Databases/Indexes for Theatre

For a comprehensive list and off-campus access, go to the Hunter College Libraries Home Page and link to Databases (http://library.hunter.cuny.edu/databases).

Scholarly Sources

Popular & Secondary Sources

Electronic Texts

 

 

 

Scholarly Sources: articles in journals or books or primary sources

MLA Modern Language Association Bibliography                                              Full Text
    Index to literary criticism and linguistic research in journals, books and dissertations worldwide
    from 1963 to present.

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)                                                               Full Text
    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.

Humanities Abstracts (1984 - present)
    Index to English-language periodicals in the humanities, including art, communications, dance,
    film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism, literature, music, performing arts, philosophy
    and religion.

Project Muse                                                                                                    Full Text
    An online collection of full text journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press and other
    university presses.

Dissertation Abstracts
    Abstracts of dissertations and theses from institutions in North America and Europe.

Papers First
    Index of papers presented at meetings worldwide.

Proceedings First
    Index of worldwide conference proceedings.

Essay and General Literature Index  
    An index to essays and articles in collections and miscellaneous works from 1985 to present.
    Previous years are available in print at Reference, 4th floor, Main Library

WorldCat
    Bibliographic catalog of books, periodicals, cd-roms, videos, archival materials and photographs
    published worldwide.

Popular & Secondary Sources: magazines or newspapers or reference sources

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)                                                               Full Text
    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.

InfoTrac Literature Resource Center/MLA                                                 Full Text
    Full text database of literary criticism, and bibliographies and biographies of major writers, with
    links to other web resources.

Twayne's Author Series                                                                                 Full Text


Readers Guide Abstracts (1983 - present)
    Comprehensive general index to popular general-interest periodicals published in the United
    States and Canada.

Readers Guide Retrospective
    Comprehensive general index to popular general-interest periodicals published in the United 
    States and Canada.

Lexis/Nexis                                                                                                   Full Text
    Full text database of newspapers and other news sources; legal information including U.S. Code,
    state laws and law reviews; business news and company financial information; medical abstracts,
    biographical information and country and state profiles.

Ethnic Newswatch                                                                                        Full Text
    Full-text of American newspapers and magazines from the ethnic, minority and Native press.
    Available in both English and Spanish.

Britannica Online                                                                                        Full Text
    The electronic version of the Encyclopedia Britannica, with web links.

American National Biography                                                                   Full Text
    Full-text biographical information of over 17,500 notable American men and women who are no
    longer living. Updated quarterly, illustrated, with links to other web resources.

Biography Resource Center                                                                      Full Text
    Full text biographies on approx. 220,000 people from published biographical reference works
    and magazines, with web links.

Biography & Genealogy Master Index
     An index to reference works containing multiple biographies. It does not index biographies in
    periodicals or full-length books.

Biography Index (1983 - present)
    An index to biographical material in periodicals and books beginning with 1984.  Previous years
    are available in print at Reference, 4th floor, Main Library.

Book Review Digest (1983 - present)
    Index to book reviews in periodicals from 1983 to present. Includes some full-text, some
    abstracts and some excerpts.  Previous years are available in print at Reference, 4th floor, Main
    Library

Electronic Texts: e-journals and e-books and CD-ROM databases

Electronic Journals
    Link to the Hunter College Libraries Home Page list of available e-journals

JSTOR
    Full text of scholarly journals in arts and science, business and economics, language and literature,
    humanities, and social sciences. Current journals are not entered into the database for 2 to 5
    years. Searchable by topic or by journal name.

NetLibrary
    A selected collection of full-text electronic books. Netlibrary requires each user to register (on
    campus) before checking out titles.

Black Studies on Disc
    The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture CD-ROM database available at
    Reference, 4th floor, Main Library.

WordCruncher
    Texts of literature with textual analysis program on CD-ROM available at Reference, 4th floor,
    Main Library.

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