GALILEO@UGA Subject Guides: EMST5440: Television History Research: Home

Selected Publications

Broadcasting (& Cable)

Indexing:
Academic OneFile (1981-1993)
ProQuest Central (1988-current)

Full Text:
Academic OneFile (1984 - 1993, text only)
Factiva (1989 - current, text only)
ProQuest Central (1996 - current, text only)
Business Source Complete (1999 - current, text/PDF)

Physical Holdings:
As Broadcasting: 1935 - 1959 in Off-Site Storage, 1960 - 1993 on 3rd floor, Main Library, PN1991. B7
As Broadcasting & Cable: 1993 - 2009, with spotty coverage

Hollywood Reporter

Indexing:
Business Source Complete (1995 - current)

Full Text:
Factiva (1991 - current, text only)
Business Source Complete (2008 - current, text only)

Physical Holdings:
Main Library 3rd floor: PN1993 H612 (1973, 1974, 1976, 1977)

TV Guide

Indexing:
Fine Arts & Music Collection (1977 - current)

Full Text:
The archive on the TV Guide site goes back about a decade.

Physical Holdings:
Microfilm PN1992. T453 (1953 - 2013)

Variety

Indexing:
ProQuest Central (1972 - current, with gaps)
Film & Television Literature index (1994 - present, additional selective coverage back to 1988)

Full Text:
Film & TV Literature (1999 - current. Text and PDF.)
ProQuest Central (They claim 1972, but I'm very, very dubious. Text only.)

Physical Holdings:
Current issues are in Current Periodicals on second floor of Main Library. Items in that area are shelved alphabetically by title.
Microfilm PN2000. V3 (1905-2016, January 2017)

General Research for Television

Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text
Articles and reviews of films and television programs.

Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text provides scholarly journal and magazine articles, film and television reviews, and selected book chapters on film and television criticism, history, theory, production, cinematography, and technological innovations.
MLA International Bibliography
Index to articles and books on modern languages, literatures, film, theatre, folklore, and linguistics.

The MLA International Bibliography indexes are critical in literary and language scholarship. They index literature, languages, linguistics, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, film, and folklore from over 4,400 journals and serials, as well as books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. Approximately 45,000 records are added annually. Classical Greek and Latin literature are not covered. This database is produced by the Modern Language Association. The print edition counterpart to this database began in 1921.
The MLA Directory of Periodicals is now part of the MLA International Bibliography. Included is information on the periodicals that are indexed in the database, plus many more. The Directory of Periodicals data is updated annually.
Business Source Complete
Business-related articles from many peer-reviewed and other journals, reports, company profiles, and other sources.

Business Source Complete is a scholarly business database that provides full-text access to many peer-reviewed business related journals, including disciplines such as marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Indexing and abstracts for the many important scholarly business journals as far back as 1886 are included. In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals, Business Source Complete contains detailed author profiles for the 20,000 most-cited authors in the database. Additional full-text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.
Academic Search Complete
Articles from some peer-reviewed journals as well as monographs, reports, conference proceedings, and other sources.

Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database is updated daily and features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full-text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals.
Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive
Historical collection of film and television industry magazines

Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive has the full text of ten major U.S. and U.K. trade magazines in film and television published between 1911-2000. UGA has access to the first "Cinema, Film, and Television Collection" with the following magazines:
American Film (US, 1975-1992)
Boxoffice (US, 1920-2000)
Broadcasting (US, 1931-2000)
Broadcast (UK, 1960-2000)
Contrast (UK, 1961-1965)
Film Journal International (US, 1934-2000)
Film Weekly (UK, 1928-1939)
Picturegoer (UK, 1911-1960)
Screen International (UK, 1975-2000)
Variety (US, 1905-2000)

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