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Library
Databases
The following is a list of library databases most
relevant for studying the dramatic arts. Because the
dramatic arts are so interdisciplinary, some of the best
resources are general databases. A complete list of
databases is available on the Resources by
Title page. Note: Most subscription electronic
databases are only available to the UConn
community. Here is more information about off-campus (remote)
access.
Dramatic
Arts Databases
- Theatre in Video Streamed videos of plays and documentaries. Includes hundreds of leading
playwrights, actors and directors.
- Oxford
Reference Full-text language, grammar, and subject dictionaries
and reference works. Performing arts titles include The
Oxford Dictionary of Dance, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of
Music, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera, Who's Who in
Opera, and The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. Other
topics include quotation books, history, religion, law, mythology,
folklore, literature companions, the sciences, and more. See complete
title list.
Database of information about Shakespeare's works,
including information on virtually every character from
the plays, plot summaries, familiar Shakespeare
quotations, a brief biography of Shakespeare, and a
collection of images based on nineteenth-century steel
engravings.
- World
Shakespeare Bibliography
More than 68,583 annotated entries for all important books,
articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical
productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials,
electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials
related to Shakespeare and published or produced between
1974 and mid-2000. International, scope; more than eighty
languages and representing every country in North America,
South America, and Europe, and nearly every country in
Asia, Africa, and Australasia.
Art & Design
Databases
- Art
Abstracts and Art Index Retrospective
Indexes 450 international art and art history
publications from 1929 to the present, including
English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum
bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French,
Italian, German, Japanese, Dutch, and Swedish. References paintings
that appear as illustrations in articles and includes bibliographic
citations.
Search Tips:
Selecting the
“Artist” field for searching will find
citations of reproductions of works by that artist.
For articles about the artist and his/her
work, search for the artist’s name in the "Subject"
field.
To find articles that contain illustrations, select
"Illustration" under the Physical Description menu.
- ARTstor Contains approximately
300,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology and descriptive
information, as well as software tools to enable active use of
the collections.
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AP Images Current photos
and a selection of pictures from the Associated Press's 50 million image
print and negative library. Covers virtually all major
news events photographed from the 1840s to within minutes
of an event occurring today. (Note to designers: read the
Help to find some powerful search features, such concept
or color searching. For example you could search pensive:concept or purple:hue.)
- Grove
Art Online
45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts – painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture,
decorative arts and photography – from prehistory
to the present day. Compiled over 15 years, it represents
the work of more than 6,800 scholars from around the
world writing on their own fields of study.
- Additional
databases containing images
General Article
Databases
The following resources index several arts and
humanities periodicals, and are also useful for identifying
articles about art and humanities in non-arts periodicals.
These databases include selected full-text articles.
- Academic
OneFile 1980-current; includes fulltext.
Indexes and abstracts over 6000 magazines and journals in
all fields of the sciences, social sciences, communication
sciences, humanities, and general interest; reproduces the
full text for over 3000 titles; includes newswires; full
indexing of The New York Times, Wall Street Journal,
Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Christian
Science Monitor.
- Academic Search
Premier. Scholarly journal articles and popular magazines
covering all topics. Includes full text of many articles.
- JSTOR Provides
full-text digitized backfiles of core scholarly journals in the
academic fields, including articles on dramatic or performing arts
appearing in non-dramatic arts journals.
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Project Muse
Full text articles to humanities and social sciences
journals, including Asian Theatre Journal, Camera
Obscura, Cinema Journal, Discourse, PAJ, TDR/The Drama
Review, Theater, Theatre Journal, Theatre Topics, and Wide
Angle.
Literature
Databases
-
Gale Literature Resource Center
Provides access to information in three premier literary
resources including Contemporary
Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism
Select, and the Dictionary of Literary
Biography. Useful for researching the lives and
writings of 100,000 authors in addition to critical
reactions to their work.
- MasterPlots
(Available only at UConn Libraries computers.)
Contains author biographies and mini-critiques that
sketch the theme, style, plot, and characters in over
1000 works of literature, including dramatic
works.
- MLA
Bibliography (via EbscoHost) Coverage:
1963-present.
Produced by the Modern Language Association, this
database includes references from over 6,000 journals in
the areas of literature, languages, linguistics, and
folklore. Updated ten times per year.
Databases in Other
Disciplines
- Research
Database Locator The University
of Connecticut subscribes to over 240 Web-Based,
commercially-produced research and citation databases.
Most of these resources are limited to the University of
Connecticut community.
- UConn Libraries Resources by
Subject Databases, reference books, and
more.
Key Links to Web Sites
- Digital
Librarian's Performing Arts Links
- ELAC
TheatrePedia Created by the East Los Angeles College
Theatre Arts Department.
- McCoy's
Guide to Theatre and Performance Studies Created by
Ken McCoy at Stetson University.
- Theater
Connections Compiled by Judith Van Noate, Humanities
Reference Librarian at UNC Charlotte.
- Theatre
Central Often considered the best theater resource on
the Web. Now owned and maintained by Playbill
.
- Theatre-Link.com
Detailed website with a useful index of resources.
-
Theater Studies Research Guide Yale University's
in-house guide to library theater resources. Call numbers
are for the Yale Libraries.
- Voice of the
Shuttle, specifically Drama,
Theater, and Performance Art Studies. A guide to
drama, theater, and performance art studies. Compiled by
Alan Liu at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Forbes magazine lists VoS in its Summer 2002 Best
of
the Web directory (in the category for Academic
Research).
- World
Wide Arts Resources-Theater Resources Index Links to
thousands of theater-related resources.
- WOW!
(Wading on the Web) Monthly "hotlist" of web sites
useful for theatre professionals. Emphasis upon websites
related to scene, costume, and lighting design. Link
not working as of 7/3/03.
- WWW
Virtual Library-History: Central Catalogue Useful for
establishing the proper historical context in a
theatrical performance.
- WWW Virtual
Library-Theatre and Drama Resources An exhaustive
resource for the dramatic arts.
- Yahoo!
Performing Arts
- Also see The Mayfield Quick View Guide to the
Internet: For Students of Film and Theatre. PN 1998
.A1 M39 2000 Mus Lib Ref.
Discusses browsers, citation of electronic resources, net
communcation, internships and jobs, and Internet
resources (reference, film, and theatre). Includes a
glossary.
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