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Scholarly Article Databases
Databases are searchable collections of articles from a variety of journals, usually related to a specific topic or subject area. You can also find articles through the OMNI search bar on the Library's homepage, but the databases listed below are ones that may provide higher relevancy to New Media topics.
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Art Full Text This link opens in a new windowArt Full Text provides comprehensive abstracting and indexing for periodicals published throughout the world. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included.
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Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new windowCommunication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media.
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DAAI: Design and Applied Arts Index This link opens in a new windowThe premier source of information for all aspects of design and crafts, from textiles and ceramics to vehicle design, advertising and sustainability. Covers journal articles, exhibition reviews and news items from 1973 to the present.
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Project MUSE This link opens in a new windowProject Muse provides online access to the full text of over 250 quality journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers in the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, mathematics and many others.
Toronto Metropolitan now has access to the following 2022 collections: African Studies, Gender Studies, History, Language and Linguistics, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Music, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Philosophy and Religion, Political Science and Policy Studies, Public Health and Health Policy, Russian and East European Studies -
JSTOR This link opens in a new windowJSTOR has created a full text digital archive of core scholarly journals with complete back runs of many titles. As part of JSTOR’s agreement with publishers, current issues (usually the last 3 – 5 years) are not digitized by JSTOR and may be obtained elsewhere. The Toronto Metropolitan University Library has access to the entire content of JSTOR’s archival journal collections.
New Media Journals
You can also browse and search individual journals. This is a great way to keep up with the most recent articles, or discover what topics are curerently being explored in a certain discipline.
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ApertureAperture, a not-for-profit foundation, connects the photo community and its audiences with the most inspiring work, the sharpest ideas, and with each other—in print, in person, and online.
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AfterimageThe Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism has served as an important voice in the media arts. The journal features unique, high-quality coverage of digital media, film, games, photography, television, video, and visual arts, as well as addresses important issues and debates within art history, media studies, visual and cultural studies, and related fields.
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Art JournalProvides a ideas and opinions that focuses on critical and aesthetic issues in the visual arts of our times.
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Artforum InternationalArtforum is an international monthly magazine specializing in contemporary art.
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Border CrossingsInvestigates contemporary culture through a combination of articles, reviews, interviews and portfolios of photographs and drawings. More curated than edited, it occupies a vital place in the geographic centre of the North American continent.
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LeonardoLeonardo, founded in 1968, has become an international channel of communication for artists who use science and developing technologies in their work. With emphasis on the artists' writings, Leonardo is the leading international journal for readers interested in the application of contemporary science and technology in their work. The companion annual journal, Leonardo Music Journal (LMJ) features the latest in music, multimedia art, sound science and technology.
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OctoberAt the forefront of art criticism and theory, October focuses critical attention on the contemporary arts—film, painting, music, media, photography, performance, sculpture, and literature—and their various contexts of interpretation.
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ParachuteA bilingual Canadian contemporary art magazine, no longer being published.
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New Media & SocietyProvides an interdisciplinary forum for the examination of the social dynamics of media and information change.
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Media and CommunicationMedia and Communication is an international open access journal dedicated to a wide variety of basic and applied research in communication and its related fields.
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International journal of performance arts and digital mediaDraws on research from the rapidly developing interface between new technologies and performance arts. Topics include cultural mediatization, live performance with interactive systems, and motion capture technologies, among many others.
News Sources
Newspapers can provide access to information about exhibitions, contemporary reviews and critiques of exhibitions, films, and books, and interviews with artists, curators, and directors.
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Globe and Mail This link opens in a new window
Full Text Coverage from 1977 hosted on Proquest Platform. See ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Globe and Mail for older material.
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ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Globe and Mail This link opens in a new window
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
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Canadian Newsstream This link opens in a new window
This database offers access to the full text of several Canadian newspapers from Canada's leading publishers. This full text database includes the complete available electronic backfile for most newspapers, providing full access to the articles, columns, editorials and features published in each. Some backfiles date as far back as the late 1970s.
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US Newsstream This link opens in a new windowUS Newsstream is part of Global Newsstream. It enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format. For academic and public libraries, US Newsstream offers exclusive access to the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and co-exclusive access (with Factiva) to The Wall Street Journal. US Newsstream also offers one of the largest collections of local and regional newspapers, and is cross-searchable on the ProQuest platform.
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ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Times This link opens in a new window
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
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ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Toronto Star This link opens in a new window
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
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ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Washington Post, The This link opens in a new window
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
Coverage: 1877-2008
Reference Works
For background information on your subject, you can consult reference materials (eg dictionaries, directories, handbooks). Some useful reference resources related to New Media are:
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Oxford Reference This link opens in a new windowOxford Reference, previously known as Oxford Reference Online Premium, comprises more than 120 dictionaries and reference titles covering a comprehensive subject spectrum including: General Reference, Language, Science and Medicine, Humanities and Social Sciences, Business and Professional content.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online - Cinema and Media Studies This link opens in a new windowOxford Bibliographies in Cinema and Media Studies has recruited many of the finest scholars in cinema and media studies to chart a path through the information thicket and toward a carefully organized, thoroughly peer-reviewed account of the most important books, articles, and Web sites. With frequent updates, Oxford Bibliographies in Cinema and Media Studies is an essential resource for students, faculty, and researchers.