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

Popular Publications

WWD.com

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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

Kanopy
Streaming collection of films and documentaries covering many subjects: pop culture, social policy, politics, education, and gender studies. You can access films on Kanopy on your mobile devices and smart TV through the Kanopy app.

Criterion Collection on Kanopy
Stream acclaimed and historic films from the Criterion Collection on Kanopy. Note: this is a subset of the Criterion Collection, not the full catalog of the streaming service The Criterion Channel. Here you will find access to 500+ films, but due to streaming licensing, not all Criterion Collection films are available.

Swank Digital Campus
Selected streaming full-length feature films and documentaries.
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. Also includes documentary and international films from Film Platform.
Projectr EDU
Streaming platform for independent, international, and documentary films from Grasshopper Film, Canyon Cinema, and MTV Documentary Films.
Docuseek
Documentary films from Bullfrog Films, Icarus Films, Good Docs, Women Make Movies, Collective Eye, Fanlight, dGenerate, and Kartemquin films.

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.

New World Cinema: Independent Features & Shorts, 1990-Present
Full-length feature films and award-winning shorts from leading independent distributors.
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.
Penn Video Network - PVN Movie Service
Selected streaming full-length feature films from Resident Select or Criterion on Demand, licensed for on-campus viewing only by Penn Video Network, a unit of Penn ISC. Line-up changes monthly. These films do not appear in Franklin, the Penn Libraries catalog. Note: You can only use PVN Movie Service while on the Penn campus, using a Penn IP address. PVN Movie Service films may change monthly, while streaming films on other platforms through the Penn Libraries remain available for a full calendar year, multiple years, or in some cases, do not expire after activation.
Films on Demand
Selected streaming films from Films Media Group.
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.
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI): Streaming Art Films
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.
Digital Theatre Plus
A digital video collection of British theatre productions containing full-length films of Shakespearean plays, modern dramas, and musicals, as well as behind the scenes insights.
Met Opera on demand
Access to more than 700 full-length Met performances.
Netflix Media Center
Educational documentaries available for course use

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.

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.
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.
DIS.art
Streaming art film platform (formerly a magazine) focusing on studio art, historic preservation and art history
On the Boards TV
OntheBoards.tv delivers full-length, high-quality contemporary performance films.

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