Databases and Journal Articles

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Applied Science & Technology Full Text (H.W. Wilson) External This link opens in a new window
Applied Science & Technology Full Text provides abstracts and indexing for over 750 of the leading periodicals in science and technology. Contains information on management, careers and employment, and financial trends in the scientific and technological fields. Also indexes interviews, meetings, conferences, exhibitions, product reviews, buyers' guides, directories, and conference proceedings. Indexing (1983- ), Abstracting (1993- ), select Full Text (1997- ).
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Applied Science and Business Retrospective External This link opens in a new window
Provides a single resource for seven decades of articles on the most important events, issues and trends in the history of business and industry (including the complete file of Industrial Arts Index (1913-1957), plus the most important historical sources in the applied science and technology field for the 20th century. It provides cover-to-cover indexing for more than 2,000 periodicals that include more than 4.5 million articles. It is an excellent resource for tracking down important studies, exploring historical controversies, finding papers by innovators, researching the development of a particular technology, and more.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index External This link opens in a new window
A multi-disciplinary database covering 1,470 of the most important journals in the humanities and arts fields, worldwide. It also picks up, selectively, articles from the Social Sciences Index and the Sciences Citation Index insofar as they have humanities content. You can do keyword searches (all foreign citations are translated into English), citation searches (telling you where a given source has been cited by a subsequent journal article), and related record searches (telling you which articles have footnotes in common with your starting-point article). The database also enables you to zero in immediately on state-of-the-art literature review articles.
Communication & Mass Media Complete External This link opens in a new window
Communication & Mass Media Complete provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 620 journals, selected coverage of nearly 200 journals, and full text for over 500 journals in communication & mass media. Includes over 5,400 author profiles. Incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State). CMMC contains a sophisticated Communication Thesaurus and comprehensive reference browsing (searchable cited references for peer-reviewed journals covered as core ).
Humanities Full Text External This link opens in a new window
Humanities Full Text covers over 465 sources in archaeology, food, philosophy, art, journalism, religion, classics, linguistics, space, film, music, world history, folklore, performing arts, and world literature.
IEEE Xplore Digital Library External This link opens in a new window
IEEE Xplore provides Web access to more than 4-million full-text documents from some of the world's most highly cited publications in electrical engineering, computer science and electronics.

The following citations are included as examples of articles on the topic—they also demonstrate the wide range of approaches to the subject of opera and media technology.

Armatage, Kay. Cinematic Operatics: Barbara Willis Sweete Directs Metropolitan Opera HD Transmissions. University of Toronto Quarterly, Fall 2012, Vol. 81 Issue 4, p 909-927.
Heyer, Paul. Live from the Met: Digital Broadcast Cinema, Medium Theory, and Opera for the Masses. Canadian Journal of Communication,2008, Vol. 33 Issue 4, p591-604. 14p.
Kennicott, Philip. Future Perfect.Opera News, Aug. 2012, vol. 77, issue 2, p. 12-13.
Kumagai, Jean. Mark Schubin: Nights at the Opera. IEEE Spectrum; February 2008, Vol. 45 Issue 2, p43-44, 2p
McPherson, Jim. Before the Met: The Pioneer Days of Radio Opera.Opera Quarterly,,v. 16, nos. 1-3, 2000.
Scott, Lee. Creating opera for mobile media: artistic opportunities and technical limitations. 2017 14th International Symposium on Pervasive Systems, Algorithms and Networks & 2017 11th International Conference on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology & 2017 Third International Symposium of Creative Computing (ISPAN-FCST-ISCC)
Schubin, Mark. What’s Opera? Selling Out Cinemas Worldwide with HD. Videography, v. 32, no. 1, April 2007: 12-20.
Wakin, Daniel. Live from the Met, Puccini with extra punch. New york Times, 9/26/2006, vol. 156, B1-B4.
Wedel, Michael. Messter’s ‘Silent’ Heirs: Sync Systems of the German Music Film 1914- 1929. Film history, v. 11, no. 4, 1999: 464-476.

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