Centre College Library - Drama Databases

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Academic Search Premier: A multi-disciplinary index to periodicals that covers over 8,000 scholarly and popular periodicals, and includes full-text for more than 4,500 of these. Designed specifically for academic institutions, ASP spans most areas of study. Coverage varies, but most titles begin in the late 1980's and early 1990's.
MLA International Bibliography: The MLA bibliography is the largest and most comprehensive database covering scholarship in the modern languages, linguistics, literature, folklore, and the dramatic arts (film, radio, television, theater). MLA provides access to scholarly articles in approximately 4,000 journals and series. It also covers relevant monographs, book chapters, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies and dissertations. Coverage is from 1926 to the present.
OmniFile Full Text Mega: Collection of Wilson full text databases, including Humanities Full Text, a good resource for finding scholarly undergraduate-level journal articles. Indexing begins in 1984; full-text of selected articles in 1995.

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Arts & Humanities Citation Index: An international interdisciplinary index to the literature of the arts and humanities. Although this is a citation database, there are links to Centre's e-journal holdings to locate the full-text if available. Coverage is from 1980 to the present.
Essay and General Literature Index (OmniFile Full Text Mega): Indexes essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. Subject coverage includes criticism of literary works, drama, and film. Coverage is from 1985 to the present.
JSTOR: Full-text back files of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
NOTE: The most recent 2-5 years of the published materials are not available.
Oxford Reference Online: Performing Arts: Offers complete content of more than 125 titles from Oxford University Press. The collection includes dictionaries, encyclopedias, and reference works in more than 20 subject areas, including the performing arts.
Project Muse: Collection of full-text journals in the humanities and social sciences including coverage of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and economics.

Last updated September 16, 2008