1. JumboSearch for Books

The library's catalog includes ebooks from the following collections, which you can search separately as well:

• Double check in the e-book collections below:
• ACLS Humanities E-Book
• Library Stack (independent ebooks on art, architecture, media studies, ...
• SAGE Knowledge (social Sciences)


• All Subjects:
• eBook Collection (in EBSCOhost)
• JSTOR
• Project MUSE
• ProQuest EBook Central

Note: WorldCat (renamed to be Libraries Worldwide on the Tisch Library homepage) is still a better place to get a fuller picture of  books on a topic, even though interlibrary loan service is currently very limited.)

2. Check the Boston Public Library's catalog for eBooks (and  sign up for a BPL eCard , Tufts students and faculty eligible)

3. "Digital books" on Internet Archive

4. Open Educational Resources (OER)
online alternatives that are accessible and free to all students

Titles of Interests:

• Cinema and Media studies (Oxford annotated bibliographies)
• Film art : an introduction (4th ed., digital)
• Film theory and criticism : introductory readings (5th ed., digtial)
• How to read a film: movies, media, and beyond : art, technology, language, history, theory (4th ed., digital)
• Dictionary of film terms: the aesthetic companion to film analysis (1994, digital)

• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: Collections (includes interviews)
• AFI catalog: American Film Institute catalog (1893-1974; 1975 - present for selected major films)
• Asian film online (streaming videos of narrative features, documentaries, and shorts. )
• Chambers Film Factfinder from silent cinema to the 21rst century.
• Film index international (from the first silent movies to the latest blockbusters.)
• The Film Noir Foundation (FNF)
• The New Biographical Dictionary of Film.
• UCLA Film & Television Archive
• Filmmakers Library Online (streaming video of award-winning documentaries

    Journal and Magazine Articles 

A. All-Subject Databases

• JSTOR
• Project Muse

B. Media, Television  and Cultural Studies Databases

• In EBSCOhost databases, select the following to search across
• Communication & Mass Media
• Film & Television Literature Index
• America: History & Life
• Bibliography of Asian Studies
• Historical Abstracts
• Women's Studies International

**Search by the title of the article in JumboSearch when the full text is not readily available in the databases.

Additionally Databases:

• Performing Arts Periodicals
• Screen Studies Collection (more foreign language publication)
• Index Islamicus (Middle Eastern Studies)

Select e-journals

• Camera Obscura
• Cinema Journal
• Discourse
• Film & History
• Film History
• Film Quarterly
• Framework
• Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television
• Journal of Film and Video
• Journal of Popular Culture
• Journal of Popular Film & Television
• The Movie Image
• PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art
• Projections
• Quarterly Review of Film and Video
• Screen
• The Velvet Light Trap
• Wide Angle

    Newspaper Articles 

• Access World News (rich regional news)
• Factiva (more international news)