Subject Guides: New Media/Intermedia: Databases, Journals, & Videos

Selection of Relevant Databases

Subject-Specific Databases in Art, Information Science, and Computing

ACM Digital Library
Full-text of over 40 Association for Computing Machinery computing and information technology journals, magazines and transactions, conference proceedings, and newsletters, dating from the 1950s to the present.
Art Full Text
Bibliographic database that indexes articles from 1984 to present about art, architecture, archaeology, crafts, design, museology, photography, television and textiles, in addition to all aspects of art including graphic, folk, and decorative, from periodicals published throughout the world.

Bibliography of the History of Art
The Getty provides access to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) and to the Répertoire international de la littérature de l'art (RILA) for no charge on its Web site. These citation databases, searchable together, cover material published between 1975 and 2007. If you find journal articles of interest, check URSUS to see if we have the journals from the years of interest.

Communication and Mass Media Complete
Research and reference resource with coverage of more than 500 journals in the communication and mass media fields.
IEEE Xplore
Over 170 journals and magazines published by the IEEE and IET, along with transactions, conference proceedings and active IEEE standards. These publications are relevant to many disciplines, including electrical engineering, computer science, electronics, sensors, energy, aerospace, communications, nanotechnology and information technology.

International Bibliography of Art
Picking up where Bibliography of the History of Art leaves off, visual arts in all media are covered: architectural history, painting, sculpture, drawing, video, installations, new media, decorative and applied arts, museum studies and conservation, archaeology, folk art and material culture, classical studies, antiques.
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The database will grow by 18,000 records per year, ensuring unbroken coverage of journals that were indexed in BHA and IBA prior to 2010. The initial data set created by the Getty Research Institute in 2008-2009 covers scholarship up to 2009, including retrospective records for material published in previous years, and in some cases the new ProQuest indexing will also cover retrospective years in order to fill gaps in coverage.

Library Information Science and Technology Abstracts
Covers librarianship, classification, information management, and more. Indexes more than 700 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings, with coverage dating back to the mid-1960s.

Interdisciplinary Databases

Google Scholar
Search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.

To remove books from your results, you can enter "-books" in your search.
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Digital archive of more than 1,000 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, some dating from the 19th century.
Project Muse
Full-text access to scholarly articles from fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.

Looking for other databases? Try our A-Z list.

Looking for other journals? Try an URSUS Journal Search.

Academic Video Online
Educational, streaming videos, including a range of software tutorials.
LearningExpress Library
An interactive online learning platform featuring over 770 practice tests, tutorials, and eBooks related to job search and workplace skills improvement, career certification and licensing exam preparation, college entrance and graduate school admissions exam preparation, GED exam preparation, and basic skills improvement in reading, writing, and math, for all ages. Tutorials include Microsoft and Adobe products.