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  • Digital Theatre+
    Digital Theatre+ provides access to hundreds of theatre productions and educational resources covering English and the Performing Arts. video multimedia
  • Directory of Open Access Books
    A searchable index to peer-reviewed monographs and edited volumes published under an Open Access business model, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher’s website or repository. Coverage: 1985-. books e-books multi-subject databases
  • Drama Online
    Drama Online is a unique online resource published by Bloomsbury Publishing, of over 1,000 full-text plays and 100+ related reference works. Accessible collections include the Core Collection, Nick Hern Books Modern Plays, Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen 1&2, and Shakespeare in the Present. literary texts video multimedia

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  • Filmakers Library Online
    Streaming video collection of award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum–race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. Coverage: Details not available. multi-subject databases video multimedia
  • Films on Demand – Master Academic Collection
    17,000+ videos in business & economics, health & medicine, humanities & social sciences, and science & mathematics. Includes Oscar, Emmy and Peabody award winning documentaries, interviews, instructional and vocational training videos, historical speeches and newsreels. multi-subject databases video multimedia

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  • HathiTrust Digital Library
    HathiTrust Digital Library is a digital preservation repository and highly functional access platform. It provides long-term preservation and access services for public domain and in-copyright content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house partner institution initiatives. Log in as a WFU user to get access to downloadable PDFs of public domain items. Coverage: Varies. books e-books multi-subject databases
  • hoopla
    Formerly RBdigital. Download ebooks and audio books provided by NC LIVE. Titles are also linked individually from the ZSR Library Catalog. Note: Users will need to register for an account before accessing NC LIVE content on hoopla. Enter an email address, select library as “NC LIVE”, enter any number you like in the library card space. Browse and borrow from hoopla’s Flex collection! books e-books multi-subject databases

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  • Kanopy Video
    Kanopy is a distributor of educational videos for online viewing. Content is available across multiple subject areas. video multimedia

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  • New Play Exchange
    The New Play Exchange, a National New Play Network project, is the world’s largest digital library of scripts by living writers. literary texts

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  • Oxford Art Online
    Covers art and culture from prehistory to the 1990s. Its multicultural approach offers detailed analyses of civilizations from Asia, Africa, the Americas, Europe, and the Pacific. Provides a guide to the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, drawing, and printmaking, as well as the decorative arts. Coverage: Details not available. artwork images encyclopedias reference
  • Oxford Bibliographies: Art History
    Oxford Bibliographies Online are authoritative, scholar-developed research guides covering a variety of subject areas. They combine features of an annotated bibliography and a subject encyclopedia, guiding researchers to the best available scholarship on the topic. encyclopedias reference
  • Oxford Bibliographies: Cinema and Media Studies
    Oxford Bibliographies: Cinema and Media Studies, offers authoritative research guides that combine features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. Subjects covered include film history, television studies, media studies, critical theory, visual arts, cultural studies, digital culture, game studies, popular culture, and the study of the moving image. encyclopedias reference
  • Oxford Music Online
    Covers all aspects of music worldwide, including composers, performers, other persons involved with music, terminology, musical genres and forms, orchestras, institutions, and cities and towns with significant musical traditions. Coverage: Details not available. encyclopedias reference

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  • SIRS Discoverer
    Designed specifically for elementary and middle school students, SIRS Discoverer offer articles, nonfiction books, images, activities and websites curated for educational relevance, age appropriateness, and readability. curriculum resources k-12 encyclopedias reference
  • Swank Digital Campus
    Swank Digital Campus provides a customizable academic streaming library of feature films, documentaries and foreign films from the largest movie studios, including Walt Disney, Warner Bros., Paramount, NBCUniversal, Columbia Pictures, Lions Gate, MGM, Miramax and many more. video multimedia

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  • Theatre and Drama Premium
    Theatre and Drama Premium provides everything you need to bring the spectacle of theatre and drama into the classroom, from interviews with giants like Arthur Miller or James Earl Jones to previously unpublished play manuscripts from the genius of Ed Bullins and Jeannie Barroga.Includes the Drama Text collection, featuring Asian American Drama, Black Drama, Latin American Drama, North American Indian Drama, and more; and the Theatre Performance and Design Collection, featuring the National Theatre Collection, Royal Shakespeare Company Collection, Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection, and more.  literary texts video multimedia

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