LibGuides: Theatre and Performance: Articles & Databases

Recommended Databases

Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text This link opens in a new window Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text provides access to a wide variety of resources, including full-text film and television journals, international periodicals, monographs, yearbooks, conference papers and much more. Updated on a weekly basis, this database provides full text for hundreds of journals and books and cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts and selected coverage for hundreds of publications. Variety movie reviews from 1914 to present and a vast image collection from the MPTV Image Archive are also included.
Arts & Humanities Database This link opens in a new window This database features hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies. It is designed to complement the following indexes: ABM, Avery, BHA, BHI, DAAI, Index Islamicus, MLA, Philosopher's Index and RILM. Scope: Worldwide. Dates: Varies.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window Full text scholarly, multidisciplinary, database that currently includes thousands of academic journal articles, along with thousands of monographs and other materials relevant for education. Scope: Worldwide. Dates: Varies.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window Compiled by the Modern Language Association, provides nearly 2 million bibliographic records for books, book chapters, and journal articles published on modern literatures, languages, literary theory and criticism, folklore and linguistics, and more. Scope: Worldwide. Dates: 1926 to present.
New Play Exchange This link opens in a new window The world's largest digital library of scripts by living writers 22,000+ scripts by 5,500+ writers (and growing) Scope: Worldwide. Dates: Varies.
Alexander Street Video This link opens in a new window Access to a selection of feature films and documentaries from Alexander Street Video
Kanopy This link opens in a new window Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video platform for universities that offers viewers a large collection of award-winning films and documentaries. Learn more about accessing films on Kanopy
Digital Theatre Plus This link opens in a new window Access the world’s finest productions alongside Theatre, Performance and English educational resources: 450+ video and audio performances, with all-star casts - across theatre, dance, opera and music. 300+ video teaching resources, with industry leaders - including interviews, lectures, workshops and documentaries. 350+ written teaching resources, by industry leaders - including lesson plans, concise introductions, play texts, curriculum-mapped revision guides and director’s notebooks.

Academic Search Premier (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window Multidisciplinary, academic database which searches thousands of full-text journals and magazines and more than 1,000 peer-reviewed full-text journals. Contains information in nearly every area of academic study. Scope: Worldwide. Dates: Mostly 1975 to present.
Women and Social Movements in the US This link opens in a new window A resource for students and scholars of U.S. History and U.S. Womens History. This collection includes 123 document projects and an archives of over 5,100 documents organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000. Scope: United States. Dates: 1600 to 2000.
Gender Studies Database This link opens in a new window Indexes and abstracts of gender scholarship on topics including gender inequality, masculinity, postfeminism, and gender identity. Includes more than 1 million scholarly and popular sources such as professional journals, books, conference papers, working papers, theses, and more. Scope: Worldwide. Dates: 1930 to present.
Gender Watch This link opens in a new window Full text database of diverse publications focusing on gender studies. Search through scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books and NGO, government, and special reports. Gender Watch supports gay, lesbian, bisexual, family, and transgender studies, gender differences, equity, identity, and studies, femininity, evolution of the women's movement, womens studies and men's studies with a unique interdisciplinary approach. Scope: Worldwide. Dates: 1970 to present.
OmniFile Full Text This link opens in a new window A multi-disciplinary database which provides indexing, abstracts and full text articles on subjects including: art, education, humanities, law, social sciences and technology in addition to coverage of ethnic studies and women's studies and history. Scope: Worldwide. Dates: Varies
Project Muse This link opens in a new window Full-text access to articles on humanities, arts, and social science journals from more than 260 publishers. Related subjects include: literature and criticism, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, gender studies, history and political science. Scope: Worldwide. Dates: 1995 to present.
ProQuest (all databases) This link opens in a new window Searches all ProQuest databases simultaneously from one interface, includes: books, dissertations, journal articles, newspaper articles, and more - in all subjects. Scope: Worldwide. Dates: Varies.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window Broad multidisciplinary search tool which contains articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Specify Sarah Lawrence College through Library Links under Settings to see link-outs to full-text in Sarah Lawrence College databases. Scope: Worldwide. Dates: Varies.
Follow these instructions to set your Google Scholar settings for access to Sarah Lawrence College Full Text.

New York Times, ProQuest Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window Full page and article images with searchable text from 1851-2013. Digital reproductions of every page of the New York Times are available to be searched and researchers can also scan through the front pages, advertisements, editorials, obituaries, and other features of the newspaper. Searches can also be constructed for specific date ranges. Scope: Worldwide. Dates: 1851 to 2013.
New York Times This link opens in a new window Comprehensive digital coverage back to 1980 is available for this internationally renowned U.S. newspaper through the ProQuest database. The complete text of recent articles is provided in the ASCII format. The New York Times Book Review and Sunday Magazine are provided in PDF format. Scope: Worldwide. Dates: 1980 to present.
ProQuest Research Library This link opens in a new window Provides access to thousands of periodicals from one of the most inclusive general reference databases that ProQuest has to offer. Search through a diverse mix of scholarly journals, trade publications and magazines covering over 150 topics. Scope: Worldwide. Dates: Varies.
Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new window Comprehensive coverage back to 1984 is available from the world's leading financial newspaper through the ProQuest database. Scope: Worldwide. Dates: 1984 to present.
US Newsstream This link opens in a new window This database allows users to search recent U.S. news coverage in addition to newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites going back into the 1980s. Features exclusive access to exclusive access to the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune. Also includes a large collection of local and regional newspapers. Scope: United States. Dates: 1980 to present.

Oxford Bibliographies This link opens in a new window Oxford Bibliographies provides faculty and students alike with a seamless pathway to the most accurate and reliable resources for a variety of academic topics. Written and reviewed by academic experts, every article in our database is an authoritative guide to the current scholarship, containing original commentary and annotations. Oops! It looks like you have attempted to view a page that has not been configured for access. Scope: Worldwide Dates: Varies
World Shakespeare Bibliography Online This link opens in a new window A database of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide.This database contains over 120,000 annotated entries and is an essential tool for Shakespeare scholars. Scope: Worldwide. Dates: 1960 to present.
Britannica Online (Encyclopedia) This link opens in a new window Online encyclopedia with over 100,000 new and revised articles written by Nobel laureates, historians, curators, professors and other experts. See “Media Browse” for short videos and images on a wide variety of topics. Scope: Worldwide. Dates: Varies.
Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window Oxford Art Online (formerly Grove Art) allows users to access and simultaneously cross-search Grove Art Online (which provides the entire text of the Dictionary of Art), the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, the Oxford Companion to Western Art, and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Scope: Worldwide. Dates: Time periods covered: 10000-1000 BC to 21st century.
Bibliography of the History of Art This link opens in a new window Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) and Rpertoire international de la littrature de l'art (RILA) indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles. Scope: Worldwide. Dates: 1975 to 2007

Recommended Journals

Below is a small selection of journals chosen by faculty in the MFA Theatre program. Click on the title to learn more about each journal or search for issues in the library catalog.

American Drama and Theatre (JADT)	Asian Theatre Journal	Black Masks
Contemporary Theatre Review	Itz Black Theatre	Latin American Theatre Review
liminalities: a journal of performance studies	New Theatre Quarterly	PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art
TDR: The Drama Review	Theatre	Theatre Journal

Google and Academic Databases

Google, and more appropriately Google Scholar, can be valid places to search for articles and organizations. However, subject specific databases will have more advanced search options and articles. Here are some key differences between databases and Google.

	Library Databases	Google	Google Scholar
Types of Information You Can Find	Scholarly journal articles Newspaper articles Reviews Theses & dissertations Empirical evidence	Popular, commercial, educational websites Organization websites Directories Current news & events Few free journal articles & books (many academic publications are not free)	Educational websites Theses & dissertations Conference publications & presentations Scholarly journal articles (but access will be restricted to free resources, see below for how to set up SLC links)
Credibility & Review	Subject specific books and articles Evaluated for accuracy and credibility	Lack of control allows anyone to publish material Usually not evaluated for accuracy & credibility	Some resources evaluated for accuracy & credibility, but not through Google, so need to verify review process for each publication
Discovery	Database functionalities allow users to search for & find more relevant results	Less ability to search for & retrieve precise results Not releasing information on algorithms, paid products can float to the top	Less ability to search for & retrieve precise results Not releasing information on algorithms, therefore it is not known why results float to the top

Setting Up Google Scholar for Off-Campus Access to SLC Resources