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ENGL 3154: Contemporary American Writing: Recommended Databases

Recommended Databases for Literature and Film Research

8. The Brooklyn College Library subscribes to over 400 different article databases and although oneSEARCH searches a lot of them at the same time, it doesn’t search all of them.


From the Library’s website, click on the Databases link.

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One of the options ("Browse Databases by Title") will present you with an A-Z list of all the databases the Library subscribes to.

Try searching several (or all) of the databases below to look for articles in scholarly (peer-reviewed) journals.

Multi-disciplinary databases (cover a lot of different subjects, including literature, film, theater, and music):

  • Academic Search Complete
  • Humanities Sources
  • JSTOR
  • Project Muse

Subject-specific databases:

  • America: History and Life (American History)
  • Film and Television Literature Index
  • International Bibliography of Theater and Dance with Full Text
  • Literature Resource Center
  • MLA International Bibliography (Literature)
  • Music Index Online