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Theater Databases

Theatre and Drama Premium
Includes full text plays; contextualizing material including designs, reference material, and ephemera; audio plays from L.A. Theatre Works; and filmed stage performances, documentaries, and video training materials.
New Play Exchange
New Play Exchange is a a database for finding scripts and recommendations for new plays.

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Databases for Interdisciplinary Resources

Academic Search Complete
Scholarly, multidisciplinary database containing more than 6,100 full-text journals, and indexing/abstracts for more than 10,100 journals.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.
JSTOR
Contains almost 1,000 full-text journals spanning multiple disciplines. Some journals go to back to the mid-1800's. There is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issues and the issues available in JSTOR.
MasterFILE Premier
Provides full text for more than 1,730 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues and much more.
PapersFirst
Includes citations for published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting papers.
ProceedingsFirst
An index of worldwide conference proceedings. Each record contains a list of the papers presented at each conference.
Covers 1993 to present.
ProQuest Central
A multidisciplinary database of over 11,000 titles, with over 8,000 titles in full-text. Subjects covered include business and economics, health and medical, news and world affairs, technology, social sciences and more.
Research Library
Abstracts and full text for scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers. Covers the arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's studies.
WorldCat (FirstSearch)
WorldCat lets you search the collections of libraries around the world.
WorldCat Dissertations and Theses
A comprehensive database of dissertations and theses available in OCLC member libraries. Many can be borrowed from the publishing institution through interlibrary loan (ask at the library for more information).
WorldCat.org
WorldCat.org is a public website that lets you search the holdings of thousands of libraries worldwide.

Theater: Databases, Books and Articles

Theater Databases

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Databases for Interdisciplinary Resources