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NetLibrary
"the world's premier provider of electronic books
(eBooks),"
offers the UMW community the ability to access a monograph collection that
currently stands at 10,690 titles. The broad subject area coverage of this
collection
is strongest in the areas of literature, history, business, health/medicine,
sociology and religion, though science, philosophy, computer science and education
are also well represented. Link from the UMW library homepage or the library
catalog.
Books
in Print (Global Edition)
Provides such information as names of publishers,
publication dates, series titles, and prices for in-print, out-of-print, and
forthcoming books from thousands of North Amercian publishers.
Includes thousands of full-text book reviews from
trusted review sources.
WorldCat
Provides access to a database of more than thrity
five million records, containing the merged catalogs of more than 15,000 libraries
around the world.
Amazon.com: Earth's Biggest
Bookstore
Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
Yes, there is a link to the Oscars <http://www.oscar.com/>
here, but the Academy's searchable home page offers a great deal more than
just a listing of Academy Award nominees and winners. Its resources include
a history of the Academy, an events calendar, profiles of the Academy Film
Archive and the Center for Motion Picture Study, photographs, annotated links
to press releases, schedules of lectures and seminars, and lists of Academy
publications. The Academy Award database allows you to search by keyword,
years (1927 to the present), and category. Another database contains information
from 1930 to date on the Scientific and Technical Awards. The Fennec Awards
Database <http://awards.fennec.org/> lists nominees and winners
for the Oscars, Golden Globes, and other motion picture and television awards.
Box Office Guru
Provides worldwide box office gross receipts and
other statistical data on motion pictures released from 1989 to date.
Boxoffice Online
This searchable version of the widely read trade
publication helps film buffs keep abreast of current news and trends. It provides
reviews of just-released and forthcoming motion pictures, reviews and box
office gross receipts of the current top ten pictures, reviews of new video
and DVD releases, and full-text "Daily Filmbiz News." Other features include
"cover stories" on the latest films, "sneak previews" of upcoming ones, "special
reports" on news and events affecting the movie industry, articles about motion
pictures, and interviews with actors, actresses, and directors. If you want
reviews of older movies, you can search through the archive Past Reviews,
which contains reviews from 1995 to date, or Classic Reviews, which
offers reviews of films that date back to the early 1930s.
The Greatest Films
Tim Dirks, a member of the Online Film Critics Society,
summarizes and reviews 200 English-language "landmark movies in the history
of American/Hollywood cinema." Other sections of his historical and informative
commentary on American motion pictures include listings of films ranked by
box office sales, Academy Award winners, motion pictures classified by film
genres, information on great directors and film stars, well-illustrated essays
on film history, and an annotated bibliography of film references.
Media
Review Digest
This FirstSearch database provides annotated reviews
of educational media and entertainment resources from more than 200 review
sources.
It offers coverage from 1989 to the present and is
updated quarterly.
MRQE: Movie Review Query Engine
For extensive movie review coverage, few--if any--sites
can match MRQE. Its database, which contains more than 200,000 full-text reviews
of over 25,000 films, regularly indexes hundreds of international resources,
including magazines, newspapers, newsletters, Web pages, and newsgroups. Film
titles are linked to the appropriate entries in The
Internet Movie Database.
NewsDirectory.com
Provides thousands of links to international English-language
media, including newspapers, magazines, and television stations.
Newslink
This site, produced by the American Journalism
Review, contains links to the home pages of newspapers, magazines, television
stations, radio stations, and other news services.
Publist.com
A centralized directory of periodicals, including
links to publishers and the copyright clearance center.
Ulrich's
Periodicals Directory
A directory of published periodicals; includes subscription, contact and
indexing information.
FACSNET
Provides resources for journalists and other news
persons.
The Foundation for American Communications (FACS)
is an independent, nonprofit, educational institution.
Kidon
Media-Link
A Web designer and a media-savvy career information
officer work with contributors from all over the world to maintain an international
directory of newspaper and news links. From the home page you can select a
continent (the United States has its own link) and then either click on a
country, territory, or state (each identified by its flag) or select a region
from a pull-down menu.
NewsDirectory.com
Provides thousands of links to international English-language
media, including newspapers, magazines, and television stations.
UMW Guide to Newspaper Resources
Newslink
This site, produced by the American Journalism
Review, contains links to the home pages of newspapers, magazines, television
stations, radio stations, and other news services.
Newslink
This site, produced by the American Journalism
Review, contains links to the home pages of newspapers, magazines, television
stations, radio stations, and other news services.
Radio-Locator
The easy-to-navigate Radio-Locator, formerly The
MIT List of Radio Stations on the Internet, furnishes links to more than 10,000
radio station Web pages and includes over 2,500 audio streams from radio stations
around the world (RealPlayer required).
Encyclopedia
of Television
Maintained by Chicago's Museum
of Broadcast Communications, this reference work originally appeared in
print in 1997 as a joint venture between the museum and Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers
(REFB PN1992.18 .E5 1997). The Encyclopedia of Television includes more than
1,000 essays by over 250 contributors on programs, networks, people, and television-related
subjects in the United States, Britain, Canada, and Australia. It also covers
"historic moments and trends, major policy disputes, and such topics
as violence, tabloid television and the quiz show scandal." Essays contain
photographs, bibliographies, and such resource material as casts, producers,
and programming histories (for programs) and listings of television series
and films (for actors).
Epguides.com
Epguides.com contains episode lists for over 1,800
past and current American, British, Canadian, and Australian television shows.
The core "Titles & Air Dates Guide" for each program provides
such basic information as cast, airdates, network, runtime, number of episodes,
episode titles, etc. More than 500 of these listed shows (a number that increases
regularly) appear in boldface and are linked to detailed "Episode Guides,"
which include plot summaries, guest casts, writers, directors, etc. Program
titles and names of cast members in each guide are linked to The
Internet Movie Database.
FACSNET
Provides resources for journalists and other news
persons.
The Foundation for American Communications (FACS)
is an independent, nonprofit, educational institution.
NewsDirectory.com
Provides thousands of links to international English-language
media, including newspapers, magazines, and television stations.
Newslink
This site, produced by the American Journalism
Review, contains links to the home pages of newspapers, magazines, television
stations, radio stations, and other news services.
PBS Online
The non-profit Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
is a media enterprise that uses noncommercial television and the Internet
to advance education, culture, and citizenship "through quality programs
and education services that inform, inspire and delight." The expertly
designed PBS Online helps fulfill this mission with over 135,000 pages
devoted to the arts, history, science, and technology. The searchable Web
site features an A-Z directory of links to PBS programs, local television
schedules, a PBS station finder (enter a ZIP code or choose a state), and
an online store.
TV Guide Online
This electronic version of the well-known weekly
magazine provides televsion schedules, Nielsen ratings, interviews, soap opera
updates, entertainment news, and much more. The MovieGuide furnishes box office
statistics, answers emailed movie questions, and provides reviews of films
and recently released videos.
TV Show
Formerly titled Television Schedules of the World,
this searchable and easy-to-navigate directory features annotated websites
"for everything and anything television related from all around the world."
Divided into seven major resource sections, TV Show provides links to shows
and programs, schedules and listings, personalities, news, television stations,
production information, and technology.
TVWEBLink (Television Network Directory)
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