our nation. We ensure New Zealanders can experience public media that is authentically New Zealand.

The Media History Digital Library (MHDL) digitizes collections of classic media books and magazines not in the public domain. It currently hosts nearly 2 million pages of digitized books and magazines from the histories of film, broadcasting, and recorded sound.

Video interviews with, biography, and details of cast and crews of Aotearoa film productions.

This collection includes: FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database; AFI Catalog; and, Film Index International.

A national filmography documenting the history of American cinema. Cataloguing currently covers the years 1893-1974 comprehensively, with additional records covering selected major films from 1975 onwards.

Welcome to Screenworks – the peer-reviewed online publication of practice research in film and screen media. Screenworks is committed to real and immediate open access (OA) for the publication of screen media practice research. All of our submissions are free to access immediately from the date of publication.

Films, television and radio programs, videos, audiotapes, records, compact discs, phonograph cylinders, and wire recordings.

This library contains over two hundred thousand free digital recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by users.

Discover rare and previously unpublished American History content. Deep dive into the Civil War, Gay Rights, the Space Race, the Great Depression and much more.

Welcome to the Silent Film Sound & Music Archive. Since 2014, we’ve been digitizing and sharing printed music for the silent cinema.