• Books in Miller Library:
  
  
  • Reference:
    
    
    • Contemporary Authors
    • The Complete Index to Literary source in Film
    • 100 years of American film
    • Film Review Annual
    • Halliwell's film guide
    • Magill's Cinema Annual
    • The new biographical dictionary of film
    • VideoHound's golden movie retriever
      
       
  • Books in the main collection:
    
    
    • Subject search:
      
      
      • uses Library of Congress subject headings
      • film = PN 1865 - 1999
• start here and skim the subject headings:
  
  
  • Science fiction
  • Future in literature
  • Motion Pictures
  • Motion pictures and literature
  • Science fiction -- Motion Pictures
    
    
• Author Search:
  
  
  • Clarke, Arthur C.
    
    
• keyWord search in the title, contents, series, etc., e.g.:
  
  
  • motion pictures
    
    
    
• Books outside Miller Library:
  
  
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  • WorldCat
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• Academic Search Premier
  • indexes 4,500+ general and academic journals
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  • coverage from 1985+
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• JSTOR
  • 440+ scholarly journals, including film
  • complete run of all journals except for the most recent 3-5 years
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• Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography
  • the professional index in literature, language, linguistics, and folklore
  • indexes books, journals, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies
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  • coverage from 1963+
    
    
• WilsonWeb
  • 3,500+ general and academic journals
  • two components: OmniFile Full Text Mega and Humanities & Social Sci Retro
  • OmniFile Full Text Mega: indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text in 1994
  • Humanities & Social Sci Retro: index only, 1907-1984
  • 1,750 journals are full-text
    
    
• Check journal titles against the library's E-Journal Holdings
  
  
• Interlibrary Loan
  • free, online form, budget 1-2 weeks

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• New York Times - Movie Reviews
  • Browse more than 10,000 New York Times movie reviews.
    
    
• Lexis-Nexis Academic
  • 5,900+ national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources
  • full-text

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• Internet Movie Database (IMDB)
  • Internet database of extensive film information and credits for both domestic and international films. Many extra features and news. Can search by film title, actor, director or browse films listed by year.
    
    
• Google Directory's Movies
  
  
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• Hacker Online
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