Finding Journal Articles

Quicksearch tourism journal databases using Supersearch

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• This quicksearch option searches across a number of science journal databases.
• It is useful for conducting an introductory search on a topic.
• To link to the full-text of articles (if available), click on the SFX button :

Quicksearch will often retrieve a large number of hits. If you need to conduct a more sophisticated search, try searching one or more of the individual databases listed below :

• Academic Search Elite Provides full text for over 1,200 journals covering the social sciences and humanities
• American Humanities Index:
  a collection of bibliographic references to literary, scholarly and creative journals published in the United States and Canada.
• Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre on EBSCOhost Contains full text articles from selected Australian newspapers, journals, and reference books..
• Australian Public Affairs (APAIS) - Full text on Informit- index to thousands of social sciences and humanities articles, includes full text articles from 320 journal titles.
• Communication & Mass Media Complete on EBSCOhost Available for a 1 year trial during 2004
• Electric Library
  Contains full text articles from selected Australian newspapers including The Australian and the Herald-Sun.
• Expanded Academic ASAP on InfoTrac
• Factiva Contains full text articles from hundreds of major newspapers.
• MediaScan -on Informit
  Media Scan is a bibliographic database featuring articles indexed from daily newspapers including: Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian, Herald Sun, Bulletin.
• ProQuest 500 International Contains a number of databases containing information on media telecommunications, and the arts. Includes the Proquest ANZ Newstand and the Academic Research Library
• World Magazine Bank on EBSCOhost General subject database including over 400 journal titles with over 140 titles in full text.

Browse Online Journals

• Online Film journals held at Swinburne Library
• Fulltext online Film and Video Journals available through Swinburne Library.
  Journals held include:
• Afterimage
• American Cinematographer
• Continuum - (Australian)
• Film Comment
• Film Criticism
• The Film Journal
• Independent film & video
• Journal of film and video
• Journal of popular film and television
• Jump cut
• Metro - Australian
• Rouge: contains scholarly articles on non-mainstream cinema
• Senses of Cinema: Melbourne-based online journal
• Sight and Sound
• Variety
• Velvet Light Trap
• Video Age International

Film Databases

• All Movie Database
• The Big Cartoon Database
• Bonza: an Australian and NZ film history database compiled by Cinema Studies students at RMIT
• British Film Institute - catalogues
• Internet Movie Database
• UCLA Film & Television Archive
• Urban Cinefile (Aust.) includes film reviews, interviews etc
• Variety

Film Gateways

• 100 Years of Movies
• BritMovie Website dedicated to British Cinema
• Cinema Sites: comprehensive list of news, reviews, studio information etc
• CineMedia - The internet's largest film and media directory
• The Encyclopaedia Of Fantastic Film and TV
• Film Buffs Forecast
• Film Sound information on the artistic and technological aspects on the sound and music in film
• Greatest Film Site
• Innersense Cinema: Independent film making and criticism (Aust.)
• MediaSearch Australian film resources
• OzFilm: a guide to Australian film
• The RML Movie Page Richard Lowensteins mammoth directory of links to Film, TV and production resources
• Urban Cinefile: Australian and Overseas film resources

Television Gateways

See the Media, Literature & Communication infogate

Awards and Film Festivals

• Australian Digital & Video Film Festival
• Film Festivals lists most international film festivals and award winners
• Directory of International Film & Video Festivals
• Documentary Festivals
• International Directory of Lesbian & Gay Film and Video Festivals
• Melbourne Fringe Festival
• Melbourne International Animation Festival
• Melbourne International Film Festival
• Melbourne Queer Film Festival
• Melbourne Underground Film Festival
• Noise this festival will profile young creative Australians and their works right across the media
• Popcorn Taxi Sydney and Melbourne film events
• Tropfest: the worlds largest short film festival

Film Reviews

• CineFiles (Pacific Film Archives) Searchable online reviews
• FilmCritic.com hosts more than 3,000 movie reviews
• Movie Review Query Engine the best search engine for locating full-text reviews online
• New York Times Movie archived reviews from the past 20yrs.
• The Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review
• Women's Studies Database Film Reviews
• Yahoo -Directory of Film reviews arranged by reviewer, genre etc.
• Film reviews can also be found on a number of library databases

Gender, Ethnicity & Sexuality

• Asians in Media
• Commercial Closet: improving lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender perceptions through better advertising
• Feminist Film Reviews (Uni. of Maryland)
• Gay Lesbian & Bisexual Television Characters
• Gay/Lesbians in Motion Pictures
• Gender, Ethnicity & Race in Media
• The Movies: Race & Ethnicity
• Outrate: gay film reviews
• PopcornQ Movies
  "The ultimate online home for the queer moving image."
• Selected Women & Gender Resources on the WWW
• Women & Film in Europe - includes festivals, databases and resources
• Women & Film Websites maintained by the Women's Studies Section of ACRL
• Women in Cinema: a reference guide : Philip McEldowney
• The Women in Film Organisation
• Women in Film & Television (Aust.)
• Women Make Movies

Organisations

• Australian Centre for the Moving Image
• Australian Children's Television Foundation
• Australian Film Commission
• Australian Film Institute
• Australian Film, Television & Radio School
• Cinema and Theatre Historical Society
• Film Australia
• Film Victoria
• Melbourne Film Office
• Office of Film and Literature Classification
• Screen Producer's Association of Australia
• Swinburne Media and Communication Department

Author: Gordon Turnbull (gturnbull@swin.edu.au)