Articles: Newspapers & Magazines (4)

• Performing Arts Periodicals Database

  Performing Arts Periodicals Database indexes around 400 scholarly and trade journals, magazines, books, and newspapers covering theater, dance, film, television, stagecraft, broadcast arts, storytelling, and more. It draws from both current files and selected backfiles to 1864 and 134 publications are included in full text. Coverage: 1864-.

• ProQuest Recent Newspapers

  Contains 18 newspapers with coverage beginning in the late 2000's through present with a three-month embargo. Titles include Barron's, LA Times, Newsday, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, and more.

• RILM Abstracts of Music Literature

  RILM is a comprehensive music bibliography featuring citations, abstracts, and indexes. Publications originate from 151 countries and are in 214 languages. There are currently over 550,000 records in RILM on traditional music, popular music, and classical music. Coverage of all document types begins in 1967. Coverage of Conference Proceedings goes back to 1835. Coverage: 1967-.

• Understanding Shakespeare

  Easily find JSTOR articles that cite a given line of a Shakespeare play. Simply navigate to the line of the play and click the number next to it to view a list of relevant articles from the JSTOR archive. Understanding Shakespeare is a collaborative project between JSTOR Labs and the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Articles: Scholarly Journals (4)

• Performing Arts Periodicals Database

  Performing Arts Periodicals Database indexes around 400 scholarly and trade journals, magazines, books, and newspapers covering theater, dance, film, television, stagecraft, broadcast arts, storytelling, and more. It draws from both current files and selected backfiles to 1864 and 134 publications are included in full text. Coverage: 1864-.

• ProQuest Recent Newspapers

  Contains 18 newspapers with coverage beginning in the late 2000's through present with a three-month embargo. Titles include Barron's, LA Times, Newsday, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, and more.

• RILM Abstracts of Music Literature

  RILM is a comprehensive music bibliography featuring citations, abstracts, and indexes. Publications originate from 151 countries and are in 214 languages. There are currently over 550,000 records in RILM on traditional music, popular music, and classical music. Coverage of all document types begins in 1967. Coverage of Conference Proceedings goes back to 1835. Coverage: 1967-.

• Understanding Shakespeare

  Easily find JSTOR articles that cite a given line of a Shakespeare play. Simply navigate to the line of the play and click the number next to it to view a list of relevant articles from the JSTOR archive. Understanding Shakespeare is a collaborative project between JSTOR Labs and the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Artwork & Images (1)

• Berg Fashion Library

  Berg Fashion Library’s content comes from eBooks, reference works, seminal essays, and museum partnerships

Encyclopedias & Reference (5)

• Berg Fashion Library

  Berg Fashion Library’s content comes from eBooks, reference works, seminal essays, and museum partnerships

• MGG Online

  MGG Online contains the digital version of the German-language music encyclopedia, Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. MGG also includes in-depth articles on every aspect of music as well as many related areas such as literature, philosophy, and visual arts.

• 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.

• 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.

• Shakespeare Collection

  Multiple resources for the study of Shakespeare, including criticism, the Arden full-text annotated editions, journal articles, prompt books, and other reference material.

Literary Criticism & Reference (3)

• Performing Arts Periodicals Database

  Performing Arts Periodicals Database indexes around 400 scholarly and trade journals, magazines, books, and newspapers covering theater, dance, film, television, stagecraft, broadcast arts, storytelling, and more. It draws from both current files and selected backfiles to 1864 and 134 publications are included in full text. Coverage: 1864-.

• Shakespeare Collection

  Multiple resources for the study of Shakespeare, including criticism, the Arden full-text annotated editions, journal articles, prompt books, and other reference material.

• Understanding Shakespeare

  Easily find JSTOR articles that cite a given line of a Shakespeare play. Simply navigate to the line of the play and click the number next to it to view a list of relevant articles from the JSTOR archive. Understanding Shakespeare is a collaborative project between JSTOR Labs and the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Literary Texts (7)

• American Drama, 1714-1915

  Over 700 plays by dramatists such as Thomas Paine, Edward Hitchcock, and James Lawson. Coverage: 1714-1915.

• 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.

• Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare

  Contains 11 major editions from the First Folio of 1623 to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6, 28 separate contemporary printings of individual plays and poems, selected apocrypha, and related works. Also contains more than one hundred adaptations, sequels and burlesques from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Coverage: 1591-1911.

• English Drama

  Contains 4,000 plays by 1,200 authors from the late thirteenth century to the early twentieth century. Coverage: 1280-1915.

• Shakespeare Collection

  Multiple resources for the study of Shakespeare, including criticism, the Arden full-text annotated editions, journal articles, prompt books, and other reference material.

• Teatro Español del Siglo de Oro

  A full text database containing the most important dramatic works of sixteenth and seventeenth century Spain, published in full.

• Understanding Shakespeare

  Easily find JSTOR articles that cite a given line of a Shakespeare play. Simply navigate to the line of the play and click the number next to it to view a list of relevant articles from the JSTOR archive. Understanding Shakespeare is a collaborative project between JSTOR Labs and the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Multi-Subject Databases (1)

• Academic Video Online

  Cross-searchable interface to all Alexander Street Press streaming media products. WFU access currently includes Counseling and Therapy in Video, Flimakers Library Online, Opera in Video, and Theatre in Video.

News & Current Events (2)

• ProQuest Historical Newspapers

  Contains seven newspapers back to their first issues: New York Times (1851-three years ago), Chicago Tribune (1849-1985), and Wall Street Journal (1889-1989), Christian Science Monitor (1908-2002), New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), Pittsburgh Courier (1950-2002) , Washington Post (1877-1997). More recent issues are available through other databases, such as ProQuest. Includes advertisements, illustrations, etc. as they were laid out on the original page. Coverage: 1849-three years ago.

• ProQuest Recent Newspapers

  Contains 18 newspapers with coverage beginning in the late 2000's through present with a three-month embargo. Titles include Barron's, LA Times, Newsday, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, and more.

Primary Sources (3)

• Performance Design Archive

  Performance Design Archive Online is the first comprehensive, international collection that covers all aspects of theater production design, from the 17th century through to the present day, including, scenic and set design, lighting design, sound design, costume design, makeup, and more. It includes 100,000 pages of primary and secondary resources, including sketches, photographs, technical drawings, monographs, articles, and dissertations.

• ProQuest Historical Newspapers

  Contains seven newspapers back to their first issues: New York Times (1851-three years ago), Chicago Tribune (1849-1985), and Wall Street Journal (1889-1989), Christian Science Monitor (1908-2002), New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), Pittsburgh Courier (1950-2002) , Washington Post (1877-1997). More recent issues are available through other databases, such as ProQuest. Includes advertisements, illustrations, etc. as they were laid out on the original page. Coverage: 1849-three years ago.

• RIPM

  This database includes RIPM Online Archive of Music Periodicals, RIPM e-Library of Music Periodicals, and RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals (1760-1966).

Primary Sources: Documents & Manuscripts (1)

• RISM Series A/II: Music Manuscripts after 1600

  Series A/II of the RISM project. Documents music manuscripts, printed music, works on music theory, and libretti, written after 1600, stored in libraries and archives in 31 countries. Includes bibliographic description, music incipit, provenance, and holding library.

Video & Multimedia (10)

• Academic Video Online

  Cross-searchable interface to all Alexander Street Press streaming media products. WFU access currently includes Counseling and Therapy in Video, Flimakers Library Online, Opera in Video, and Theatre in Video.

• Dance Online: Dance in Video

  Dance Online: Dance in Video provides 900 hours of video content covering the full scope of 20th and 21st century dance. The collection includes performances, documentaries, interviews, and instructional videos from the most influential performers and companies.

• Digital Theatre+

  Digital Theatre+ provides access to hundreds of theatre productions and educational resources covering English and the Performing Arts.

• DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music)

  Streaming access to CD-quality audio, complete original liner notes and essays from independent record labels and sound archives. The primary focus is the preservation and dissemination of important recordings that have been neglected by the commercial marketplace.

• 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.

• Music Online: American Music

  This streaming music database includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Includes songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more.

• Music Online: Classical Music Library

  Licensed streaming classical music from multiple labels. Includes contemporary music and women composers.

• Music Online: Opera in Video

  Streaming video of opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Multiple performances and stagings of the major operas, from Baroque to the 20th century, allow for analysis of stage design, vocal techniques, roles, and musical interpretation across time periods, opera houses, and conductors.

• Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound

  Includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of the Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels. Also includes music recorded around the African continent by Dr. Hugh Tracey for the International Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes University and material collected on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE), sponsored by the American Institute for Indian Studies.

• Theatre in Video

  Streaming video of definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries. Users can bookmark specific scenes, monologues and staging.