Academic Search Premier
Large, scholarly, multi-disciplinary database indexing more than 8,000 journals with full text for more than 4,600 titles of which more than 3,500 are peer-reviewed publications. Some 30 journals are specifically focused on theatre. |
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DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
This service covers full text, quality-controlled, scholarly journals. As of August 2007 there were 9 journals in the performing arts field. Search is by individual journal. |
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JSTOR
Access to more than 100 scholarly, peer-reviewed journals, in 15 disciplines. We subscribe to the Arts and Sciences I package. Includes full text coverage for the Shakespeare Quarterly. |
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Literature Resource Center
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale Group's core literary databases in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, dramatists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors. Provided by Gale's InfoTrac. |
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Literary Reference Center
A comprehensive literary reference database, which provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a completely full-text database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else. Coverage of dramatists included. Provided by EBSCO. |
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LitFinder
Access to poems, short stories, plays, speeches, essays, and biographies of literary figures. |
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MLA International Bibliography
Offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series, and 1,000 book publishers. Includes coverage of the dramatic arts.
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New York Times
Full text articles including reviews of artists and performances, 1995-present. (ProQuest) |
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Play Index
Search for plays by title; author; subject (culture conflict, marriage); style (symbolism, experimental theater); genre (comedy, melodrama, musical); cast type; and more. Covers a wide range of plays written in or translated into English, including one-act plays, pageants, plays in verse, radio and television plays, and classic drama. |
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ProjectMUSE
Access to 250 quality journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers. As one of the academic community's primary electronic journals resources, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others. All peer-reviewed. |
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LexisNexis
Provides U.S. and international news--good source for performance reviews
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