Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery

Article Databases

• Academic Search Premier (Ebsco)

  Coverage: varies
  Provides full-text for over 3,400 scholarly journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education, sciences, and more. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL).

• Alternative Press Index [API]

  Coverage: 1991 - present
  Indexes roughly 380 alternative, radical, and left publications, which report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, political, and social change.

• Art Abstracts (Ebsco)

  Coverage: 1984 - present
  Indexes and abstracts international English-language arts publications covering advertising, archaeology, crafts, folk art, graphic arts, design, video, film, architecture and art history.

• JSTOR

  Coverage: varies
  Electronic archive of selected core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Includes full-text of all articles published prior to the most current five years. UMBC subscribes to Arts & Science I, II, III, General Science, Ecology & Botany.

• Music & Performing Arts Online

  It brings the International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) and the International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA) together in one site, enabling users to search both resources simultaneously. It covers areas such as music, theatre, dance, television, film, and other performing arts

• Project Muse

  Coverage: varies
  Searchable full-text of select journals in the humanities and social sciences. UMBC subscribes to its Basic Undergraduate Collection.

• Web of Knowledge

  Coverage: 1998-present
  The Web of Knowledge includes Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Covers approximately 8,700 high impact research journals and provides access to cited and citing references. Additional searchable resources on the Web of Knowledge homepage (select from dropdown menu).

• Alternative Press Index. 1969 - present.
  Location: REF INDEX
  Indexes alternative, radical, and independent periodicals. Access is by the term film reviews
  
  
• Film Literature Index. 1973 - present.
  Location: REF INDEX
  Indexes approximately 300 film journals. Access is by name of the film
  
  
• Humanities Index. 1974 - 1999.
  Location: REF INDEX
  Indexes approximately 400 publications that make up the core literature in the field of humanities, including film. Access is under motion picture reviews - single works
  
  
• International Index to Film Periodicals. 1972 - present.
  Location: REF INDEX
  Indexes approximately 85 periodicals from around the world. Access is by name of the film
  
  
• Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature. 1900 - present.
  Location: REF INDEX
  
  
• The Times. (London). 1906 - present.
  Location: REF INDEX
  From 1906 to 1962, access is under the term cinematograph. From 1963, access is under the term films. For reviews from 1990 to the present, use Lexis Nexis Academic listed above in the Full Text Reviews section