Media & Film Studies: Bibliographies & Indexes
Useful Databases available to SOAS
Academic Search Premier (via EBSCO host)
This is a multi-disciplinary database providing full text for more than 4,600 journals including peer-reviewed academic journals and magazine style journals.
Communication & Mass Media Complete (via EBSCO host)
This database offers full texts or indexes of articles from quality resources related to communication and mass media and other closely-related fields of study area.
Web of Science
This is a very powerful database which indexes a wide range of journals in various disciplines. You can access to the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index. This is a particularly useful database if you are looking for specific authors and their citation records.
Art Full Text & Abstracts
Full-text plus abstracts and indexing of an international range of Art related journals. Useful for keyword searching related film studies.
Ingenta Connect
It is a database covering 30,000 journals, with bibliographic information and abstracts in broad subjects.
JSTOR
JSTOR is the most popular database offering full-text archive collections from over 1000 academic journals.
Radio at BUVFC
The database of material broadcast by local radio stations between the years 1983 and 1990 in the U.K. The database contains about 1120 sound recordings.
TRILT
Database of over UK television and radio programmes from around 300 UK stations including terrestrial, cable, and satellite television (with regional variations), all national and many local radio stations.
News databases
This is the lists of the news databases available at SOAS. You can access newspapers, news wires and news transcripts from around the world. Access World News & BBC Monitoring Library are good places to start your search.
You will find more databases at A-Z List of Electronic databases. For off-campus use, log in via the A-Z electronic databases. You will be asked to insert ID & Password.
Beyond SOAS Library: databases
Senate House Library
As SOAS students, you are entitled to apply to Senate House Library for membership, on production of valid SOAS ID. The membership also will give off-site access to some electronic databases including databases below.
- British Cartoon archives
- Film & TV Database
- International Index to Performing Arts (IIPA) Full Text
- Newsfilm Online
