Dance

A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database, with more than 5,300 full text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. Offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.

Features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 journals.

Coverage note: A "PDF Full Text" or "HTML Full Text" link indicates available full text access. TWU Libraries may not subscribe to all titles on this platform: full access is not guaranteed. If you wish to obtain a copy of something the library does not have access to, please submit an Interlibrary Loan request. Visit this page for more information on how to submit an ILL request.

(AVON) 20,000+ full video titles; 10,000+ hours of content. Transcripts available.

Dance from Alexander Street contains hundreds of hours of productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20^th and 21^st centuries, featuring ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance.

Contains full text for more than 100 journal titles and citations, plus more than 60,000 journal articles, books, book articles and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theatre and performance in 126 countries.
Includes all of the content available in the print 14 volume International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance, published by the Theatre Research Data Center (TRDC) at Brooklyn College.

Journal Storage (JSTOR) has 1,500+ full-text academic journals. Online archiving database for academic journals.

Indexes critical materials on literature, criticism, drama, languages, linguistics, and folklore. Provides access to citations from over 4,400 journals, series, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. Produced by the Modern Language Association.

Mature content. On-demand HD-quality contemporary performance films. Features full-length films and performances by some of today’s most provocative artists working in dance, theater, music and other forms that defy categorization. 

Project MUSE, a non-profit collaboration between libraries and publishers, is an online database of peer-reviewed academic journals and electronic books. Project MUSE provides access to digital humanities and social science content from over 250 university presses and scholarly societies around the world.

Readers’ Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 provides indexing of over three million articles from more than 550 leading magazines including full coverage of the 44 original print volumes of Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature. This resource offers researchers access to information about history, culture and seminal developments across nearly a century.

(AVON) Theatre from Alexander Street features performances of works by American, European, Asian, and other worldwide dramatists from the past several centuries. In addition to performances, Theatre also features dozens of documentaries and interviews about theatre, discussing the history of theatre, acting methods, pioneering dramatists and actors, and much more.

5,433 full-text e-books reviewed and recommended by scholars.

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The Complete Core Collection is the ultimate general reference resource for researchers at any level. Curated by subject-matter experts to address over 100 topics, the Complete Core Collection provides a launch pad for every lifelong learner. Complete Core Collection offers a growing list of over 1,100 titles to help answer immediate research needs and engage their curiosity.

Content – from major reference works, to multi-volume subject encyclopedias, to field guides, to scholarly handbooks, to animations and countless other award-winning sources – spans across all disciplines with something for libraries of all types.
Also included are nearly 2,000 short reference videos, more than 550,000 high-resolution art images, photographs and maps across all subject areas.

The EBSCOhost Ebook Collection provides access to full-text scholarly, reference and professional eBooks from leading university, academic and professional publishers.

155,000+ multidisciplinary ebooks (19,000+ fully DRM-free) with exclusive titles from Wiley.

800+ full text journals, 1,600 journal indexed, 200+ Reference Books.

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