If you're looking for information on a particular topic for research or course work, you can use the following resources to search the contents of journals and e-journals for articles that match your area of interest.
Each resource allows you to search a collection of information in particular subject areas, for example film, performing arts fine art or design. Each collection may include the contents from hundreds of journals but will not include everything that has been published. To get a larger number of relevant results, don't just rely on one resource but try a number that cover your subject area.
If you need help with using any of these resources please contact your Subject Librarian.
Most of these resources require an Athens username and password to access. Don't have an Athens account? Find out more about Athens.
Check whether the journal you are looking for is available online through AUCB Library. This resource provides a full list. Search by title or browse by subject. You will need your Athens username and password for access.
ABM (ARTbibliographies Modern)
Provides detailed references to modern and contemporary art, including photography, fashion, theatre arts and crafts in major art journals, books, museum bulletins and exhibition catalogues from 1982 to the present.
Off campus? You will need your Athens username and password for access.
American Film Institute Catalog
Produced in collaboration with the American Film Institute, the American Film Institute Catalog is the premier resource for studying American motion pictures. It contains thousands of data entries on films ranging from well-known studio blockbusters to obscure, once-lost period films. The catalog is a valuable tool for film research and preservation activities.
Off campus? Access American Film Institute Catalog. Your Athens username and password will be needed.
A-N The Artists' Information Company
Resources for contemporary visual arts professionals.
Off campus? Access A-N The Artists' Information Company. Your Athens username and password will be needed.
Designed for study across the arts, this resource provides full-text coverage of 380 periodicals and more than 220 books. In addition, Art & Architecture Complete offers indexing and abstracts for more than 780 academic journals, magazines and trade publications and an Image Collection of over 63,000 images.
Off campus? Your Athens username and password will be needed.
Art Full Text Incorporating Art Abstracts
Full text access to 180 titles of journals indexed by Art Abstracts.
Off-campus? Your Athens username and password will be needed.
Bibliographic research database of the British Education Index, Australian Education Index and ERIC.
Off campus? Go to British Education Index. Your Athens username and password will be needed.
Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI)
Contains over 120,000 annotated references from more than 450 design and craft journals published since 1973 covering industrial design, architecture, interior design, environmental design, computer aided design, furniture design, ceramics, glass, jewellery, fashion design, textile design, graphic design, typography, multimedia design, illustration, book design, photography, advertising, marketing, retail design, packaging, exhibition design, theatre design, design and craft history, design and craft theory, ergonomics, design for disability.
Off campus? Your Athens username and password will be needed.
Film Index International
Bibliographic references to 100,000 films collated by the British Film Institute over the past 70 years as well as 40,000 biographical references to personalities.
Off campus? Go to Film Index International. Your Athens username and password will be needed.
FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals
Created by the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF), this resource indexes more than 300,000 articles from 300 of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals, dating from 1972 onwards, plus full text content from some of the most important journals. The database also incorporates Treasures from the Film Archives, which identifies silent film holdings in archives around the world, and the International Directory of Film/TV Documentation Collections.
Off campus? Go to FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals. Your Athens username and password will be needed.
Ingenta Journals
One of the largest websites for research articles, providing article summaries from over 25,000 publications. Covers all subject areas including humanities and social sciences, engineering and technology.
Off campus? Go to Ingenta Journals. Your Athens username and password will be needed.
Institution of Civil Engineers Virtual Library
Full text of ICE’s massive archive (including 18,000 illustrated papers) available on and off campus. Covers civil engineering, architecture, the built environment, building and construction, environmental studies, land management, property management, planning, transportation and urban design.
Your Athens username and password will be needed.
International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text
IIMP Full Text is the leading specialized index to periodicals for the general, undergraduate, and advanced study of music, and the only electronic index with abstracts to current music periodicals. It contains more than half a million indexed journal articles, the majority of which index the most recent eight years of publication, though some start as early as 1874. It also provides access to 125 full text journals covering cover both scholarly and popular periodicals in the areas of classical music, opera, jazz, popular music and pop culture, music education, musicology, music theory, performance and many others.
Off campus? Your Athens username and password will be needed.
International Index to the Performing Arts Full Text
Index of 180 journals from 1998 onwards including the arts, entertainment, dance, film, drama, theatre stagecraft and television with full text searching across 30 journals including film criticism.
Off campus? Your Athens username and password will be needed.
JSTOR
A full text archive of important scholarly journals in the fields of music, film studies, performing arts, religion and the history and study of art and architecture.
Off campus? Go to JSTOR. Your Athens username and password will be needed.
Marketing research reports providing detailed analysis of the UK consumer includes fashion retail reports and special reports covering British lifestyles. (4 simultaneous users only).
Off campus? Go to Mintel. Your Athens username and password will be needed.
Project Muse
Full text access to current content from prestigious humanities and social science journals published by some of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies. Coverage includes film, theatre and the performing arts, cultural studies, history and philosophy.
Off campus? Go to Project Muse. Your Athens username and password will be needed.
Search for journal articles across both the Proquest art and design databases (Arts Bibliographies Modern and Design and Applied Arts Index) from a single search page.
Off campus? Your Athens username and password will be needed.
Search for journal arcticles across all Proquest media and performance databases (International Index to Music Periodicals, International Index to the Performing Arts, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature) from a single search page.
Off campus? Your Athens username and password will be needed.
Architectural Publications Index (RIBA Library Catalogue)
Find books, journals, drawings and other material held by the British Architectural Library. Includes indexed articles from architectural journals with abstracts and references that enables you to find relevant material on your topic of interest.
Voted one of the Best 25 Music Sites by the Observer Music Monthly and one of the Best 40 Music Sites by The Daily Telegraph, online rock journalism library Rock’s Backpages is the largest database of it's kind online. It features over 17,000 articles on artists from Elvis Presley to Eminem, the Rolling Stones to the Stone Roses, and Amy Winehouse to the White Stripes, by some of the world's best know rock journalists and provides an invaluable resource for the study of media, music, cultural history, and many other subjects.
Off campus? Access Rock's Backpages. Your Athens username and password will be needed.
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