Research Guides: Popular Culture: Find Articles

Finding Journals at FSU

To Locate a Specific Journal or Article:

From the library homepage, choose the link to find Articles. From here, you can use keywords to search for articles and journals, or you can search by a specific subject area. Some databases have direct links to the pdf or html versions of journal articles. In most databases, if there's not a direct link to the article, click on the

button.

Electronic journals will have links to the databases that provide access to them. Print or microform volumes will be listed as "Journals on the Shelf" and linked to the record in the Libraries' online catalog.

(Pop) Cultural Databases

These databases deal more specifically with pop culture/mass media (film, tv, music, literature, etc)

Pop Culture Universe: Icons, Idols, Ideals
Pop Culture Universe contains a comprehensive and authoritative collection of information on popular culture in America, both past and present.
Graphic Novels Core Collection
The Graphic Novels Core Collection addresses an emerging literary form for school and public libraries. It is a selective annotated list of graphic novels that allows for searching by categories of grade level, editorial recommendations and fiction/nonfiction/biography. The cover art delivers important insights into the suitability of each novel.
Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians Online
Covers musical composers, performers, scholars and persons whose contributions are in some way connected to the world of music. Includes 3,000 links to related sites that contain sound archives and illustrations and full-text searching capabilities. Global coverage of articles includes all genres of music from ancient times to the present.
Film and Television Literature Index
Film Literature Index
LI Online contains approximately 700,000 citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews published between 1976-2001.
International Index to Performing Arts
A performing arts journal resource with over half a million indexed articles, plus detailed abstracts and full text from 1864 to the present, covering theatre, dance and film.

Multidisciplinary Databases

These databases are more broadly based, but still contain resources relevant to popular culture. If you are off-campus, make sure to login through the FSU website on the "Off Campus Access" link.

To find the full text of the article, click on a link to the full text or the button in the database. Many journals are available online, but some are in the Libraries' print collection. Articles from journals not available at FSU may be requested through interlibrary loan.

Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 7,000 full-text periodicals, including nearly 6,000 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 11,000 journals and a total of more than 11,600 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
Academic OneFile (Gale)
Academic OneFile includes extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995.
JSTOR*
An archive of the back issues of core journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. The gap between the most recently published issue of any journal and the date of the most recent issue available in JSTOR is from 2 to 5 years.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Full-text coverage of general news, business, legal, governmental and other topics. Also called Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe. Also called Academic Universe.

Literature Resource Center*
Includes Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Literary Criticism Select Provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline.
MLA International Bibliography
Multilingual index to books and journals in the fields of literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore from 1926-present
Project MUSE*
Provides full text access to 200+ scholarly journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Subjects include art, anthropology, classics, culture, society, demographics, economics, folklore, history, language, literature, mathematics, medicine, theatre etc.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database indexing more than 1,100 arts and humanities journals, as well as relevant references from over 6,800 science and social sciences periodicals.

Google Scholar

Journals

Early Popular Visual Culture
Call Number: Electronic Resource eJournal--Click to Connect
Journal of Popular Culture
Call Number: E-Journal--Click to Connect
Studies in Popular Culture
Call Number: E-Journal; Click to Connect
Journal of Religion and Popular Culture
Call Number: E-journal; click to connect
Journal of American Studies
Call Number: E-Journal: click to connect
Studies in American Fiction
Call Number: E-journal: click to connect
Feminist Media Studies
Call Number: E-Journal; Click to Connect
Critical Studies in Media Communication
Call Number: E-journal: click to connect
Cinefantastique
Call Number: Full text available from Freely Accessible Arts & Humanities Journals: 09/01/1975 to present
E-Journal; click to connect