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General News, Informational, and Educational Websites

Smithsonian Magazine
Smithsonian magazine places a Smithsonian lens on the world, looking at the topics and subject matters researched, studied, and exhibited by the Smithsonian Institution—science, history, art, popular culture, and innovation—and chronicling them every day for our diverse readership.
Getty Resources
Getty is a cultural and philanthropic institution dedicated to the presentation, conservation, and interpretation of the world’s artistic legacy. Get FREE tools and support for work and study in art and cultural heritage.

Informative & Free Resources Websites

These curated and educational websites contain a lot of FREE content in many different subject areas. Visit these recommended websites to view and download free courses, audiobooks, ebooks, movies & more!

Open Culture
Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community. It’s all free. It’s all enriching.
Future Learn
Learn online with world-class universities and industry experts and develop your career, learn a new skill, or pursue your hobbies. *Access to a course is free for a limited amount of duration. You can upgrade your experience and get additional course work or get unlimited access to all courses on Future Learn for a price per year.

Learning Courses

LinkedIn Learning
Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Future Learn
Learn online with world-class universities and industry experts and develop your career, learn a new skill, or pursue your hobbies. *Access to a course is FREE for a limited amount of duration. You can upgrade your experience and get additional course work or get unlimited access to all courses on Future Learn for a price per year.
Standford Online
Stanford Online offers a limited amount of FREE online courses that provide you with an affordable and flexible way to learn new skills and study new and emerging topics. Though not all courses are available, several online courses require payment.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy is a nonprofit. Learn for FREE about math, art, computer programming, economics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, finance, history, and more. Free for learners and educators!
Coursera
Access a limited amount of FREE online courses from top universities like Yale, Michigan, and Stanford. Courses include recorded auto-graded and peer-reviewed assignments, video lectures, and community discussion forums. When you complete a course, you’ll be eligible to receive a shareable electronic Course Certificate for a small fee. Several courses require payment.
Udemy
Access a limited amount of FREE courses from Udemy to help you make the most of your time, from working at home to trending technical skills and self-improvement, wherever you are. Though several courses require you to sign up for a set price.
Codecademy
Codecademy offers courses to make learning to code and designing websites fun and easy. All the classes are FREE, though a new paid plan offers additional learning tools and live support.
TED Ed
To support the millions of students, parents, and teachers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, TED-Ed is working with expert educators and TED speakers throughout the world to create and share high-quality, interactive, video-based lessons on a daily basis, for FREE.
Quizlet
Quizlet is a FREE app (that makes money from advertising and paid subscriptions for additional features) for making flashcards and online quizzes, which can be used privately or shared publicly.
Wolfram Alpha
A FREE computational knowledge engine that generates output by doing computations, for personal noncommercial use. Access to enhanced features and ad-free site use is available through a subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro.
Chegg Prep
Chegg Prep a FREE powerful self-study tool you can use to discover, create, and share flashcards.

Writing & Grammar Resources

Enhance your writing with these helpful free to low costing resources!

Open Culture - Online Writing & Journalism Courses
This site includes a lot of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). If you want to enroll in a free version of a MOOC, please select the “Full Course, No Certificate” (edX) or “Audit” (Coursera) option. If you opt to take the course for a certificate/credential, you will be charged.
Grammarly
The free version of Grammarly checks spelling and grammar. You can upgrade to Pro for a price per month, quarter, or year.
Purdue OWL: Online Writing Lab
The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, and provide these as a FREE service.
The Elements of Style eBook
This classic reference book is a must-have for any student and conscientious writer. Intended for use in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature, it gives in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style and concentrates attention on the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated.

Screenplays & Treatments Resources

Alexander Street Press Film Scripts Online
Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
BBC Script Library
The BBC is the world’s leading public service broadcaster. Read BBC TV, Radio, and Film scripts for FREE!
Daily Script
A collection of movie scripts and screenplays to serve as a resource for writers and actors and those who simply enjoy reading movie scripts.
Drew’s Script-o-Rama
The titular Drew has been sharing scripts with curious readers and writers for almost two decades now and has a vast library from which to choose from. A great benefit of Script-O-Rama is that it holds several drafts of certain movies, an invaluable resource for those who want to see how a Hollywood film evolves in the writing process.
Go Into The Story Screenplays
100+ scripts made available for FREE by studios and production companies.
IMSDB – Internet Movie Screenplay Database
IMDB has proven a valuable resource for researching movie crews, casts, and trivia. IMSDB is just as useful for those looking for screenplays of all kinds and genres for FREE.
Movie Scripts and Screenplays
A bunch of Movie Scripts and Screenplays on the 'net in one location for FREE.
The Screenplay Database
All screenplays are uploaded and can be downloaded for FREE for Educational purposes only and no copyright infringement is intended.
Screenplays for You
A famous collection of FREE movie scripts and screenplays!
Script City
Script City sells screenplays that have been produced. They do not sell scripts in development. The scripts are all photocopies of the original draft they have in stock. All of these screenplays are for educational purposes only. No rights are given or implied.
Simply Scriptts
A database of hundreds of FREE downloadable scripts, movie scripts, screenplays, and transcripts of current, classic, and maybe a few soon-to-be-released movies, television, anime, unproduced, and radio shows.
The TV Calling Script Library
You will find here a lot of TV scripts, and occasionally a few pitches, outlines, and bibles (not the religious kind), for FREE.
TV Writing
This site will have plenty of TV screenplays for FREE.

Screenwriting Blogs

Alex Epstein Blogspot
Alex Epstein is a narrative director for games, a writer for television and movies, a voice director, and an author. Read his Blog, Complications Ensue: The Crafty Game, TV, and Screenwriting Blog.
Danny Stack Blog
Danny Stack is a writer and director specializing in the kids/family genre. Read his Blog for insights.
Gideon's Screenwriting Tips: Now You're a Screenwriter
Blog about Screenwriting tips to help you write better.
Go Into The Story by Scott Myers Blog
The Official Screenwriting Blog of the Black List. Named "Best of the Best" Scriptwriting Website by Writer's Digest
Industrial Scripts
A script consultancy by people with significant track records in development and legitimate industry connections, delivering the deepest and best script notes.
The JoBlo Movie Network
The JoBlo Movie Network features the latest movie trailers, posters, previews & interviews all in one place! Updated daily with the latest news from Hollywood!
Ken Levine Blogspot
Kenneth Levine is an American writer, director, and producer in the television and film industry, and an author. His Blog site was named one of the BEST 25 BLOGS by TIME Magazine.
LA Screenwriter
The goal of LA Screenwriter is to bring the best screenwriting tools, resources, and advice together into one place so that established and novice writers alike can continue to improve their craft.
My Blank Page Blog
Script Magazine's pick for "Website of the Week"
ScreenCraft
ScreenCraft’s mission is to foster the careers of emerging writers and filmmakers by providing inspiration and insight into the craft of screenwriting and the business of Hollywood, and by connecting emerging talent with working industry professionals.
Screenwriting from Iowa Blog
This blog serves mainly as a conduit for notes and quotes gathered from top screenwriters and directors—and storytellers in general—with the hope that they will give a sense of direction to those wanting to write screenplays, make movies, and create content—especially those in unusual places.
The Screenwriting Spark
Do you want to write screenplays? The Screenwriting Spark was created to help inspire the aspiring. Here you’ll find hundreds of websites, blogs, tips, resources & videos created by passionate screenwriters like you.
Script Angel - The Writers' Hub
Insider advice, support, analysis and tools to help you elevate your screenwriting craft, develop your voice and navigate your screenwriting career.
The Script Lab
The Script Lab delivering weekly content of interviews and discussions with writers, filmmakers, and film school educators.
Script Mag
With inside information, articles written by working writers and filmmakers, and in-depth interviews, Script is the resource on every scriptwriter’s must-read list.
Script Reader Pro Resources
Script Reader Pro is based on helping screenwriters live the life they want and need to live—the creative life.
Script Shadow
A site reviewing the latest scripts in Hollywood.
The Story Department
To empower creative writers worldwide, by curating information and sharing experience.

Book Resources

EBSCO eBooks
Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Hoopla Digital: eBooks & Audiobooks
Instantly borrow digital books and audiobooks 24/7 with a library card. You are required to have a Public Library Card from your public library in order to access this free resource.
Viz: Manga
Stream FREE Manga favorites.
International Children's Digital Library Foundation
ICDL Foundation provides a digital library of outstanding children's books from around the world. Access hundreds of FREE children's books.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 FREE eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them.
Overdrive
Borrow and read free ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines for FREE from your library using your phone or tablet. Must obtain a Public Library Card from your local library.
Bartleby.com: Reference Books
Bartleby.com provides free Web access to a comprehensive collection of reference, verse, fiction, and nonfiction works.
HathiTrust Digital Library
HathiTrust Digital Library preserves and provides lawful access to the 17+ million digitized items for FREE. The Emergency Temporary Access Service permits temporary, emergency access to the collection for member libraries during service disruptions caused by the glocal pandemic.
The Los Angeles Public Library
The LAPL provides free online resources, including eBooks to users of the public library. Become a member of the LAPL. Students can sign-up via e-Card Registration (for Los Angeles Residents) and get instant access to free online resources. *** Online students that are not located in LA region, check with your local public library for the same or similar services.

Streaming Video Resources

Stream available digital movies, tv shows, and such clips here!

Crackle
It's an entirely FREE streaming video service that is fully supported by video ads that run before and in the middle of content.
The CW TV
No subscription needed, just FREE. At present, The CW only provides access to the last 5 episodes for free, as it did on Hulu.
Hoopla Digital: Movies & TV Shows
Instantly borrow digital movies and television shows 24/7 with a library card. You are required to have a Public Library Card from your public library in order to access this free resource.
iFlix
The all new iflix FREE service, makes many of iflix's most popular and exclusive programs and features available to users in Philippines completely for free.
IMDb TV
IMDb TV is a free, ad-supported streaming video channel available in the United States on the IMDb app, the IMDb website, the Amazon Prime Video app, and Amazon Fire TV devices.
Internet Archive: Moving Image Archive
Download or listen to free movies, films, and videos. Many of these videos are available for free download.
Kanopy
Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
LinkedIn Learning
Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Open Culture: Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns, etc.
Watch movies free online.
Plex TV
Watch Live TV for FREE. The 'Movies & TV' streaming service is free to all users and ad-supported. To start watching Plex Live TV free, you'll first need to set up a Plex Media Server on a compatible device
Pluto TV
Pluto TV is a FREE live-stream television and on-demand video service. It has more than 250 unique live channels that stream content - with commercial breaks - at no charge to the consumer. There also are on-demand selections.
Popcorn Flix
Popcornflix is a free on-demand streaming service that offers movies and TV episodes without the hassle of a monthly subscription. In exchange for the free content, Popcornflix inserts ads into the viewing experience.
The Roku Channel
Hundreds of Roku channels are FREE including YouTube, Pandora, PBS, PBS Kids, Hasbro, Crackle, VEVO, CrunchyRoll, Baeble, Popcornflix, Smithsonian, and much more! There are no monthly fees for watching free channels or for using a Roku device.
Swank Digital Campus
Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Tubi
Tubi is a legal streaming service that is entirely FREE. The Tubi app is free to install, and all of the content is always free to watch.
Vimeo
Upload videos from anywhere, and access them whether you're at home, or on the go. Download the app for free to start watching incredible videos from the Vimeo community, and sharing some of your own.
Viz: Anime
Stream FREE Anime favorites.
Vudu
Watch thousands of full-length movies and TV shows for FREE with limited ads. No subscriptions. You can also create an account to buy, rent, or create your very own media library with purchased digital films.
YouTube: Movies & Shows
Watch movies with ads for Free! Also, Buy or Rent options are available for certain movies.
National Film Board of Canada
Watch quality Canadian documentary, animation, and fiction films for FREE online.
UbuWeb Film & Video
UbuWeb is a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts for FREE.

Leisure & Sports Entertainment

International Journal of Sport Management, Recreation & Tourism
All articles published in IJSMaRT are peer-reviewed and upon acceptance will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download

Organizational Tools and Resources

Habitica: Gamified Taskmanager
Habitica is a FREE habit and productivity app that treats your real life like a game. Habitica can help you achieve your goals to become healthy and happy. You can also download the app on your Android or iOS through the App Store.
Google Workspace
Get video, chat, email, files, tasks, and access to tools & apps all in one place. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.

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Formerly known as Google G Suite
Microsoft Office for Students
Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access and download the Microsoft Office products.

Dictionary & Encyclopedia Websites

Wikipedia
Wikipedia is FREE content that anyone can edit, use, modify, and distribute. Since all your contributions are freely licensed to the public, no editor owns any article; all of your contributions can and will be mercilessly edited and redistributed.

Job Websites

Indeed
An American worldwide employment-related search engine for job listings. Posting a job on Indeed is FREE or you can choose to promote your job as a Sponsored Job to make the right hire faster.

Audio Resources

BBC Sound Effects
These sound effects are made available by the BBC in WAV format to download for use under the terms of the RemArc Licence. The Sound Effects are BBC copyright, but they may be used for personal, educational, or research purposes, as detailed in the license.
For commercial use, you can license sound effects.
ProSound Effects Off-Campus
PSE develops highly curated sound effects libraries for sound artists, editors, designers, audio engineers, media companies, schools, and nonprofits. * Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.

Download royalty-free music beats and audio effects for your projects! Some tunes may require you to credit the source.

Music Resources

Hit Songs Deconstructed
Source for Hit Songwriting Analysis and Trends. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.

Learn more about the music industry, get insights from your favorite artists.

Streaming Music Resources

Spotify
Free with ads. Upgrade to Premium for a price per month.
Hoopla Digital: Music
Instantly borrow and stream digital music 24/7 with a library card. You are required to have a Public Library Card from your public library in order to access this free resource.

Art Collections

Google Arts & Culture
A free online platform through which the public can view high-resolution images and videos of artworks and cultural artifacts from partner cultural organizations throughout the world.

Stock Images

The Stocks
Stunning FREE images & royalty-free stock images (for the most part)! All contents are released under the Pixabay License, which makes them safe to use without asking for permission or giving credit to the artist - even for commercial purposes.

Design & Visual Media Tools

Create designs for all your posts, flyers, and visual needs!

Adobe Spark
Adobe Spark is an integrated suite of media creation applications for mobile and web developed by Adobe Systems. Use Adobe's powerful editing and creation software for FREE — without resorting to piracy. While Spark remains free to use, Adobe has added a paid feature to help small businesses create branded media content.
Canva
Free to use! Upgrade to Pro for a price per month//year for more features.
Easil
Easil is the drag-and-drop design tool that
empowers your whole team to create visual
content. It's FREE to get started, but you can purchase a subscription to access some features.
GIMP
GNU Image Manipulation Program, or GIMP, (alternative to Adobe Photoshop), is a FREE & open source image editor available for GNU/Linux, OS X, Windows, and more operating systems.
Giphy
FREE To Use GIFs! You can also upload or create your own GIFs.
Scribus
Scribus (alternative to Adobe Indesign) is FREE and open-source desktop publishing software available for most desktop operating systems. It is designed for the layout, typesetting, and preparation of files for professional-quality image-setting equipment. Scribus can also create animated and interactive PDF presentations and forms.

Get Inspired

Here are inspiring visual design tools that will get your creative mojo flowing!

MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS

Informational Websites on Media Communications

Read daily news and insights regarding the subject of Media Communications. This includes Blogs, Magazines, Forums, and Informative Websites that will be handy throughout your school experience at LAFS.

INFORMATIVE WEBSITES

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
The preeminent resource for excellence in motion picture arts. It is free to look through their website.
All Movie
All Movie is an in-depth, comprehensive resource for finding out more about movies, actors, and filmmakers.
American Film Institute
The American Film Institute's mission is to preserve the heritage of the motion picture. It is a non-profit art education organization. There is plenty of free content to look through, but most of their articles and blogs are behind a paywall and membership - a minimum of $40.
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Anatomy of a Scene
From The New York Times. In this series, directors discuss ideas and techniques behind scenes in their films. The New York Times is currently free to watch and read their articles but membership is available for even more content.
British Academy of Film and Television Arts
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is an independent charity that supports, develops and promotes the art forms of the moving image by identifying and rewarding excellence, inspiring practitioners and benefiting the public. While there are some articles that are available for free, one has to be apart of the film and television industry and have to be working for a period of time before one can get a membership. It is the UK's version of SAG-AFTRA.
Casting Networks
Casting Networks, LLC is the leading provider of casting and audition management software to the casting industry. Casting directors and agents worldwide use Casting Networks to source and manage talent across film, television, digital, and commercials projects facilitating over a million auditions per year. Headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in New York, London, and Sydney. Creating a casting account is free and gives you access to all sorts of information and articles useful to you during your entertainment journey.
Envato Market - Audio Jungle
Royalty free music and audio tracks from $1.
Discover more than 1,420,617 tracks and sounds from our community of musicians and sound engineers.
Envato Market - Photo Dune
Discover millions of royalty-free stock photos. Unique stock photos for every budget and every project. Very low budget and nearly free.
Envato Market - Video Hive
Royalty-free videos and templates created by video professionals from all over the world. Discover more than 1,834,060 Video effects and stock footage. Very low budget per effect/stock footage clip.
Film L.A For Outside Production
Each year, thousands of visitors to Los Angeles take tours of studio backlots to see where their favorite movies and TV shows are filmed. Many of those visitors, and locals alike, may not realize that much of the region’s film production takes place not on a sound-stage, but rather in one of L.A.’s many diverse neighborhoods. Filming outside of a certified soundstage or studio backlot requires a permit from the city, county, and/or other local jurisdiction.
Film Sourcing
FILMMAKING RESOURCES Film production paperwork, movie poster templates, EPK templates, fake brands for a film. All original, hi-res and editable. 70 + files. Signing up is Free.
Free Music Archive
Your #1 resource for free music and royalty-free music. Support creators, reward creativity. All songs on FMA are free to access and download. There is also a premium content option for $5 a month.
Margaret Herrick Library Digital Collections
Currently, the database contains more than 6,500 items, including correspondence, photographs, early release fliers, full issues of rare periodicals, sheet music, lobby cards and movie star ephemera. The database also includes complete copies of more than 450 Academy publications, dating back to the founding of the organization in 1927. Free for anyone to use.
Internet Movie Database
An online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games, and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. You can use for free, but premium content requires membership and subscription.
Internet Movie Script Database
The database contains hundreds of scripts for movies. Searchable by title, alphabetical listing, and by genre. Free to use.
Mazwai Free Movie Clips
Stunning free stock footage clips, hand-picked by our in-house team of video professionals. Simple licensing and no sign-up required.
Official California Film Website
The California Film Commission (CFC) enhances California’s status as the leader in motion picture, television, and commercial production. A one-stop office for filmmakers, we support productions of all sizes and budgets with location assistance and our extensive digital location library, free online permitting, low-cost use of state properties as shooting locations, and production assistance. We also administer the state’s Film & Television Tax Credit Program and serve as primary liaison between productions and all levels of government to eliminate barriers to filming.

MAGAZINES

Flipster Magazines (EBSCOhost)
Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Backstage
For over 50 years, Backstage has served as the #1 resource for performers to find work while helping talent-seekers move their projects forward. Our 100,000+ members represent a powerful network of entertainment professionals who leverage our unlimited submissions, best-in-class casting tools, and more performance roles than any other casting service. You can join for free, but the membership for a year and the magazine subscription is $150, but they have deals constantly to lower that price.
Hits Dailey Double
The Hollywood Reporter
Variety
Entertainment Business
ESPN
People
Sports Illustrated
Wired

FORUMS / BLOGS

Detonation Films Directory of Effects Footage
If you need footage of special effects – think explosions, dust and smoke clouds, bullet hits and blood splatter – then Detonation Films Stock is for you.
Documentary Films.Net
This site provides documentary film information and resources to both viewers and filmmakers. Reviews, festivals, filmmaker resources. It's completely free and the forum has a great discussion about documentary filming and movies alike.
Film Freeway
The world’s #1 way to enter film festivals and screenplay contests. Free to sign up and most festivals are free to enter.
Internet Encyclopedia of Cinematographers
Biographies and filmographies of international cinematographers. Free for anyone to read.
Movie Locations Guide
The ultimate travel guide to film locations around the world. Here you can find original location photographs, trivia, links, and travel details. completely free to browse and read.
New York Film Academy Tips
The New York Film Academy was founded by veteran producer Jerry Sherlock in 1992, who produced such classics as "The Hunt for the Red October". Encouraged by friends of his who wanted to send their children to film school, but found the prices too costly, Sherlock designed a school that was not only affordable but more importantly, was founded on the principle of learning by doing. The site is free to browse the articles.

Published Journals & Other Informative Databases on Media Communications

A Database is a searchable collection of information. You may find databases that the Library is subscribed to, which you will need to access them with your LAFS username and password. Other databases or informational sites listed are public and can be used as open-sourced. Find related and useful material on Media Communications here!

Academic Search Elite (EBSCOhost)
Designed to meet every academic researcher's needs, Academic Search Elite provides access to acclaimed full-text scholarly journals and magazines. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Business Source Elite (EBSCOhost)
This database provides full-text coverage of top business, management and economics journals and periodicals. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Directory of Open Access Journals
DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals. Access for FREE here!
ERIC (EBSCOhost)
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is an online digital library of education research and information. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Film & Television Literature Index (EBSCOhost)
Film & Television Literature Index is a database of all types of writing on film and television, including academic journals, industry and trade papers, news journalism, and popular magazines. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
HathiTrust Digital Library
HathiTrust Digital Library is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries including content digitized via Google Books and the Internet Archive digitization initiatives, as well as content digitized locally by libraries. FREE open access to journals, books, and other digitized Items that are readily available here!
Henry Stewart Marketing Journals Collection
HS Talks offers access to peer-reviewed vocational journals containing articles and case studies suitable for inclusion in courses, to support projects, and to enhance employability and preparation for the world of work. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Hit Songs Deconstructed
Hit Songs Deconstructed provides creatives and music industry professionals with powerful interactive tools, data, and analysis to support their creative process, stay in tune with how today’s hits are evolving, and make strategic songwriting, production, and business decisions. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
IMDb
IMDb is an online database of information related to films, television programs, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew, and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan & critical reviews. Free for non-commercial use. Upgrade to Pro for a price per month/year to get more features.
International Journal of Sport Management, Recreation & Tourism
IJSMaRT aims to present current practice and research in the area of sport management and marketing, recreation, and sports tourism. FREE open access journals available here.
Regional Business News (EBSCOhost)
Regional Business News provides full-text regional business publications for the United States and Canadian provinces. Users can search for newspapers, magazines, and other resources from trusted news sources. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Smithsonian Open Access
Download, share and reuse millions of the Smithsonian's images. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian's 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo. FREE open access journals available here.
Variety Insight
Variety Insight is the leading entertainment data solution that provides verified, timely, and accurate metadata around people, projects, and companies that work in the global entertainment business. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access. *Limit only 50 concurrent users at one time while using the platform.
International Music Score Library Project
A subscription-based project for the creation of a virtual library of public-domain music scores. Users can exchange musical ideas through the site, submit their own compositions, or listen to other people's compositions.

ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS

Informational Websites on Entertainment Business

Read daily news and insights regarding the subject of the Entertainment Business. This includes Blogs, Magazines, Forums, and Informative Websites that will be handy throughout your school experience at LAFS.

INFORMATIVE WEBSITES

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Pollstar
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MAGAZINES

Entertainment Weekly Business
A monthly entertainment magazine based in New York City, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books, and popular culture. Available in print for a subscription fee and Free online.
ESPN
Flipster Magazines (EBSCOhost)
Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Hits Dailey Double
The Hollywood Reporter
A digital and print magazine, and website, which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries. Available for free online.
People
Sports Illustrated
Variety
Wired

FORUMS / BLOGS

NationMaster
Statistics Blog (TBD)
IbisWorld
Great place for Statistics. very expensive. (tbd)
Harvard Business School
academic statistics for entertainment and media business. (tbd)

Published Journals & Other Informative Databases on Entertainment Business

Academic Search Elite (EBSCOhost)
Designed to meet every academic researcher's needs, Academic Search Elite provides access to acclaimed full-text scholarly journals and magazines. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Business Source Elite (EBSCOhost)
This database provides full-text coverage of top business, management, and economics journals and periodicals. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.bLog in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Directory of Open Access Journals
DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals. Access for FREE here!
ERIC (EBSCOhost)
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is an online digital library of education research and information. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Film & Television Literature Index (EBSCOhost)
Film & Television Literature Index is a database of all types of writing on film and television, including academic journals, industry and trade papers, news journalism, and popular magazines. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
HathiTrust Digital Library
HathiTrust Digital Library is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries including content digitized via Google Books and the Internet Archive digitization initiatives, as well as content digitized locally by libraries. FREE open access to journals, books, and other digitized Items that are readily available here!
Henry Stewart Marketing Journals Collection
HS Talks offers access to peer-reviewed vocational journals containing articles and case studies suitable for inclusion in courses, to support projects, and to enhance employability and preparation for the world of work. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Hit Songs Deconstructed
Hit Songs Deconstructed provides creatives and music industry professionals with powerful interactive tools, data, and analysis to support their creative process, stay in tune with how today’s hits are evolving, and make strategic songwriting, production, and business decisions. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
IMDb
IMDb is an online database of information related to films, television programs, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew, and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan & critical reviews. Free for non-commercial use. Upgrade to Pro for a price per month/year to get more features.
International Journal of Sport Management, Recreation & Tourism
IJSMaRT aims to present current practice and research in the area of sport management and marketing, recreation, and sports tourism. FREE open access journals available here.
Regional Business News (EBSCOhost)
Regional Business News provides full-text regional business publications for the United States and Canadian provinces. Users can search for newspapers, magazines, and other resources from trusted news sources. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Smithsonian Open Access
Download, share and reuse millions of the Smithsonian's images. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian's 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo. FREE open access journals available here.
Variety Insight
Variety Insight is the leading entertainment data solution that provides verified, timely, and accurate metadata around people, projects, and companies that work in the global entertainment business. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access. *Limit only 50 concurrent users at one time while using the platform.
International Music Score Library Project
A subscription-based project for the creation of a virtual library of public-domain music scores. Users can exchange musical ideas through the site, submit their own compositions, or listen to other people's compositions.

Entertainment Business (Paid)

Zoho
TBD
Wold Innovators
TBD
AIMP
TBD

ANIMATION & VISUAL EFFECTS

Informational Websites on Animation & Visual Effects

Read daily news and insights regarding the subject of Animation & Visual Effects. This includes Blogs, Magazines, Forums, and Informative Websites that will be handy throughout your school experience at LAFS.

INFORMATIVE WEBSITES

Animation World Network
A free website with Animation news from around the world, jobs, blogs and events.
Animator's Resource Kit
An animation website that allows ease of access to useful assets and resources such as links to forums, communities, competitions, rigs, tools and places to submit work. Some resources are free and some have links to purchase.
Canadian Animation Resources
Free resource website to animation jobs, news, and more with a Canadian focus.
Cartoon Brew
A comprehensive animation news site. Also has links to free trials to animation software such as Harmony20.
Concept Art Empire
A free animation website with links to free tutorials, resources and even rigs. Concept Art Empire is to share helpful tips, quality info, and valuable resources for artists who love entertainment art.
Curious Refuge
A animation website you can shop for lighting, textures and more resources.
Free Sound
A free collaborative database of audio samples that are free to use and remix.
Game Textures
Our simple idea was to build a massive library of beautiful materials – and have a team of the happiest artists we could possibly find. Free game textures section and there is also a shop section.
Lester Banks
Lester banks.com is meant as a Free daily resource for 3D Artists, Motion Designers, VFX Artists, and people who love their craft and love to share techniques and tips.
Ottawa International Animation Festival
A free website with information to register to one of the world's premier animation festivals.
Storyboard Blog
A website for subscription purchase to create dynamic and powerful media. With features that go beyond moving text and images, you can build character-driven stories or compelling data visualizations that engage audiences and deliver results.
Tuts Plus
A subscription purchase website that helps you learn creative skills and shape the life you want.
Woman in Animation
WIA is a free website and one of the only organization dedicated to advancing women in the field of animation. We envision a world where women share equally in the creation, production and rewards of animation, and we provide resources and connections to make it happen.
Webtoons Site/App
A new way to create stories and opened it up to anyone with a story to tell.We’re home to thousands of creator-owned content with amazing, diverse visions from all over the world.Get in on the latest original romance, comedy, action, fantasy, horror, and more from big names and big names to be - made just for WEBTOON.We’re available anywhere, anytime, and always for free.

MAGAZINES

Flipster Magazines (EBSCOhost)
Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Animation Magazine
CGW Magazine
Cinefex
Computer Graphics World (CGW)
Juxatpoz
Post
Skwigly Online Magazine
Skywigly
VFXWorld Magazine
Covering areas as diverse as animator profiles, independent film distribution, commercial studio activities, licensing, CGI and other animation technologies, as well as in-depth coverage of current events in all fields of animation, AWN gives its readers an easy to navigate, visually and intellectually creative mechanism to electronically access a wealth of information previously unavailable anywhere in the world.

FORUMS / BLOGS

NationMaster
Statistics website blog. (TBD)
Animation Nation
A free animation industry site with articles, forums, resource links, and more!
Edge of Frame
A free blog about experimental animation.
Keyframe
A free site that features over 1500 animation project profiles and thousands of user-submitted reviews.
Recipes for Disaster: A Handcrafted Film Cookbooklet
A free long-form zine will walk you through cameraless animation, handprocessing film, and other tasty treats.

Published Journals & Other Informative Databases on Animation & Visual Effects

Academic Search Elite (EBSCOhost)
Designed to meet every academic researcher's needs, Academic Search Elite provides access to acclaimed full-text scholarly journals and magazines. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Business Source Elite (EBSCOhost)
This database provides full-text coverage of top business, management, and economics journals and periodicals. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.bLog in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Directory of Open Access Journals
DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals. Access for FREE here!
ERIC (EBSCOhost)
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is an online digital library of education research and information. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Film & Television Literature Index (EBSCOhost)
Film & Television Literature Index is a database of all types of writing on film and television, including academic journals, industry and trade papers, news journalism, and popular magazines. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
HathiTrust Digital Library
HathiTrust Digital Library is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries including content digitized via Google Books and the Internet Archive digitization initiatives, as well as content digitized locally by libraries. FREE open access to journals, books, and other digitized Items that are readily available here!
Henry Stewart Marketing Journals Collection
HS Talks offers access to peer-reviewed vocational journals containing articles and case studies suitable for inclusion in courses, to support projects, and to enhance employability and preparation for the world of work. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Hit Songs Deconstructed
Hit Songs Deconstructed provides creatives and music industry professionals with powerful interactive tools, data, and analysis to support their creative process, stay in tune with how today’s hits are evolving, and make strategic songwriting, production, and business decisions. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
IMDb
IMDb is an online database of information related to films, television programs, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew, and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan & critical reviews. Free for non-commercial use. Upgrade to Pro for a price per month/year to get more features.
International Journal of Sport Management, Recreation & Tourism
IJSMaRT aims to present current practice and research in the area of sport management and marketing, recreation, and sports tourism. FREE open access journals available here.
Regional Business News (EBSCOhost)
Regional Business News provides full-text regional business publications for the United States and Canadian provinces. Users can search for newspapers, magazines, and other resources from trusted news sources. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Smithsonian Open Access
Download, share and reuse millions of the Smithsonian's images. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian's 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo. FREE open access journals available here.
Variety Insight
Variety Insight is the leading entertainment data solution that provides verified, timely, and accurate metadata around people, projects, and companies that work in the global entertainment business. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access. *Limit only 50 concurrent users at one time while using the platform.
International Music Score Library Project
A subscription-based project for the creation of a virtual library of public-domain music scores. Users can exchange musical ideas through the site, submit their own compositions, or listen to other people's compositions.

Animation Software Tools

OpenToonz
Opentoonz is most certainly an amazing FREE 2D animation suite if you want to get into REAL 2D (frame by frame) animation. It can be used free of charge for both commercial and non-commercial projects. Available as an open-source so that anyone can modify its source code freely.
Krita
Krita is a FREE and open-source raster graphics editor designed primarily for digital painting and 2D animation. It runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and Chrome OS.
DaVince Resolve
DaVinci Resolve is a color correction and non-linear video editing application for macOS, Windows, and Linux, originally developed by da Vinci Systems, and now developed by Blackmagic Design. You can download it from the official website for FREE.
Blender
Blender is the FREE and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, video editing and 2D animation pipeline.

https://www.oberlo.com/blog/free-animation-software

Animate.CSS
Compiled by Dan Eden, this library includes almost every CSS animation you could need, from the basics (bounce, fade in) to something more exciting (Jack in the Box, Jello).
These 77 animations are all created in CSS and ready to use for FREE. Simply reference the CSS file, and when you add classes to an element, the animation happens. This works best when adding or removing classes using JavaScript.
CSS3 Animation Cheat Sheets
This helpful project offers a set of preset, plug-and-play animations for you to use in your web projects for FREE. Just add the stylesheet to your website and apply the premade CSS classes to the elements you want to animate. This cheat sheet uses CSS3 keyframes, which means you don't need to worry about positioning the element to make room for the animations.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Informational Websites on Graphic Design

Read daily news and insights regarding the subject of Graphic Design. This includes Blogs, Magazines, Forums, and Informative Websites that will be handy throughout your school experience at LAFS.

INFORMATIVE WEBSITES

links
Artstation
Artsation presents an exclusive collection of works for sale by the biggest names in the market, together with a hand-picked selection of works by the hottest new talent.
Befont
Free Fonts are here! High quality design resources for free. And helps introduce first time customers to your products with free font downloads and allow them to try before they buy, it also allows your existing customer to get a free font treat every day!
Behance Graphic Design and Job Opertunities
Showcase your work. Find new inspiration, hand-picked just for you.
Burst Shopify
Their image library includes thousands of high-resolution, royalty-free images that were shot by our global community of photographers.
Canva
Canva simplified graphic-design tool, which uses a drag-and-drop format and provides access to photographs, vector images, graphics, and fonts. This website has free features u can use to create and also purchase plans to get more in depth.
Coverr
Coverr was a side project that we built in order to provide entrepreneurs like us with Free beautiful looking videos, for the products they were building.
Dafont
Archive of freely downloadable fonts. Browse by alphabetical listing, by style, by author or by popularity.
Icons 8
A free website that offers clean, trendy look to your designs. Alongside with stock photos, free icon packs, and free music, we are determined to build a design platform and change the way people create things
Flaticon
A website that has free content and also subscription based pay wall for more content. Their goal is to offer the best high-quality content: illustrations, photos, icons, mockups, and presentations templat
Life of Vids
Free videos for personal & commercial uses. New videos added weekly! High-resolution videos for free for U on our VIMEO.
Lukas Zadam
A website with free illustration library. Here you’ll find MIT licensed SVG illustration images in different shapes & styles. If you don't want to miss any upcoming illustration, join my Facebook group now.
The Noun Project
The most diverse collection of icons ever. Download SVG and PNG. It is subscription based. Icons or unlimited royalty-free icons with NounPro.
Pexels
Free stock photos you can use everywhere. Free for commercial use. No attribution required.
Pickbest
Purchase based website with some free content. Pikbest is a high-quality design templates platform.
Raw Pixel
A website with free and Premium content, Rawpixel is smashing stereotypes to create design resources that reflect today’s society as it really is.
Stock Snap
A free Website for building a business website, creating a print brochure, crafting a digital or magazine ad, or some other brilliant creative project, you know that a great image helps your content transcend "good" and become "great."
Tuts Plus
Purchase tutorials and courses to take your graphic design and illustration skills to a new level! You can find thousands of free tutorials on every design topic under the sun, from making Photoshop actions to designing a classy corporate brochure in InDesign or completing your own vector illustration
Unsplash
Over 1 million free high-resolution images brought to you by the world’s most generous community of photographers

MAGAZINES

Flipster Magazines (EBSCOhost)
Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
3D World
Communication Arts
Computer Arts
Juxtapoz
Net
Web Designer

FORUMS / BLOGS

Creative Bloq
Creative Bloq delivers a daily mix of advice and inspiration for digital and traditional artists, web designers, graphic designers, 3D and VFX artists, illustrators, and more.

Published Journals & Other Informative Databases on Graphic Design

Academic Search Elite (EBSCOhost)
Designed to meet every academic researcher's needs, Academic Search Elite provides access to acclaimed full-text scholarly journals and magazines. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Business Source Elite (EBSCOhost)
This database provides full-text coverage of top business, management, and economics journals and periodicals. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.bLog in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Directory of Open Access Journals
DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals. Access for FREE here!
ERIC (EBSCOhost)
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is an online digital library of education research and information. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Film & Television Literature Index (EBSCOhost)
Film & Television Literature Index is a database of all types of writing on film and television, including academic journals, industry and trade papers, news journalism, and popular magazines. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
HathiTrust Digital Library
HathiTrust Digital Library is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries including content digitized via Google Books and the Internet Archive digitization initiatives, as well as content digitized locally by libraries. FREE open access to journals, books, and other digitized Items that are readily available here!
Henry Stewart Marketing Journals Collection
HS Talks offers access to peer-reviewed vocational journals containing articles and case studies suitable for inclusion in courses, to support projects, and to enhance employability and preparation for the world of work. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Hit Songs Deconstructed
Hit Songs Deconstructed provides creatives and music industry professionals with powerful interactive tools, data, and analysis to support their creative process, stay in tune with how today’s hits are evolving, and make strategic songwriting, production, and business decisions. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
IMDb
IMDb is an online database of information related to films, television programs, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew, and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan & critical reviews. Free for non-commercial use. Upgrade to Pro for a price per month/year to get more features.
International Journal of Sport Management, Recreation & Tourism
IJSMaRT aims to present current practice and research in the area of sport management and marketing, recreation, and sports tourism. FREE open access journals available here.
Regional Business News (EBSCOhost)
Regional Business News provides full-text regional business publications for the United States and Canadian provinces. Users can search for newspapers, magazines, and other resources from trusted news sources. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Smithsonian Open Access
Download, share and reuse millions of the Smithsonian's images. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian's 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo. FREE open access journals available here.
Variety Insight
Variety Insight is the leading entertainment data solution that provides verified, timely, and accurate metadata around people, projects, and companies that work in the global entertainment business. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access. *Limit only 50 concurrent users at one time while using the platform.
International Music Score Library Project
A subscription-based project for the creation of a virtual library of public-domain music scores. Users can exchange musical ideas through the site, submit their own compositions, or listen to other people's compositions.

FILM PRODUCTION

Informational Websites on Film Production

Read daily news and insights regarding the subject of Film Production. This includes Blogs, Magazines, Forums, and Informative Websites that will be handy throughout your school experience at LAFS.

INFORMATIVE WEBSITES

links

MAGAZINES

Flipster Magazines (EBSCOhost)
Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Film Comment
Film Comment has been the home of independent film journalism for over 50 years, publishing in-depth interviews, critical analysis, and feature coverage of mainstream, art-house, and avant-garde filmmaking from around the world. Articles are free online.
Filmmaker
Film Riot
MovieMaker
VideoMaker
American Cinematographer
British Cinematographer
IndieWire
Echo Mag
International Cinematographers Guild (ICG)
Post
Sight & Sound

FORUMS / BLOGS

Go Into The Story
The official Screenwriting Blog of The Black List.

Published Journals & Other Informative Databases on Film Production

Academic Search Elite (EBSCOhost)
Designed to meet every academic researcher's needs, Academic Search Elite provides access to acclaimed full-text scholarly journals and magazines. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Business Source Elite (EBSCOhost)
This database provides full-text coverage of top business, management, and economics journals and periodicals. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.bLog in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Directory of Open Access Journals
DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals. Access for FREE here!
ERIC (EBSCOhost)
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is an online digital library of education research and information. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Film & Television Literature Index (EBSCOhost)
Film & Television Literature Index is a database of all types of writing on film and television, including academic journals, industry and trade papers, news journalism, and popular magazines. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
HathiTrust Digital Library
HathiTrust Digital Library is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries including content digitized via Google Books and the Internet Archive digitization initiatives, as well as content digitized locally by libraries. FREE open access to journals, books, and other digitized Items that are readily available here!
Henry Stewart Marketing Journals Collection
HS Talks offers access to peer-reviewed vocational journals containing articles and case studies suitable for inclusion in courses, to support projects, and to enhance employability and preparation for the world of work. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Hit Songs Deconstructed
Hit Songs Deconstructed provides creatives and music industry professionals with powerful interactive tools, data, and analysis to support their creative process, stay in tune with how today’s hits are evolving, and make strategic songwriting, production, and business decisions. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
IMDb
IMDb is an online database of information related to films, television programs, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew, and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan & critical reviews. Free for non-commercial use. Upgrade to Pro for a price per month/year to get more features.
International Journal of Sport Management, Recreation & Tourism
IJSMaRT aims to present current practice and research in the area of sport management and marketing, recreation, and sports tourism. FREE open access journals available here.
Regional Business News (EBSCOhost)
Regional Business News provides full-text regional business publications for the United States and Canadian provinces. Users can search for newspapers, magazines, and other resources from trusted news sources. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Smithsonian Open Access
Download, share and reuse millions of the Smithsonian's images. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian's 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo. FREE open access journals available here.
Variety Insight
Variety Insight is the leading entertainment data solution that provides verified, timely, and accurate metadata around people, projects, and companies that work in the global entertainment business. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access. *Limit only 50 concurrent users at one time while using the platform.
International Music Score Library Project
A subscription-based project for the creation of a virtual library of public-domain music scores. Users can exchange musical ideas through the site, submit their own compositions, or listen to other people's compositions.

WRITING FOR FILM & TV

Informational Websites on Writing for Film & TV

Read daily news and insights regarding the subject of Writing for Film & TV. This includes Blogs, Magazines, Forums, and Informative Websites that will be handy throughout your school experience at LAFS.

INFORMATIVE WEBSITES

links

MAGAZINES

Flipster Magazines (EBSCOhost)
Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
American Cinematographer
British Cinematographer
Creative Screenwriting Magazine
Echo Mag
Film Comment
Filmmaker
Screenwriting Magazine
Scripts Magazine
IndieWire
International Cinematographers Guild (ICG)
MovieMaker
Post
Screenwriting Magazine
Script Mag
Sight & Sound
VideoMaker

FORUMS / BLOGS

Published Journals & Other Informative Databases on Writing for Film & TV

Academic Search Elite (EBSCOhost)
Designed to meet every academic researcher's needs, Academic Search Elite provides access to acclaimed full-text scholarly journals and magazines. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Business Source Elite (EBSCOhost)
This database provides full-text coverage of top business, management, and economics journals and periodicals. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.bLog in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Directory of Open Access Journals
DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals. Access for FREE here!
ERIC (EBSCOhost)
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is an online digital library of education research and information. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Film & Television Literature Index (EBSCOhost)
Film & Television Literature Index is a database of all types of writing on film and television, including academic journals, industry and trade papers, news journalism, and popular magazines. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
HathiTrust Digital Library
HathiTrust Digital Library is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries including content digitized via Google Books and the Internet Archive digitization initiatives, as well as content digitized locally by libraries. FREE open access to journals, books, and other digitized Items that are readily available here!
Henry Stewart Marketing Journals Collection
HS Talks offers access to peer-reviewed vocational journals containing articles and case studies suitable for inclusion in courses, to support projects, and to enhance employability and preparation for the world of work. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Hit Songs Deconstructed
Hit Songs Deconstructed provides creatives and music industry professionals with powerful interactive tools, data, and analysis to support their creative process, stay in tune with how today’s hits are evolving, and make strategic songwriting, production, and business decisions. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
IMDb
IMDb is an online database of information related to films, television programs, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew, and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan & critical reviews. Free for non-commercial use. Upgrade to Pro for a price per month/year to get more features.
International Journal of Sport Management, Recreation & Tourism
IJSMaRT aims to present current practice and research in the area of sport management and marketing, recreation, and sports tourism. FREE open access journals available here.
Regional Business News (EBSCOhost)
Regional Business News provides full-text regional business publications for the United States and Canadian provinces. Users can search for newspapers, magazines, and other resources from trusted news sources. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Smithsonian Open Access
Download, share and reuse millions of the Smithsonian's images. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian's 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo. FREE open access journals available here.
Variety Insight
Variety Insight is the leading entertainment data solution that provides verified, timely, and accurate metadata around people, projects, and companies that work in the global entertainment business. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access. *Limit only 50 concurrent users at one time while using the platform.
International Music Score Library Project
A subscription-based project for the creation of a virtual library of public-domain music scores. Users can exchange musical ideas through the site, submit their own compositions, or listen to other people's compositions.

AUDIO PRODUCTION

Informational Websites on Audio Production

Read daily news and insights regarding the subject of Audio Production. This includes Blogs, Magazines, Forums, and Informative Websites that will be handy throughout your school experience at LAFS.

INFORMATIVE WEBSITES

Audioblocks
A monthly subscription based website. Storyblocks is your one-stop shop for royalty-free stock audio. Our unlimited member library provides all the music, sound effects, and loops to build your story.
BBC Sound Effects Library
These 16,000 BBC Sound Effects are made available by the BBC in WAV format to download for use under the terms of the RemArc Licence. The sound effects and field recordings from the BBC Archive are available to listen/download and can be used for personal, educational or research-based needs.
Brian Funk
A website with free and premium ableton packs. Brian Funk is a New York-based musician, producer, and Ableton Certified Trainer. His website has countless tutorials on different audio software with helpful tips and tricks on how to elevate audio to the next level.
Elphnt
A website with free and purchasable ableton packs. Get unique and powerful tools to make new sounds and transform your existing ones. Learn creative techniques with tutorials from an Ableton Certified Trainer.
Free SFX
This web site provides free sound effects that you are able to use in any commercial, non-commercial, broadcast multimedia/audio visual production.
Freesound Database
Freesound is a collaborative database of Creative Commons Licensed sounds. Browse, download and share sounds.
Goldbaby
Goldbaby has a fantastic reputation for creating useful and interesting instruments for use in many different genres of music for free.
Juno 106
A website with a free emulation of the classic Roland Juno-106 analog synthesizer. Minimum window size of 1024x768. Please use an updated version of Google Chrome.
MacproVideo
macProVideo.com is an online education community for creative computer users. Our courses focus on artistic skills like Making Music, Video Editing, Graphic Design, 3D Modelling & Game Dev, Photography, and Web/Computer Programming.
Mode Audio
A website you can purchase sounds. ModeAudio aims to deliver audio tools that sound incredible, are available instantly and that will integrate seamlessly with your favourite music software.
Open Music Library
The Open Music Library is an initiative from Alexander Street to build the world’s largest free index of digital resources for the study of music.
Patatap
Patatap is a website with a free portable animation and sound kit. With the touch of a finger create melodies charged with moving shapes. Warning: contains flashing images.
The Pro Audio Files
A website you can buy a monthly membership or look through their free resources. Pro Audio Files is a community of audio professionals from around the world sharing articles, videos and courses on recording, mixing, mastering and producing music.
Tuts Plus
Discover thousands of free tutorials covering all aspects of music and audio, from songwriting to audio production. Follow our expert instructors who'll help you become more productive and effective.
Web Synth
WebSynths.com is a FREE, browser-based musical instrument, optimized for microtonal experimentation on multi-touch devices.

MAGAZINES

Flipster Magazines (EBSCOhost)
Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Mix
Sound on Sound
Recording
Electronic Musician
Tape Op
ProSound News
Sound & Communications

FORUMS / BLOGS

Keyboard Mag
Keyboard takes you inside the recording studio and on tour with the world’s finest music makers. Every issue includes feature articles on recording artists, producers, and master players, plus product reviews, music news, gear giveaways, and more.
Music Brainz
MusicBrainz is an open music encyclopedia that collects music metadata and makes it available to the public.
Music Radar
MusicRadar is the number 1 website for music makers of all kinds, be they guitarists, drummers, keyboard players, djs or producers.
Splice Blog
Splice is a cloud-based music creation and collaboration platform, which integrates with key digital audio workstations to offer automated online backup with version control, online and offline collaboration as well as visualization of the creation process.

Published Journals & Other Informative Databases on Audio Production

Academic Search Elite (EBSCOhost)
Designed to meet every academic researcher's needs, Academic Search Elite provides access to acclaimed full-text scholarly journals and magazines. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Business Source Elite (EBSCOhost)
This database provides full-text coverage of top business, management, and economics journals and periodicals. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.bLog in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Directory of Open Access Journals
DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals. Access for FREE here!
ERIC (EBSCOhost)
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is an online digital library of education research and information. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Film & Television Literature Index (EBSCOhost)
Film & Television Literature Index is a database of all types of writing on film and television, including academic journals, industry and trade papers, news journalism, and popular magazines. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
HathiTrust Digital Library
HathiTrust Digital Library is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries including content digitized via Google Books and the Internet Archive digitization initiatives, as well as content digitized locally by libraries. FREE open access to journals, books, and other digitized Items that are readily available here!
Henry Stewart Marketing Journals Collection
HS Talks offers access to peer-reviewed vocational journals containing articles and case studies suitable for inclusion in courses, to support projects, and to enhance employability and preparation for the world of work. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Hit Songs Deconstructed
Hit Songs Deconstructed provides creatives and music industry professionals with powerful interactive tools, data, and analysis to support their creative process, stay in tune with how today’s hits are evolving, and make strategic songwriting, production, and business decisions. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
IMDb
IMDb is an online database of information related to films, television programs, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew, and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan & critical reviews. Free for non-commercial use. Upgrade to Pro for a price per month/year to get more features.
International Journal of Sport Management, Recreation & Tourism
IJSMaRT aims to present current practice and research in the area of sport management and marketing, recreation, and sports tourism. FREE open access journals available here.
Regional Business News (EBSCOhost)
Regional Business News provides full-text regional business publications for the United States and Canadian provinces. Users can search for newspapers, magazines, and other resources from trusted news sources. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Smithsonian Open Access
Download, share and reuse millions of the Smithsonian's images. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian's 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo. FREE open access journals available here.
Variety Insight
Variety Insight is the leading entertainment data solution that provides verified, timely, and accurate metadata around people, projects, and companies that work in the global entertainment business. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access. *Limit only 50 concurrent users at one time while using the platform.
International Music Score Library Project
A subscription-based project for the creation of a virtual library of public-domain music scores. Users can exchange musical ideas through the site, submit their own compositions, or listen to other people's compositions.

MUSIC PRODUCTION

Informational Websites on Music Production

Read daily news and insights regarding the subject of Music Production. This includes Blogs, Magazines, Forums, and Informative Websites that will be handy throughout your school experience at LAFS.

INFORMATIVE WEBSITES

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Ableton.com
Free tutorials, downloads and news. They make Live, Push and Link — unique software and hardware for music creation and performance
BPB
BPB is a website about free and affordable music making software. Things like online BPM counters, tuners, virtual instruments and web based music sequencers can be life savers when you’re making music or recording audio outside of your studio.
cymatics.fm/blog
Free downloadable sample packs, & more. Find your sound, and take your music production to the next level today!
Deviantnoise.com
A website with a shop where you’ll find links to all our major guides, tools and resources for creating and producing your own music.
EDMTips
Instead of digging through hundreds of magazines and websites, or spending hundreds (or thousands) on expensive music production schools, subscribe to EDMtips (it’s free) and you’ll get proven tips, tricks, techniques and strategies each week, delivered straight to your inbox. Courses must be payed for.
Elphnt
A website with free tutorials and Ableton packs for purchase. ELPHNT helps you make better music with Ableton Live. Get unique and powerful tools to make new sounds and transform your existing ones. Learn creative techniques with tutorials from an Ableton Certified Trainer.
Engadget - Five must have resources for every aspiring music producer
Shop five must-have music production resources to help you get started.
Open Music Library
The Open Music Library is an initiative from Alexander Street to build the world’s largest free index of digital resources for the study of music.
theproaudiofiles.com
The Pro Audio Files, a community of audio professionals from around the world sharing articles, videos and courses on recording, mixing, mastering and producing music. Subscription based website to gain access to courses.

MAGAZINES

Flipster Magazines (EBSCOhost)
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Mix
Sound on Sound
Recording
Electronic Musician
Tape Op
ProSound News
Sound & Communications

FORUMS / BLOGS

Audiomentor
A free website for musicians, producers & business people. They write & post music production topics that cover techniques on recording, editing, mixing to mastering your music.
Gearslutz.com
A free forum for professional and amateur recording, mixing/mastering engineers to share techniques and advice.
Midilifestyle.com
A free forum includes all of our top recommendations for producers, from software, to hardware, to educational material.
splice.com/blog
Splice is the leading platform for music production offering access to millions of the best royalty-free samples, loops, and presets; Rent-to-Own plugins & DAWs.

Published Journals & Other Informative Databases on Music Production

Academic Search Elite (EBSCOhost)
Designed to meet every academic researcher's needs, Academic Search Elite provides access to acclaimed full-text scholarly journals and magazines. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Business Source Elite (EBSCOhost)
This database provides full-text coverage of top business, management, and economics journals and periodicals. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.bLog in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Directory of Open Access Journals
DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals. Access for FREE here!
ERIC (EBSCOhost)
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is an online digital library of education research and information. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Film & Television Literature Index (EBSCOhost)
Film & Television Literature Index is a database of all types of writing on film and television, including academic journals, industry and trade papers, news journalism, and popular magazines. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
HathiTrust Digital Library
HathiTrust Digital Library is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries including content digitized via Google Books and the Internet Archive digitization initiatives, as well as content digitized locally by libraries. FREE open access to journals, books, and other digitized Items that are readily available here!
Henry Stewart Marketing Journals Collection
HS Talks offers access to peer-reviewed vocational journals containing articles and case studies suitable for inclusion in courses, to support projects, and to enhance employability and preparation for the world of work. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Hit Songs Deconstructed
Hit Songs Deconstructed provides creatives and music industry professionals with powerful interactive tools, data, and analysis to support their creative process, stay in tune with how today’s hits are evolving, and make strategic songwriting, production, and business decisions. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
IMDb
IMDb is an online database of information related to films, television programs, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew, and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan & critical reviews. Free for non-commercial use. Upgrade to Pro for a price per month/year to get more features.
International Journal of Sport Management, Recreation & Tourism
IJSMaRT aims to present current practice and research in the area of sport management and marketing, recreation, and sports tourism. FREE open access journals available here.
Regional Business News (EBSCOhost)
Regional Business News provides full-text regional business publications for the United States and Canadian provinces. Users can search for newspapers, magazines, and other resources from trusted news sources. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access.
Smithsonian Open Access
Download, share and reuse millions of the Smithsonian's images. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian's 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo. FREE open access journals available here.
Variety Insight
Variety Insight is the leading entertainment data solution that provides verified, timely, and accurate metadata around people, projects, and companies that work in the global entertainment business. Log in with your LAFS username & password to gain access. *Limit only 50 concurrent users at one time while using the platform.
International Music Score Library Project
A subscription-based project for the creation of a virtual library of public-domain music scores. Users can exchange musical ideas through the site, submit their own compositions, or listen to other people's compositions.

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Leisure & Sports Entertainment

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Dictionary & Encyclopedia Websites

Job Websites

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Music Resources

Streaming Music Resources

Art Collections

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MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS

Informational Websites on Media Communications

Published Journals & Other Informative Databases on Media Communications

ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS

Informational Websites on Entertainment Business

Published Journals & Other Informative Databases on Entertainment Business

Entertainment Business (Paid)

ANIMATION & VISUAL EFFECTS

Informational Websites on Animation & Visual Effects

Published Journals & Other Informative Databases on Animation & Visual Effects

Animation Software Tools

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Informational Websites on Graphic Design

Published Journals & Other Informative Databases on Graphic Design

FILM PRODUCTION

Informational Websites on Film Production

Published Journals & Other Informative Databases on Film Production

WRITING FOR FILM & TV

Informational Websites on Writing for Film & TV

Published Journals & Other Informative Databases on Writing for Film & TV

AUDIO PRODUCTION

Informational Websites on Audio Production

Published Journals & Other Informative Databases on Audio Production

MUSIC PRODUCTION

Informational Websites on Music Production

Published Journals & Other Informative Databases on Music Production