Guides: Library Resources for Penn Human Resources: News, Articles & Movies

Popular Publications

WWD.com

News

FT.com
Use this link to set up your Financial Times online account.
The New York Times
The Penn Libraries' campus-wide subscription to The New York Times provides digital access to nytimes.com, including via tablet/mobile apps. This subscription does not include access to NYT Crossword/Games, Cooking, or e-reader editions (e.g. Kindle Fire, Nook).
Washington Post
Penn sponsored subscription to the Washington Post. For archival access options see Franklin Catalog.
WSJ.com
Personal account access to the WSJ.com website and mobile app access.
The DP Archives
This resource is hosted by the library and contains issues of the DP back to 1885. The collection is not entirely complete, but many issues are available.

Factiva
Current and historical news from thousands of publications worldwide in over 20 languages. Company overviews and stock data are available for public companies.
Nexis Uni
Covers thousands of news, legal and business sources including: print and online journals, television and radio broadcasts, newswires and blogs; local, regional, national and international newspapers with deep archives; extensive legal sources for federal and state cases and statutes
PressReader
Covers newspapers and magazines from more than 120 countries in more than 60 languages.

Trade, Academic & News Article Databases

Business Source Complete
Citations, summaries and full-text articles from business-focused academic journals, magazines and trade publications, as well as some company, industry and market reports.
ABI/Inform
Aggregates content from thousands of business and management publications worldwide, including scholarly and trade publications.
Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
Broad collection of fulltext scholarly journals and related periodicals in all scholarly disciplines. Includes bibliographic citations, indexing and abstracting for more than 8,000 periodicals. A component of EBSCO MegaFILE.
Google Scholar
Access to Google Scholar with Penn-only links to full-text articles. Once authenticated through Penn's proxy, full-text articles to which Penn Libraries subscribe will become available within the Google Scholar search results.

Movies

Search Franklin, our catalog, for movies available in streaming format or DVD.

T his link will generate a list of DVDs by most recent publication date. To check out a DVD, note the location. If it is available at the Van Pelt - Video Collection, note the DVD number and request it at the Van Pelt Circulation Desk.

Streaming videos can be found through a catalog search for online videos. This link will generate a list, excluding our biomedical videos.

Streaming Collections

Academic Video Online (AVON)
Large, wide-ranging collection of feature film, documentaries, news footage, historical newsreels, and a range of primary source content. Includes film from the Criterion Collection, PBS, BBC, and Academy, Emmy, Peabody award winners, as well as silent films, serials, and early cinema shorts, including Buster Keaton, Fritz Lang, Chaplin, Murnau, and Lubitsch.
Film Platform
"Film Platform... showcases meaningful documentaries of social, political and cultural importance by some of the world's top international filmmakers. Its growing catalog combines in-depth stories with out-of-the-box storytelling on a broad range of topics, sometimes accompanied by a selection of study guides, press kits, and interviews with filmmakers and subjects." -- from resource overview

Independent World Cinema: Classic and Contemporary Film
This is a collection from indie film distributors—Milestone, Zeitgeist, Pragda, and Oscilloscope. These films support disciplines such as cultural history, psychology, gender studies, anthropology, African-American studies, and more.

Kanopy
Streaming collection of films and documentaries covering many subjects: pop culture, social policy, politics, education, and gender studies.
Swank Digital Campus
Selected streaming full-length feature films and documentaries.
Swank Digital Campus Resident Select (via Penn Video Network)
Selected streaming full-length feature films, licensed for on-campus viewing only. Line-up changes monthly, and films do not appear in Franklin, Penn Libraries Catalog. Note: After a brief licensing redirect, you will see movie choices. You can only use Resident Select while you're on Penn's campus, using a Penn IP address.

More info: http://www.upenn.edu/video/mc.html
New World Cinema: Independent Features & Shorts, 1990-Present
Full-length feature films and award-winning shorts from leading independent distributors.
Russian Film Hub
Russian and Soviet movies with English subtitles. Users can filter by genre, decade, director, and more. Created by Penn alumnus Richard Wess C'16.
Ethnographic Video Online
Classic ethnographic films, films about cultural change over time, and films made by and for indigenous communities. Browse by geography or cultural groups. Some films include study guides.
Artfilms-Digital
Artfilms-Digital is the video streaming service of Contemporary Arts Media, Australia, including works for arts education and artists that are relevant to the performing arts, music, electronic media, visual arts, photography, fashion, philosophy, religion, gastronomy, history, politics, and psychology.
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI): Streaming Art Films
DIS.art
Streaming art film platform (formerly a magazine) focusing on studio art, historic preservation and art history
Netflix Media Center
Educational documentaries available for course use
Films on Demand
Selected streaming films from Films Media Group.

Independent Documentary Filmmakers from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan Web Archive
Independent documentary and ephemeral primary sources archives which includes websites, blogs, and video feed belonging to notable filmmakers from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, all made available for future research and access. Chinese independent filmmakers from mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong have long been crucial to bringing attention to social and political developments in their areas, but due to the sensitive nature of their work, their web presences are at risk of disappearing. This project, part of the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation's Web Collecting Program, is an initiative of the Confederation's Collection Development Group.

Socialism on Film
Collection of documentary, newsreel and feature films reveals the world as seen by Soviet, Chinese, Vietnamese, East European, and Latin American filmmakers, from the early 20th century to the 1980s.
March of Time, 1935-1967
Newsreel and television series which ran in U.S. movie theaters until 1951 and on television until 1967, blending confrontational journalism and docudrama
USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive
Digital library of video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust.
On the Boards TV
OntheBoards.tv delivers full-length, high-quality contemporary performance films.

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