Theatre Databases

Getting Started:

• Academic Search Elite
  Index to over 8 million articles published in over 3000 periodicals, including 2500 peer-reviewed journals representing all disciplines. Also includes the full-text of the artices from over 1500 peer-reviewed journals and 500 general periodicals.
  
  
• Library Catalog
  Catalog of books, CDs, scores, videos and other materials available in the University Library.
  
  
• Theatre in Video
  Video recordings of selected, significant plays and documentaries on topics in theatre
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Most Comprehensive:

• Drama Criticism
  Summaries, excerperts, and citations to interpretation and criticism.
  Available in print in the Reference Room: Ref. PN1601 .D59N1655 .P53x
  
  
• Play Index
  Indicates where a particular play is printed in a periodical or a collection.
  Available in print in the Reference Room: Ref. PN1655 .P53x
  
  
• MLA Bibliography
  Index of publications on literature and related fields published in over 6,000 journals and series, monographs, working papers and conference proceedings from 1926 to the present.
  
  

Other Useful Databases:

• Humanities Full Text
  Searches the abstracts (descriptions) 250,000 articles and reviews of 300,000 books published in 600 leading humanities journals from 1984 to the present.
  
  
• JSTOR
  Full-text of older issues (five years or more) from select academic journals, including 13 language and literature journals.
  
  
• Project MUSE
  Full-text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts, humanities and social sciences, including a dozen theatre, film and performing arts journals. Coverage includes the current and previous year; back files vary.
  
  
• WorldCat
  FirstSearch database with over 36 million records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries: books, musical scores, manuscripts, video recordings, cassettes, maps, etc. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 11th century.

See Also:

• English databases
  
  
• Modern Language databases
  
  
• Music databases