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Databases
Film & Television Literature Index
An index to film and television literature. It is a bibliographic database that provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 300 publications, and selected coverage of 300 more. The database has been designed for use by a diverse audience that includes film scholars, college students, and general viewers.
Academic
Search Premier (Full Text)
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary
database providing full text for nearly 4,700 publications,
including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed
journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic
study and offers information dating as far back as 1975.
This database is updated daily.
Infotrac Academic OneFile (Full Text) 
A source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.
Lexis-Nexis
Universe (Full Text)
Provides access to newspaper articles (including
The New York Times and The Washington Post).
Literature Resource Center (Full Text) 
Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. It covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.
MLA
Bibliography
The Modern Language Association Bibliography is the
definitive guide to criticism. Articles, books, and
chapters in books. From 1963 to the present. Updated
10 times per year.
Periodicals Archives Online (formerly Periodicals Contents Index - Full Text) (Full Text)
Index to articles from 1802 to 1995 in the humanities
and social sciences. Includes full-text to approximately
140 journals.
Project
Muse (Full Text)
Electronic access to the full text of scholarly journals
in the arts and humanities.
JSTOR
(Full Text)
Collection of full-text scholarly journals, including
the fields of literature and drama. Coverage starts
with the first issue of each journal through the early
1990's.
AccuNet/AP
Multimedia Archive
The most extensive online collection of copyright-released
multimedia material available. It contains The Associated
Press' current year's photo library and a wide selection
of images from their vast negative and print library,
dating from the 1840s. The Multimedia Archive contains
over 750,000 photos.
Arts
and Humanities Citation Index
Part of ISI's Web of Science. Indexes journals in the arts and humanities since 1990.
Updated weekly.
Dissertations & Theses: Full Text
The ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database includes over 2 million master's theses and dissertations, with over 60,000 titles added every year. It's a great resource for researchers in a wide variety of fields.
Contemporary
Authors (Full Text)
Provides complete biographical and bibliographical
information and references on more than 120,000 U.S.
and international authors.
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Print and Electronic Resources
Oxford Reference Online: Performing Arts
Search and access the full text of a suite of Oxford reference books including The Oxford Companion to American Theatre, and others.
Contemporary Fashion (Gale Virtual Reference Library) (Full Text)
Covers individual designers and fashion houses that have been active throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Informative essays mirror the many facets of the fashion world.
Drama
Criticism
REF
PN1601 D59
Drama for Students
REF PN1601 D595
New York Critic's
Reviews
REF PN1601 N4
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia
of World Drama
REF PN1625 M3 1984
Encyclopedia
of World Drama
REF PN1625 M3 1984
World Encyclopedia
of Contemporary Theatre
REF PN1861 W67 1994
Cambridge Guide to Theatre
REF PN2035 C27 1995
Oxford Companion to the
Theatre
REF PN2035 O91 1992
Dictionary of
Theatre Anthropology: The Secret Art of the Performer
REF PN2041 A57 A5313 1991
Encyclopedia
of the New York Stage
REF PN2277 N5 L365 1992
Play
Index
REF PN2289 P53
Shakespearean
Criticism
REF PR2965 S44
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Internet Resources
Gateway Sites
A
Brief Guide to Internet Resources in Theatre and Performance
Studies
Up-to-date guide by Ken McCoy at Stetson University.
Lists a broad variety of resources for theater and performance.
Also includes listserv information.
ELAC
Online TheatrePedia: Internet Theatre Library
Searchable, comprehensive site with links to both theater
production and research sites, with a subject index.
Internet
Public Library — Drama & Performance (Theater
& Stagecraft)
Librarian’s
Index to the Internet
Performing Arts Topics
Playbill
Links to all the theatre resources on the Internet,
but features professional "Broadway" programs.
Selected
Theatre Resources on the Internet
Links from the New York Public Library.
Voice
of the Shuttle
Drama, Theatre, and Performance Arts Studies.
EventJar
Cultrual and Entertainment Event Search Engine
Costumes
The
Costume Gallery
The
History of Costume
Online version of the book
by Braun & Schneider - c.1861-1880 with graphic
index.
The
Costume Page
Costuming resources online
The
Costume Site
Online sources for costumes, materials, accessories,
books, and etc.
The
Costumer's Manifesto
Over 800 web pages with about 1200 MB of image files.
Images
The
New York Public Library Picture Collection Online
A collection of 30,000 digitized images from books,
magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs,
prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923.
American
Memory
A gateway to primary source materials relating to the
history and culture of the United States. The site offers
more than 7 million digital items from more than 100
historical collections. Sponsored by the Library of
Congress.
Google
Images
One of the biggest image databases on the web.
Broadway
Internet
Broadway Database
Provides records of productions from the beginnings
of New York theatre until today.
Collections
The
EServer Drama Collection
This site contains a collection of original plays and
screenplays, criticism and links to other sites concerned
with theatre. It publishes both classic and contemporary
works.
Global Performing Arts Database
Records include authoritative, detailed, multilingual descriptions of digital images, texts, video clips, sound recordings, and complex media objects related to the performing arts around the world, plus information about related pieces, productions, performers, and creators.
Approximately 4,500 objects are currently available.
Inter-Play
A valuable source for finding plays that are not included
in standard print indexes. Covers the late 1800’s
to current.
The New Deal Stage
Part of the Library of Congress's National Digital Library program, this site offers an opportunity to view primary source documents of theatrical productions sponsored under the Works Progress Administration (WPA), Federal Theatre Project (FTP) from 1935 to 1939. Featured here are scripts, stage and costume designs, photographs, posters, and FTP administrative records.
Théâtrales
Collection of texts on the subject of the theater (in
French).
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Resources at the College
Current Print Periodicals
American Theatre
Asian Theatre Journal
Comparative Drama
Dance Chronicle: Studies in Dance & the Related
Arts
Dance Magazine-(New York)
Dance: Current Selected Research
Drama Criticism
Dramatist Guild Quarterly
Dramatists Guild Inc
Essays in Theatre
EUROMASKE
Film Comment
International Bibliography of Theatre
Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism
Latin American Theatre Review
Lighting Dimensions
Movement Theatre Quarterly
New Theatre Quarterly
Nineteenth Century Theatre
Performing Arts Journal
Plays and Players
Renaissance Drama
Restoration and 18th Century Theatre Research
Revue D'histoire Du Theatre
Sightlines (American Film & Video Association) (DISCONTINUED)
Southern Theatre
Studies in American Drama
T D R, The Drama Review
TCI
Theater (New Haven, CT.)
Theater Week
Theatre Crafts Directory
Theatre History Studies
Theatre Journal
Theatre Notebook
Theatre Research International
Theatre Survey
Theatre Symposium
Themes in Drama
Variety International Film Guide-U.S. Only
Variety. Weekly
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