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Television studies is a concentration within the department of Film, Television and Theatre. In addition to support for undergraduate study and teaching the library strives towards providing resources that encourage and facilitate research in all areas of television studies . Two library endowments support building collections that include material in a variety of formats. The Alice Wolohan Hohmann Endowed Collection in the Arts is restricted to the acquisition of library materials on video or DVD, whereas the the R. Steven and Elizabeth A. Lutterbach Family Endowment in Film, Television and Theatre covers the range of formats and content.

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Recommended Resources (All Resources: 31 databases | 24 e-journals )

• Academic search premier (EBSCO)

  
  

  Coverage:

  Inclusive coverage: 1984 to present.
  "The world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database"--About page. It also includes indexing and abstracts for additional periodicals.

• Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

  
  
  Includes information about the Emmy Awards.

• Encyclopedia of Television

  
  
  The Encyclopedia of Television includes more than 1,000 original essays. It examines specific programs and people, historic moments and trends. It also includes histories of major television networks and is complemented by resource materials, photos and bibliographical information.

• Expanded academic ASAP

  
  

  Coverage:

  1980-
  Provides indexing, abstracts, and selected full text for 3,500+ scholarly journals and general interest periodicals embracing all academic disciplines (citations only for The New York Times). Full text for some titles may be subject to publisher-imposed embargo periods.

• Film literature index

  
  

  Coverage:

  1976-2001
  The FLI online database contains citations to film, television and video articles, reviews and book reviews. You can search the citations or browse by subject headings, browse by person names, browse by production titles, or browse by corporate names.

• International index to the performing arts full text

  
  

  Coverage:

  1864-
  Contains indexing, abstracting and some full text of the performing arts literature. Usage info: Licensed for four simultaneous users.Database coverage list for International Index to the Performing Arts

• LexisNexis academic

  
  
  Provides full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications, covering current news, business information, company directories, federal and state laws, regulations, legal cases, etc.

• Proquest Historical Newspapers

  
  
  Full text of major American newspapers

• Television news archive

  
  

  Coverage:

  1968- (ABC, CBS, NBC); 1995- (CNN); 2004- (FoxNews)
  Searchable archive of abstracts of news broadcasts from 1968 to present (ABC, CBS, NBC), 1995 to present (CNN), selected content from PBS and FOX News. Selected online video content from CNN and NBC viewable with RealOne media player. Descriptive summaries of the Vanderbilt University collection of network television news programs and other news-related programming collected in its archive since August 5, 1968. Loan copies of videotapes in 3/4 inch U-matic & 1/2 inch VHS. format are available for a fee from the Archive.News programming available in the archive

• Theatre in video

  
  
  Contains performances of the world's leading plays and film documentaries on the subject of theater in streaming video. Some plays presented in multiple productions exemplifying various interpretations of the text, and technical and cultural differences among the presentations. Stage work of directors and actors are cross-searchable and available for side-by-side comparison. Interviews with directors, designers, writers, and actors, along with excerpts of live performances, provide illustration of the development of texts and the productions. Usage info: Licensed for 3 simultaneous users.

• WorldCat

  
  
  Over 50 million bibliographic records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries; includes records describing manuscripts written as early as the 12th century.

Other Television Resources

General and local information: Awards and prizes

Formats: Electronic books and texts · Electronic journals · Multimedia · Video recordings (DVDs, films, etc.)

Research tools: Catalogs · Directories · Encyclopedias · Indexes and abstracts · Newspapers and news sources · Reviews (book, film, etc.)

E-Journal Collections: Cambridge University Press · Duke University Press · HighWire Press · Indiana University Press · Johns Hopkins Univ. Press · JSTOR · OUP (Oxford Univ. Press) · Periodicals Archive Online (formerly: PCI Full Text) · Project Muse · Taylor & Francis · Univ. of California Press · University of Hawaii Press

Genres: Drama