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Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, screenwriting, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. This database provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for hundreds of publications, with many articles and books available in full-text.

This multidisciplinary database indexes over 6,0001+ scholarly journals, with full text for almost 3,100 titles. Covers social sciences, humanities, education, computer science and engineering, general science, medicine, ethnic studies, and more. 1975 - present for selected titles.

Full text journals and books in the humanities and social sciences from several university presses and scholarly societies. 1993- present for some titles.
Note: Funded by the Beckwith Memorial Endowment.

Core academic journals in mathematics, humanities and social sciences disciplines, beginning with their first volumes (sometimes dating back to the 1800s). Issues from the most recent 3-5 years are not available electronically through JSTOR; however, they may be available through their publishers or other vendors.
Note: Funded by the Beckwith Memorial Endowment.

Over one million citations to books, scholarly journals, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies from languages, literatures, linguistics and folklore. 1926 - present.

Offers a variety of documentary and feature film from an array of producers and distributors including BBC Active, California Newsreel, Criterion Collection/Janus Films, Documentary Educational Resources, First Run Features, Green Planet Films, Kino Lorber Edu, Media Education Foundation, National Film Board of Canada, PBS, Psychotherapy.net, and the DEFA Film Library's (East) German Film Collection. Films the library has already licensed will play automatically. Other titles may be discovered and requested for library purchases through the Kanopy interface.
Note: Kanopy's mediated access will require users to submit a request to purchase a title for a course. You will notice a pop-up screen that will ask for additional information when you attempt to view titles that are not yet owned by the library. Please visit the Kanopy guide for more information.

A streaming video database that offers over 30,000 titles. The videos cover a variety of academic subjects, from producers such as BBC, PBS, Meridian, National Geographic, and more. Links can be shared through email, integrated into WebCampus, or viewed in the classroom.

*A University of Nevada, Reno NetID required to view films.
Offering streaming through their Swank Digital Campus service, Swank Motion Pictures is the nontheatrical distributor for the majority of the major Hollywood studios as well as many independent, foreign, art house, and documentary offerings.

Instructors: To search films that are available for licensing, visit the Digital Campus. Contact the Subject Librarian for your department or program to discuss your film recommendations.

This resource delivers more than 66,000 video titles spanning a wide range of subject areas and includes content from over 1,500 leading distributors, producers, and filmmakers.