Databases

Dance

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  • An online collection of full text journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press and other university presses.

  • JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Explore a wide range of scholarly content through a powerful research and teaching platform. (Current journals are not entered into the database for two to five years.)

    * On August 1, 2024, Artstor will fully merge with JSTOR, and the Artstor platform will be retired. All Artstor content is now available on the JSTOR platform.

  • Full text database of literary criticism, and bibliographies and biographies of major writers, with links to other web resources.

  • The most multi-disciplinary and general full-text periodicals database. Contains the full text of approx. 3,500 journals, with indexing going back to the mid 1970's on some titles. Updated daily.

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  • An online collection of over 3,300 fully searchable high quality ebooks in the humanities.

  • Composed of over 2.5 million images, Artstor provides faculty and students with a comprehensive image resource in a wide array of subjects with the breadth and depth to add context and examine influences beyond the confines of your discipline.

    * On August 1, 2024, Artstor will fully merge with JSTOR, and the Artstor platform will be retired.

  • Comprehensive video resource for the study of music. Includes 200 operas and 75 dance titles.

  • Hundreds of hours of dance productions and documentaries.

  • Full-text resource for education, containing more than 1,700 full-text journals with coverage back to 1929.

  • Gale’s integrated research platform for their literary resources. It searches multiple literature databases at once with workflow tools to analyze information.

  • Resource to worldwide content on all aspects of the humanities in more than 1,450 full-text journals back to 1907.

  • Jacob’s Pillow Dance Stream is a growing collection of full-length dance videos from the Jacob’s Pillow Archives. It includes contemporary, ballet, tap, and traditional forms of dance, as well as in-depth interviews with artists and experts in the dance field.

  • Index to literary criticism and linguistic research in journals, books and dissertations worldwide from 1963 to present.

  • All of the music, dance, theater and film products from Alexander Street searchable on one platform.

  • Index to the literature on physical education and sport, including dance, fitness, biomechanics and physical therapy.