Subject Specific Databases
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Digital Theatre+ This link opens in a new windowOne of the world’s leading educational platforms for the performing arts. Includes live performance videos, interviews, and guides with a focus on illustration, explanation, and critical reflection.
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Academic Video Online @ Alexander Street Press This link opens in a new windowProvides access to more than 63,000 videos, including scholarly video material of virtually every video type: films, documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, demonstrations, original and raw footage including tens of thousands of exclusive titles.
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International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance This link opens in a new windowFully indexed, cross-referenced and annotated database of over 60,000 journal articles, books, book articles and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theatre and performance in 126 countries.
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Screen Studies Collection This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive survey of current publications related to film scholarship alongside detailed and expansive filmographies. This collection includes the specialist index FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database and the detailed and complementary filmographies created by the American Film Institute and the British Film Institute; AFI Catalog and Film Index International.
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Performing Arts Periodicals Database This link opens in a new windowIndexed articles, plus detailed abstracts and full text from 1864 to present, covering film, theatre and dance.
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RILM This link opens in a new windowComprehensive guide to publications on music and musical theatre from all over the world with records covering articles, books, bibliographies, catalogs, dissertations, reviews, and more.
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Music Periodicals Database This link opens in a new windowMusic and musical theatre journal resource with over 900,000 indexed articles, plus detailed abstracts and full text from 1874 to the present, covering the scholarly to the popular.
General Databases
Databases covering a wide variety of language and literature subjects, including the theatre arts.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new windowAn excellent source for articles on literature and literary criticism, among other fields. A good place to find articles older than 1980.
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Project Muse This link opens in a new windowA selective database including some of the most prestigious journals in the area of literary criticism, among others.
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Gale Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new windowContains the full text of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
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MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new windowThe standard source for information on articles about English, literature, and literary criticism. WARNING: most articles are not full-text.
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Literary Reference Source This link opens in a new windowAn excellent resource for background information on authors and their works.
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Literature Online This link opens in a new windowAlso known as LION; a good source for literary criticism and the full texts of some poems, plays, and prose.
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Oxford English Dictionary This link opens in a new windowAlso known as the OED; the most comprehensive dictionary and word history resource for the English language.
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Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new windowIncludes all data from the Humanities International Index plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. Provides full text access to more than 1,200 journals.