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Databases for Theatre Research
- Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowProvides full text for scholarly publications and peer-reviewed journals as well as general interest sources. Multidisciplinary. A good place to start your research.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowProvides multi-disciplinary access to scholarly journals and books. Our collection (Arts & Sciences 1-IV and VII) is available in full text. To get more search results, change the "Select an access type" menu from the default "Content I can access" to "All content." Some of this content may need to be requested from other libraries (Interlibrary Loan).
- MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new windowPremier resource for literature researchers. Indexes journals, books, and dissertations in the fields of language, literature, linguistics, and folklore. Provides access to some 5,000 journals.
- New York Times This link opens in a new windowSearch for full text newspaper articles. Good for reviews. 1980-current
Tips for Searching Databases
Multiple Key Words or Phrases: Place in separate boxes or separate by Boolean operators. Don’t string them together all on one line as you would in Google.
Put phrases in quotation marks: "theatre of the absurd" "proscenium stage" "postmodern realism"
Truncation: Add an asterisk * to the end of a term to retrieve results with multiple endings. For example: roman* will retrieve records for romantic, romanticism, romance, romantics, etc.
Boolean Operators can help you expand or narrow your search.
AND: (Beckett AND "Waiting for Godot") Narrows your search so that only records containing both search terms come back to you.
OR: (theater OR theatre) Broadens your search so that all records containing the term theater as well as all records containing the term theatre come back to you.
NOT: (Shakespeare NOT sonnets) Narrows your search so that you get records about Shakespeare but none that are about his sonnets.
SuperSearch
Off Campus Access
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