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Selected Magazines and Journals

Streaming Video

Kanopy Streaming Video This link opens in a new window
Watch streaming films, documentaries, and training videos from Criterion Collection, Women Make Movies, First Run Features, and other leading producers. The library owns some titles on this platform, but most content is leased solely for classroom use; see https://library.mtsu.edu/mediaresources/policy
Kanopy Troubleshooting Guide
Kanopy Accessibility Statement
Creating playlists and/or clips (Must first create a Kanopy account)
Docuseek2 This link opens in a new window
Streaming documentary films from a number of sources, including Bullfrog Films, Icarus Films, and the National Film Board of Canada. Many films in this collection focus on social and environmental issues.
Docuseek Help Wiki
Instructors can register a personal account in order to create clips and playlists.

Recommended Databases

MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Journal articles and other resources in language, linguistics, and folklore.
Title List
Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Scholarly journals for arts, humanities, social sciences, and mathematics, 1990s to present.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Complete full text (page images) for back issues of various leading scholarly journals.
Historical New York Times This link opens in a new window
Full text digital archive of The New York Times, 1851-2018
LGBTQ+ Source (formerly LGBT Life with Full Text) This link opens in a new window
Full text for more than 140 LGBTQ journals, magazines and regional newspapers plus historically important primary sources, including monographs, magazines and newspapers. Also includes a specialized LGBTQ+ thesaurus containing thousands of terms.
Title List
LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940, Parts I&II This link opens in a new window
Primary sources on social, political, health, and legal issues affecting LGBTQ communities around the world. Includes Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance Archives, ca. 1972-1994
Includes over 50 separate collections.
Biography (Gale In Context) This link opens in a new window
Biographies, articles and bibliographies for prominent people in all fields.
600,000+ biographical entries — on more than 528,000 individuals — spanning history and geography. Search by Name, Occupation, Nationality, Birth Place, or Death Place.