InfoGuides: SOFA 228 Animation Writing and Storyboarding: Databases (search for articles, videos, and more)

Last Updated: Oct 24, 2024 2:24 PM

Databases -- Best Bets

Databases can help you find journal articles, newspaper articles, images, and video tutorials. Below are selected key databases to assist you with your discovery and research. Use Database Finder to locate even more databases.

Journal Articles

Art & Architecture Source This link opens in a new window
Arts & Humanities Database This link opens in a new window
Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Literature Resource Center is a comprehensive literature database featuring biographical entries and author portraits, critical essays, reviews, overviews of frequently studied works, and thousands of full-text poems, short stories, and plays.

Newspaper Articles

News & Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Full text of regional, national, and international newspapers.
New York Times (1851-present) This link opens in a new window
Full-text coverage of the US newspaper of record. Offers superb coverage of national and international news, plus coverage of important speeches and documents, Supreme Court decisions, and presidential press conference transcripts.
Newspaper Source This link opens in a new window
Selected full text for regional, US and international newspapers. Full text of major television & radio news transcripts are provided.
US Newsstream This link opens in a new window
US Newsstream enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as some archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring top newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format. US Newsstream offers exclusive access to the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and co-exclusive access (with Factiva) to The Wall Street Journal. The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle is covered back to November 2002.

Image Collections

Artstor on JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Content includes over 2 million images covering art, architecture, archaeology and photography. Register for a free account to download and save groups of images!

DONATED: From the C. B. Neblette Collection on Photography and Reprography.
Associated Press Images Collection This link opens in a new window
Photo archive containing the Associated Press' photos, most since 1995, and a selection of pictures from their image library.

Video Tutorials + Streaming

Stash
Provides streaming access to the planet's largest online video archive of design, animation, and VFX – over 5,000 motion projects – plus behind the scenes features and exclusive interviews.

LinkedIn Learning This link opens in a new window
An online learning platform with video tutorials in a number of disciplines: 3D, video, business, photography, web design, graphic design, and more. Many tutorials are captioned.