Subject Specific Databases
Each of the resources listed here hold collections of material dealing with topics of drama, theatre, music or performing arts. Theatre, as with all of the arts, is inter-disciplinary by nature. It is therefore advisable to consider looking at specific disciplinary resources (e.g. Literature, History, Psychology, etc.) for your topic in addition to the ones listed below.
- Fine Arts and Music Collection This link opens in a new window Fine Arts and Music Collection provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that support research in areas including drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. The database emphasizes full-text content for publications included in the Wilson Art Index and RILM bibliography.
- Humanities Source This link opens in a new window Humanities Source provides full text—plus abstracts and bibliographic indexing—for the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities. Including feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, book reviews, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, and much more,
- Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
- MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window 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 2.2 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers. The indexed materials coverage is international and includes almost 60 titles from J-STOR’s language and literature collection as well as links to full text.
Multidisciplinary Databases
Multidisciplinary databases contain resources from a variety of different academic subjects, often including Arts,Humanities, Social Sciences, and Physical Sciences. While these are excellent for use of topics that cross over two or more disciplines, take care with analyzing the materials you discover as there are magazine, newspaper, and trade publications included with scholarly articles.
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window Scholarly, multidisciplinary database containing more than 6,100 full-text journals, and indexing/abstracts for more than 10,100 journals.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window Contains almost 1,000 full-text journals spanning multiple disciplines. Some journals go to back to the mid-1800's. There is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issues and the issues available in JSTOR.
