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Academic Search Complete  (EBSCOhost)
 
Provides full text for nearlymore than 5,000 scholarly publications covering all academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Click here for a journal title list.


JSTOR  (JSTOR)
 
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JSTOR is an archive of complete full-text backfiles. The current collection includes journals from the Art & Science Collections I - V and the Arts & Sciences Complement and covers most academic disciplines. This collection is growing and currently has more then 500 titles.


Data for Research  (JSTOR)
 
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A new way to search the JSTOR database! Provided by JSTOR for use by the research community. It provides a set of web-based tools for selecting and interacting with content from the JSTOR archive. The service also provides the ability to obtain data sets via bulk downloads or using a REST API. Features provided by the site include: Full-text and fielded searching of the entire JSTOR archive using a powerful faceted search interface. Using this interface one can quickly and easily define content of interest through an iterative process of searching and results filtering. Online viewing of document-level data including word frequencies, citations, key terms, and ngrams.


Project MUSE Basic College Collection   (John Hopkins University)
 
The Basic College Collection is an interdisciplinary collection of scholarly peer-reviewed journals designed for institutions acquiring extensively in the humanities and social sciences. Titles in this collection are chosen based on a number of criteria, including the journal's presence in appropriate high quality indexes, inclusion in archival collections, and current usage in MUSE. The collection consists of over 130 journals including The Catholic Historical Review, ELH, The Henry James Review, Journal of the History of Ideas, and World Politics.


Humanities Full Text  (Wilson Web)
 
This database covers the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities. Subject areas include archaeology, classical studies, dance, film, folklore, gender studies, history, literary criticism, literature, music, performing arts, philosophy and religion. The database cites feature articles, interviews, bibliographies, obituaries, works of fiction, drama and poetry, and reviews of ballets, theatre, dance, movies, musicals, operas, plays and television programs. Coverage is from the present to 1984. The database includes the full text of over 200 publications and abstracting/indexing of another 550 titles.


International Bibliography of Theater and Dance  (EBSCOhost)
 
International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text contains all of the content available in International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance as well as full text for 100 titles, including Canadian Theatre Review, Dance Chronicle, Dance Teacher, Modern Drama, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Research in Dance Education, Research in Drama Education, Studies in Theatre and Performance, TDR: The Drama Review, Theater, and many more. Additional full text available includes more than 50 books & monographs.

MUSIC ONLINE

Naxos Music Library
 
The Naxos Music Library is the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It offers the complete Naxos, Marco Polo, Da Capo catalogues, and selected titles from other labels. Most recordings come with scholarly notes which have been written by respected musicologists. All notes can be accessed and read while listening. NAXOS has 90,000-plus tracks, and more than 6,000 CDs. Over 7,000 composers are represented. Besides classical other genres include Jazz, Blues, World and Chinese music. New releases are added monthly.


Smithsonian Global Sound  (Alexander Street Press)
 
This database includes an extraordinary array of more than 35,000 individual tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds. Specially developed, controlled vocabularies enable users to browse by musical instrument, geographic area, or cultural group, among other fields. Includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of the legendary Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels.

THEATRE ONLINE

Theatre in Video with BBC Shakespeare     (Alexander Street Press)
 
Contains more than 250 of the world´ s most important plays, together with more than 100 video documentaries, all online in streaming video. From the most important productions of Shakespeare to rare, in-depth footage focusing on the work of Samuel Beckett, Theatre in Video offers more than 500 hours of online streaming video, and covers a wide range of 20th century theatre history. Users can bookmark specific scenes and then include those online links in their papers or course reserves.

E-REFERENCE BOOKS

Credo Reference
 
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Offering access to over 1 million individual entries, Credo Reference (formerly xreferplus) contains all types of reference books : dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, and books of quotations, and subject-specific titles covering everything from the arts to accountancy and law to literature.

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