Core Databases
- FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals This link opens in a new windowThis essential tool for film studies, created by the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF), indexes more than 300,000 articles from 300 of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals, dating from 1972 onward.
Search for journal articles in some of the Library's many article indexes or databases.
- Film and Television Literature Index This link opens in a new windowIndex to film and television literature that provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 380 publications, and selected coverage of 300 more.
- MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association) This link opens in a new windowIndexes scholarly research from 4,400 journals and series pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, folklore, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts (film, radio, television, theatre), and history of printing and publishing. It also covers relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats. Coverage from 1926 to the present.
More Databases
- CBCA (Canada Business and Current Affairs)Good source for coverage of Canadian authors and literature.
- Media History Digital LibraryCollection of classic media periodicals that belong in the public domain with extensive Runs of several important trade papers and fan magazines.
- Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective (1907-1984)Comprised of the most important scholarly journals published throughout the 20th century in North America and Europe.
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science) This link opens in a new windowA multidisciplinary index to the journal literature in the arts and humanities, covering over 1,700 scholarly journals from 1975 to the present.
- Historical AbstractsIndexes more than 2,300 academic historical journals beginning in 1955, excluding Canada and US history.
- America: History and LifeIndexes periodical articles on Canada and the US published from 1955 to the present. Also provides links to book and media reviews.
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowA multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowWorld's largest academic search engine providing free searching to a full range of scholarly literature (ie. peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, pre-prints, abstracts, technical reports).
- Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new windowA research and reference resource in the communication and mass media fields. Indexes and abstracts over 800 journals, and includes access to 500 full text journals.
Need Help Finding Journal Articles?
See the UBC Library Guide to Finding Articles. The guide shows you how to search for a known article from a list or in course reserve, find articles on a topic, and what to do when UBC Library doesn't have the article you're looking for.
Core Journals
