Database Search Tips
e.g. costume design AND Japan*
OR requires any of the specified words to appear in
each item
e.g. community theat* OR amateur theat*
NOT excludes terms not desired
e.g. stage setting NOT stage machinery
Combining ideas
e.g. theat* AND (Greece OR Rome)
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prioritize your concepts to begin your search with
the most important one
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consider additional concepts to use, if necessary, to
reduce or expand retrieval
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if the database has a thesaurus, either online or
print, check for suggested terms
Databases
Best Bets
- Quick FindDescription: A quick and easy way to search many databases and the library catalog at the same time!
- Performing Arts Database
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The database indexes more than 200 international scholarly and popular performing arts periodicals and also indexes a variety of documents such as biographcal profiles, conference papers, obituraries, interviews, discographies, reviews and events. IIPA covers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry including dance, film, television, drama, theatre, stagecraft, musical theatre, broadcast arts, circus performance, comedy, opera, puppetry, magic and more. - Theatre in Video
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Theatre in Video contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all. - MLA International Bibliography
An index to international journals, books, essay collections, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. Subject areas: literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. Coverage includes all modern national literatures.
Useful MultiDisciplinary Databases
Click here for a complete list of the Library's databases in theatre.
- Academic Search CompleteAcademic Search Complete is the comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 9,810 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
- Academic OneFile Select (Gale)
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Provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers across disciplines. The database meets research needs in subject areas including the arts and humanities, social sciences, and science and technology
