ProQuest Film, Music & Performing Arts Package
Agenda
 ProQuest Film Music & Performing Arts
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Value
Interdisciplinary content
Quality
Applications
 Package Components
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International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text
International Index to the Performing Arts Full Text
American Film Institute Catalog
Film Index International
FIAF Plus FT
RILM (optional add-on)
 Pricing & FAQs
ProQuest Film Music &Performing
Arts Package
Film Music & Performing Arts
American
Film Index
Film Institute International
Catalog
FIAF Plus
Full Text
International International
Index to the
Index to
Performing
Music
Arts (IIPA)
Periodicals
Index and (IIMP) Index
Full Text
and Full Text
RILM
(optional
add on)
ProQuest Film Music & Performing
Arts Package. Value.
 Superb package pricing for
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5 specialist databases
300+ FT titles
800+ journals covered
170,000 film records
735,000 film personalities
1.6M + article records (additional 500K
records in RILM as an add on)
 Complete coverage of film, music and
performing arts
 Scholarly titles, with trade, professional,
vocational and consumer coverage
Interdisciplinary coverage
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Arts Industry
Ballet
Circus Performance
Cinema
Composition
Dance
Drama
Entertainment
Ethnomusicology
Film
Film Studies
Flamenco
Folklore
Hip Hop
Jazz
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Magic
Media Studies
Music Education
Musical Theatre
Opera
Pantomime
Performance
Popular Music
Puppetry
Radio
Stagecraft
Swing
Television
Theater
Theory
Quality. Prestigious Partners.
British Film Institute
American Film Institute
International Federation of Film
Archives
RILM (optional add on)
Applications. Examples.
Broad coverage appeals to
scholars, practitioners,
undergraduates doing
academic study, public
library patrons
Direct users to authoritative
scholarly resources on film,
no unreliable free web
content
Keep up-to-date with recent
scholarship
See what has already been
published in a specific area
Find articles on artists,
artistic movements or
specific works
Access technical
information on vocational
courses (e.g. sound
engineering)
Journal references in AFI
and FII do not duplicate
FIAF Index: they include
trade newspapers and
journals, TV and popular
magazines, and non-serial
content
Meet needs of different
departments: Film and TV
Studies,
Communication/Media
Studies, American Studies,
French Studies, English
Studies etc
Link out to JSTOR, MUSE,
Naxos content plus other
resources
Applications. Examples.
Prepare an extensive
bibliography on a given topic
Finding aid to the library’s print
holdings
Students at performing arts
schools can find articles on
instrumental practice, instrument
manufacture, new product
reviews, the music business,
lighting and make-up, music
therapy, education, composition,
editing etc
Find definitions of musical terms
and synopses of operas using
the IIMP Reference content
Access hard to find information
on rare content such as silent
film and documentaries - not
covered by free resources
Historical research in cinema
(e.g. detailed records for each
year’s Top Ten AFI films)
Uncover difficult to locate articles
using the lengthy journal
backfiles
Meet curriculum needs: AFI Top
Ten films cover frequentlystudied films
Read about directors and
contrast different approaches to
themes, topics and technology,
using FIAF’s scholarly content
American Film Institute Catalog
(AFI)
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The most comprehensive
American filmography available
online that documents American
feature films from 1893 through
1975
Expanding coverage, with
indexing for selected films 1975present
Compiled by specialist researches
at the American Film Institute
(AFI)
Includes influential top 10 and top
100 lists
Provides detail on every featurelength film produced in America or
financed by American companies
Film Index International (FII)
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The most authoritative
international film database
focusing on entertainment
films and personalities
Produced in collaboration
with the British Film Institute
(BFI)
Films from over 180
countries are included,
produced from 1900 to
current
FIAF Index to Film Periodicals Plus
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Coverage of hundreds of the
world's foremost academic
film journals from 1972 to the
present day
Key titles in full text
Bibliographical contributions
from experts around the
world dedicated to film
preservation, cataloguing
and documentation
Full-text journals range from
the scholarly (Film
Comment, Framework) to
the popular (Variety, Sight &
Sound)
International Index to Music
Periodicals Full Text
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Indexes 450+ titles from 25
countries
130+ full-text titles
Covers all types of music
(e.g. blues, rock, jazz, pop,
world music, and classical),
as well as the music
business, music therapy,
education, theory,
performance, and
composition
Scholarly, vocational, trade
and professional titles
covered
International Index to the
Performing Arts Full Text
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Over 270 performing arts
journals published in almost
20 countries and more than
10 languages
100 full-text titles
Comprehensive coverage of
journal literature on
performing arts
Covers dance, film, drama,
theatre, stagecraft, musical
theatre, performance art,
storytelling, opera,
pantomime, puppetry, magic
and more
Répertoire International de
Littérature Musicale (RILM)
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Includes articles, books,
bibliographies, catalogues,
dissertations, Festschriften,
iconographies, critical
commentaries to complete
works, ethnographic recordings,
conference proceedings,
electronic resources, reviews,
etc
Produced by 60 national
committees located in Europe,
Asia, Africa, and North and
South America
Covers all music disciplines with
a focus on academic
publications and classical music
FAQ. Pricing. Overlaps. Platform.
Pricing
• Package pricing
includes FII, AFI,
FIAF Plus, IIMP
FT, IIPA FT
• RILM available as
an add on
Database Overlap
Platform
• FII and AFI index
films, not journals
• Selective coverage
of some
publications
means databases
index entirely
different sets of
articles from the
same publication
• Subject specific
vocabulary
• IIMP, IIPA, RILM
on new ProQuest
platform
• FII, AFI, FIAF to
migrate to the new
platform
• Access film studies
via PQ Extended
search connectors
in 2011
• Coming soon!
RISM as extended
search connector
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