Library Guide for Animation and Interactive Media: Databases

Artstor features an unparalleled range of images from some of the world's leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists in one easily-navigated repository. It facilitates research and education in numerous disciplines, including art and visual studies, architecture, religion, anthropology and archaeology, global studies, fashion and costume, classics, world history, and more.

Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. The database provides coverage of more than 850 journals, including full-text for more than 500 journals. Coverage for significant titles in the field goes back to their very first issue (as far back as 1915).

Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text is the definitive online tool for film and television research. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, screenwriting, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. The database provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 380 publications (and selected coverage of 300), as well as full text for more than 120 journals, and 100 books. In addition, Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text includes Variety movie reviews from 1914 to the present and over 36,300 images from the MPTV Image Archive. Discipline: Cinema & Television

Oxford Art Online offers access to the most authoritative, inclusive, and easily searchable online art resources available today, including an expanding range of Oxford's acclaimed art reference works--Grove Art Online, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics and The Oxford Companion to Western Art--as well as many specially commissioned articles and bibliographies available exclusively online.

WARC is an online service offering advertising best practice, evidence and insights from the world's leading brands. Offering an indispensable combination of global marketing and advertising information, it contains thousands of award-winning marketing and communications case studies, research papers, conference reports, company profiles, trends, and selected industry data.

华艺学术文献数据库是台湾收录文献量最大的学术数据库，收录了近2千种学术期刊（共计49万余篇期刊文章）和台湾55所高校近10万篇学位论文。数据库中90%以上的期刊为台湾期刊，总计收录台湾超过80%以上的核心期刊 -- 包括93%的台湾科学核心期刊索引（TSCI）期刊，85%的台湾人文学核心期刊索引（THCI Core）期刊，89%的台湾社会科学核心期刊索引（TSSCI）期刊 -- 内容涵盖人文學、基础与应用科学、医药卫生、生物农学、工程學、社会科学等六大领域。数据库收录的学术论文中，92%为台湾重要高校学位论文，其中台湾大学学位论文超过38,000篇，约占学位论文总篇数1/3。

本数据库包括《中国博士学位论文全文数据库》和《中国优秀硕士学位论文全文数据库》，是目前国内资源完备、质量上乘、连续动态更新的中国博硕士学位论文全文数据库。本库出版530余家博士培养单位的博士学位论文57余万篇，800余家硕士培养单位的硕士学位论文595余万篇，最早回溯至1984年，覆盖基础科学、工程技术、农业、医学、哲学、人文、社会科学等各个领域。

本数据库是第一部以全文数据库形式大规模集成出版学术期刊文献的电子期刊，是目前具有全球影响力的连续动态更新的中文学术期刊全文数据库。其中，中文学术期刊8450余种，含北大核心期刊1970余种，网络首发期刊3000余种，最早回溯至1915年，共计6280余万篇全文文献；外文学术期刊包括来自80多个国家及地区900余家出版社的期刊7.5余万种，覆盖JCR期刊的96%，Scopus期刊的80%，最早回溯至19世纪，共计8790余万篇外文题录。

中国年鉴网络出版总库是目前国内较大的连续更新的动态年鉴资源全文数据库。内容覆盖基本国情、地理历史、政治军事外交、法律、经济、科学技术、教育、文化体育事业、医疗卫生、社会生活、人物、统计资料、文件标准与法律法规等各个领域。目前年鉴总计5560余种，4万余本，3680余万篇。

本库包含中国重要会议论文全文数据库和国际会议论文全文数据库两个子库，重点收录1999年以来，中国科协系统及国家二级以上的学会、协会，高校、科研院所，政府机关举办的重要会议以及在国内召开的国际会议上发表的文献，部分重点会议文献回溯至1953年，目前，已收录国内会议、国际会议论文集3万本，累计文献总量380余万篇。

中国重要报纸全文数据库是以学术性、资料性报纸文献为出版内容的连续动态更新的报纸全文数据库。自2000年以来收录并持续更新各级重要党报、行业报及综合类报纸 500 余种。

中国工具书总库是超大型的中文工具书在线检索平台，与上海辞书出版社、商务印书馆、中华书局等200余家出版社长期合作，汇集了1.4万余部工具书，约2200万词条，410余万张图片，数据丰富，体系完整，资源覆盖各学科、各领域。

Academic Search Ultimate is an upgrade from Academic Search Premier (complete). The ultimate edition was developed to meet the increasing demands of scholarly research. It includes academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos in virtually every discipline ranging from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, law and literacy to mathematics, pharmacology, women's studies, zoology and more. It provides full text for more than 10,000 journals and magazines, including full text for more than 9,000 peer-reviewed journals.

MLA International Bibliography with Full Text combines the definitive index for the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, film and teaching with an extensive collection of full text. Many of the most-used journals in the MLA International Bibliography are covered in full text, including Applied Linguistics, Critique, and College Composition & Communication.

EThOS is a database maintained by the British Library. Its aim is to provide a single point of access for researchers all over the world to access doctoral research theses awarded by UK Higher Education Institutions. There are approximately 500,000 records relating to theses awarded by over 120 institutions.

Academic OneFile provides millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources, including thousands of podcasts and transcripts from news outlets. It includes more than 11,000 peer-reviewed journals (more than 8,000 in full text), and major reference sets including Gale Encyclopaedia of Science and Encyclopaedia of World Biography.

Journal Citation Reports provides information about academic journals, including impact factors. It allows users to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from approximately 12,000 scholarly and technical journals and conference proceedings from more than 3,300 publishers in over 80 countries/regions. It is the only source of citation data on journals, and includes virtually all specialties in the areas of science, technology, and social sciences.

JSTOR is a multidisciplinary archive of academic journals, books, and primary source objects. JSTOR helps user discovers, uses, and builds upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform, and preserves this content for future generations. LRC has full text access to about 2,000 journals in Arts & Sciences collections in JSTOR, covering the areas of history, economics, language & literature, statistics, political science, sociology, and more.Please note that issues of recent 3-5 years are not available due to licensing agreement between the publishers and JSTOR.

National Geographic Virtual Library offers access to the complete archive of National Geographic magazine--every page of every issue--along with a cross-searchable collection of images and maps.

Oxford Music Online is the access point for Grove Music Online and other Oxford music reference resources. With over 60,000 articles written by over 6,000 music scholars, Grove Music Online (GMO) is the authoritative resource for music research with an ongoing mission to chart the diverse history and cultures of music and musicians from around the globe.

Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social sciences content; since 1995, its electronic journal collections have supported a wide array of research needs at academic, public, special, and school libraries worldwide. MUSE books and journals, from leading university presses and scholarly societies, are fully integrated for search and discovery.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global offers access to 5 million citations to dissertations and theses from around the world from 1637 to the present day together with over 2.7 million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works. Over 200,000 new dissertations and theses are added to the database each year.

ProQuest One Academic offers access to four core multi-disciplinary products ¨C ProQuest Central, Academic Complete, Academic Video Online and ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. Academic Complete provides authoritative, full-text e-books in a wide range of subject areas along with powerful tools to find, use, and manage the information. Academic Video Online makes video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, and more. ProQuest Central is the largest single periodical resource available, bringing together complete databases across all major subject areas. It also includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, with a citation coverage dating back to 1637. It offers full text access to more than 2.7 million works. Each year over 200,000 works are added.

Sage Research Methods is the ultimate methods library with more than 1000 books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos by world-leading academics from across the social sciences, including the largest collection of qualitative methods books available online from any scholarly publisher.

Sage Research Methods Cases are stories of how real research projects were conducted. The collection provides more than 1100 case studies, showing the challenges and successes of doing research, written by the researchers themselves. Cases are peer-reviewed and come with pedagogical tools including learning objectives and discussions questions. They can be used as a teaching tool to demonstrate a particular method and how it is applied in real research, or as inspiration to students who are preparing for their own research project.

Sage Research Methods Datasets is a collection of teaching datasets and instructional guides that give students a chance to learn data analysis by practicing themselves. Through practicing analysis using real data from Sage Research Methods Datasets, students can see how analytic decisions are made and learn to become confident researchers.

Sage Research Methods Video contains more than 125 hours of video, including tutorials, case study videos, expert interviews, and more, covering the entire research methods and statistics curriculum. Through these videos, students can find extra help and support to guide them through every step of their research project and succeed in their research methods course.

Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database for peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. It delivers a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Scopus also features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.

Taylor & Francis Online offers full text access to millions of quality, peer-reviewed journal articles published under the Taylor & Francis and Routledge imprints. It now includes more than 2,000 journals covering a wide range of subject areas from the social sciences and humanities to science and technology.

Web of Science is a collection of databases that index the world's leading scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, as published in journals, conference proceedings, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions across the globe. LRC subscribes to the following citation indexes:

Wiley Online Library hosts the world's broadest and deepest multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. LRC has full text access to contents in the 3 collections of Social Sciences & Humanities, Information Science & Computing and Mathematics & Statistics.

Blackwell Reference Online contains more than 700 acclaimed reference books published by the renowned Wiley-Blackwell from the humanities and social sciences through to business and economics.

CADAL (China Academic Digital Associative Library) is a government-sponsored cooperative project of more than 120 academic libraries (2020), about half of which are from China, to create electronic resources for the use of their patrons. The major resource created by CADAL is a collection of 2.67 million scanned books and is constantly increasing.
Please note that new users must first create an account with their UIC email address.

Ebook Central is an ebook platform offering authoritative ebooks in a wide range of subject areas by the world's leading publishers. Ebook Central covers more than 130,000 e-books in business & economics, computers & IT, language & literature, physical sciences, life sciences, sociology, social work, and more, along with powerful tools to help you find, use, and manage the information you need.

Flipster is an easy-to-use digital magazine platform where users can conveniently read magazines on their computers or mobile devices. Users can access Flipster via a web browser, or download magazines to read offline, anytime and anywhere, on Flipster app. Magazines (unlimited access) available on this platform include The Atlantic, Allrecipes, BBC Science Focus, Consumer Reports, Discover, Diplomat, MIT Technology Review, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, National Geographic, Newsweek Global, Science News, The Week and TIME.

Developed with scholars and librarians worldwide, Oxford Bibliographies offer research guides to subject-specific scholarship, combining the features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia.

Oxford Scholarship Online provides quick and easy access to the full-text of over 10,000 academic works published by Oxford University Press in 20 subject areas, covering the humanities, social sciences, medicine and law.

华艺电子书数据库是目前中国台湾地区收录数量最大的电子书数据库，收录超过30,000册优质书籍，并持续更新。图书涵盖教育、法学、语言学、文学、哲学、应用科学、社会科学、宗教、艺术、地理研究等130余种主题，全面覆盖不同学科需求。本数据库提供电脑端在线阅读和App下载阅读两种方式。

汇雅电子图书平台是由北京超星公司推出的电子图书数据库，图书馆购买了电子图书40余万种，涵盖经济、政治、文学、艺术、历史、教育、农业、医学等各个学科。