Databases for Theatre and Dance
Best Bets
| Database | Description | Coverage | More Info |
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| International Index to Performing Arts Full Text |
This database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 260 international periodicals, plus full text for more than 100 of the indexed journals. |
1990s-present |
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| MLA International Bibliography |
MLA covers folklore, languages, linguistics, and literature. Provides over one million citations for items from more than 4,400 journals and series published worldwide. |
1926-present |
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| JSTOR |
JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of academic journals (over 1,000) in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. |
Coverage is the beginning of the journal until two to five years ago. |
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| Project Muse |
Project Muse provides full text access to over 335 journals, and indexing for 200 more in the humanities and social sciences. |
1996-present |
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Also Useful
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| Academic OneFile |
Contains more than 11,000 academic jounals, the majority in full text and peer-reviewed, and podcasts and transcripts from major news sources. |
1980-present |
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| Academic Search Complete |
Provides full text for over 8,500 magazines and journals, and indexing for 4,100 more titles. |
1980-present |
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| Americas Historical Newspapers |
Includes more than 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 states. |
1690-1922 |
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| Berg Fashion Library |
The Berg Fashion Library offers fully cross-searchable access to a range of Berg content collections – including the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion online, e-books, |
1600-present |
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| Dance Education Literature and Research descriptive index |
This database includes extensive descriptions of 4,500+ literary works including theses, dissertations, journal articles, conference proceedings and other reports. |
1926-present |
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| Design and Applied Arts Index |
Covers journal articles, exhibition reviews and news items. |
1973-present |
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| Film and Television Literature Index with Full Text |
Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 370 publications (and selected coverage for nearly 300 publications), as |
Coverage varies |
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| Literature Resource Center |
LRC is built upon Gale's three author resources: Contemporary Authors, offering biographical coverage of more than 120,000 modern writers; Contemporary Literary Criticism |
Current and retrospective |
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| Naxos Video Library |
Naxos Video Library brings you an extensive streaming video library of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts and documentaries. |
1990-present |
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| ProQuest Historical Newspapers |
Offers full-text and full-image articles for 13 large American daily newspapers and two daily British Newspapers (The Guardian and The Observer) |
1764-2005 |
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Even More
| Database | Description | Coverage | More Info |
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| ARTstor Digital Library |
The collection currently contains over one million images, including the following collections: |
Prehistory to the present |
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| Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance |
The library's subscription includes the following databases: |
400-1700 |
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| Naxos Music Library |
Naxos Music Library is a comprehensive collection of classical music available online. |
1150-present |
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| Naxos Video Library |
Naxos Video Library brings you an extensive streaming video library of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts and documentaries. |
1990-present |
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| Smithsonian Global Sound |
The latest release of Smithsonian Global Sound (2013) includes 2,949 albums, equalling 42,405 tracks. |
20th century |
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