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DATABASES FOR FINDING ARTICLES BY DISCIPLINE
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To find articles about the Performing Arts, here is a list of our databases by subject:
Recommended Music & Performing Arts Databases for Finding Articles
The following Databases are suggested for finding journal articles in the Performing Arts
- Folger Digital Texts (Shakespeare Library) This link opens in a new window Shakespeare's plays in Folger Digital Texts are from the Folger Shakespeare Library editions, edited by Barbara Mowat and Paul Werstine and published by Simon and Schuster. They include a dozen of Shakespeare's best known plays, including Hamlet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and The Tempest. The texts-including full source code-can also be downloaded at no charge for noncommercial use.
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- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window Provides more than 7,000 multidisciplinary full-text periodicals, nearly 6,000 peer-reviewed journals, and more than 11,600 monographs, reports, conference proceedings, dating back as far as 1887.
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- Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window Includes over 1 million full text and 2.4 million citations for dissertations and theses from around the world, dating as far back as the 1870s. Please note: full text documents may be up to 500 pages. Please use discretion and consider all options before printing.
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- Gale Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window Provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline.
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- Humanities Full Text This link opens in a new window Provides citations and some full text in a broad range of subject areas including literature, art, archeology, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion, history, and gender studies. Some original works of poetry, fiction, and drama are included. Indexing dates back to 1984, with select full text coverage beginning in 1994.
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- JSTOR This link opens in a new window A searchable scholarly archive providing the full text of journal articles in business, economics, history, political science, literature, sociology, as well as other key fields in the humanities, social sciences, and physical sciences.
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- Literature Criticism Online This link opens in a new window Provides online access to the full collection of Contemporary Literary Criticism, Drama Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400-1800, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, and Children�s Literature
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- MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window Offers bibliographic access to journal articles, books and dissertations in language, literature, folklore and the dramatic arts. It dates as far back as the 1920s.
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- Project Muse This link opens in a new window Provides the full text of scholarly journals in fields including literature, history, visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and economics. Years of coverage vary by title with selected titles beginning as early as 1993.
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- World Shakespeare Bibliography Online This link opens in a new window An international, comprehensive collection of records of Shakespeare-related scholarship. The searchable database includes records from books, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews, audiovisual materials and more, published or produced worldwide between 1960 and 2013, in more than 92 languages.
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Scholarly vs. Popular Articles
Don't Forget about Newspapers!
Newspapers are an excellent source for your research. You can access the New York Times full text through these databases:
- New York Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new window Offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue of the New York Times. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue from the year 1851 to 2003.
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