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Animation & New Media: Articles/Databases
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- use "quotation marks" around phrases
- truncate - with an asterisk * - truncat* finds truncate, truncated, truncation
- use AND to combine unlike ideas: dance AND promotion
- use OR to connect synonyms: advertisements OR campaigns
Put it all together:
- "hip hop dance" in one box
- AND (promot* OR advertis* OR campaigns) in the next box
- use parentheses in single-box searching - when you don't have another set of boxes, e.g.,:
- "hip hop dance" AND (promot* OR advertis* OR campaigns)
Use the left or right menus to narrow your results, e.g., by language, date, subject, etc.
- Databases have a citation and sometimes they will also contain an abstract, or summary, of the article.
- Databases also often cite multiple types of resources - books, essays or chapters, government documents, etc.
- Some databases will also have the complete item (called the full text): you should see a link to an HTML or PDF document. Or click on
- this will check other library databases for the full text.
Article Databases for Film & Video
- Film and Television Literature Indexarticles on all aspects of TV & movies
- MLA International Bibliography with Full Textarticles for film analyses.
- New York TimesNewspaper articles & movie reviews, up to 3 years ago.
- Communication Sourcejournal articles & more on all aspects of communication fields/majors
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