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ABES: Annotated Bibliography of English Studies
Covers secondary literature in English Studies in four main subject areas: Language and Linguistics, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, and Film Studies. more info
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AHDS (Arts & Humanities Data Service)/Performing Arts
Searchable collection of online digital resources in the performing arts, mostly from Britain. more info
American Drama
Containing more than 1,100 dramatic works from the early 18th Century up to the beginning of the twentieth, American Drama 1714–1915 reflects American dramatic writing in all its richness and diversity: plays in verse, farces, melodramas, minstrel shows, realist plays, frontier plays, temperance dialogues and a range of other genres are represented. Major dramatists featured in this release include Clyde Fitch, Augustin Daly, David Belasco, James Herne and Joaquin Miller.
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American Film Scripts Online
Current edition includes 823 authorized versions of copyrighted screenplays, formatted in the conventional screenplay format. Also includes a bibliographic and biographic database of directors and writers. Search by character, scene, race, nationality, age, subject, and year of writing, as well as by author and title. more info
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American Periodical Series Online
APS Online provides searchable full-text and page images from over 1,100 popular magazines, journals and newspapers which began publication between 1740 and 1900 with coverage through 1940. more info
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ARTbibliographies Modern
Covers twentieth-century art, design, and photography movements. more info
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Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Indexes articles and provides cited references found in over 1,130 journals in a wide variety of arts and humanities subjects. more info
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Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
Includes full-text works of Spanish-language literature, both classics and lesser known works. more info
Credo Reference
This database which includes bilingual and biographical dictionaries provides a full text collection for over 270 reference works. more info
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Dance Heritage Coalition
This site is a tutorial for in-depth dance research, focusing on primary sources available in archives and research libraries. Also provides access to finding aids for archival collections in several repositories, including New York Public Library, the Library of Congress, Ohio State University, and the San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum. more info
Dance on Disc
Published by G. K. Hall / Thomson-Gale, this CD-ROM contains approximately 245,000 bibliographic records representing holdings of the Dance Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Publisher's last update: 2004. more info
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Design and Applied Arts Index
International index to design and craft journals. more info
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Digital Gallery, NYPL
see NYPL Digital Gallery
Digital Library Collections, NYPL
see NYPL Digital Library Collections
Dissertation Abstracts
see Proquest Dissertations and Theses
Electronic access to music journals
Alphabetical list of music journals with links to full-text electronic access. more info
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emusicquest
Cross-indexes the Music-In-Print series. Searches listings of sacred choral, classical vocal, orchestral, string, woodwind, guitar, piano, band, handbell, harp, percussion and brass music in print. New entries and categories are added regularly. more info
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FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Plus
Formerly known as Film/TV Documentation Collections, FIAF Index to Film Periodicals Plus is a bibliographical resource offering coverage of hundreds of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals. more info
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Film & Television Literature Index
Film & Television Literature Index is the definitive index to film and television literature. It is a bibliographic database that provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 300 publications, and selected coverage of 300 more. more info
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Film Indexes Online
Includes Film Index International (British Film Institute) and the AFI Catalog (American Film Institute), covering all eras of filmmaking from the early silents to recent box-office hits. more info
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Film Literature Index
Film Literature Index annually indexes 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries and 200 other scholarly and popular periodicals.
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Film/TV Documentation Collections
A section of the International Film Archive database produced by the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF), which contains information about the holdings of more than 145 of the world's foremost film archives, libraries, and educational institutions. Contact information, descriptions of the collections, types of material collected, and access guidelines are provided. Updated biannually. more info
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Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media
Includes television stations, radio stations, and cable television companies in the United States and Canada. more info
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Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
The Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia is based on the text of the Academic American Encyclopedia. more info
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Grove Music Online
see Oxford Music Online
HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index)
Indexes books, articles, reviews, bibliographies, and literary works appearing in scholarly journals covering Latin America, the Caribbean, and Hispanic America. more info
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H-Net
International consortium of scholars and teachers for advancing teaching and research in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. more info
Humanities Abstracts
Indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals, including scholarly journals, in the diverse subject areas of the humanities.
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Index to Printed Music: Collections & Series
The Index to Printed Music: Collections & Series is a tool for finding individual pieces of music printed in standard scholarly editions, as it indexes each individual piece in a collection. more info
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International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance with Full Text
Contains all of the content available in International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance as well as full text for 100 periodical titles and more than 50 books & monographs. more info
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International Directory of Performing Arts Collections and Institutions
The SIBMAS International Directory of Performing Arts Collections and Institutions lists over 7000 international institutions with material relating to the performing arts (theatre, opera, music, ballet, film, circus, radio, television, cabaret, pantomime). Not only basic information about the institution is provided, but also information about collections found within the institutions. more info
International Index for the Performing Arts Full Text (IIPA)
IIPA covers the subjects of dance, film, television, drama, recorded sound,theater, stagecraft, musical theater, broadcast arts, circus performance, comedy, storytelling, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic and more. Contains over 172,013 records providing current and retrospective coverage, with citations dating back to 1864. more info
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International Index to Film Periodicals
Produced by the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) as part of the International Film Archive database, this cumulative index contains almost 230,000 citations to articles from academic and popular film journals. Full bibliographic descriptions and comprehensive subject headings are provided. more info
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International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text
Indexes over 350 and provides full text for nearly 100 international music periodicals from more than twenty countries, with over 50 of the publications indexed exclusively in IIMP. IIMP is both current and retrospective with over 30,000 records dating from 1996 to the present and other records dating as far back as 1874. more info
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International Index to Television Periodicals
Produced by the International Federation of Film Archives as part of the International Film Archive database, this index contains circa 50,000 citations on television subjects from film and television periodicals. Since 2000, however, indexing related to television has been restricted to articles appearing in film journals and periodicals; periodicals relating solely to television are no longer indexed. more info
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Internet Broadway Database
A definitive source for the facts on Broadway musicals and plays from Aristophanes to Ziegfeld. more info
Internet Movie Database
Fully-searchable database of film information. more info
Internet Resources in Dance
Selected by librarians in the Jerome Robbins Dance Division at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts more info
Internet Resources in Film
Selected by Librarians in the Billy Rose Theatre Collection and the Dance and Drama Circulating Collections at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. more info
Internet Resources in Music
Selected by librarians in the Music Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts more info
Internet Resources in Recorded Sound
Selected by librarians in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts more info
Internet Resources in Theatre
Selected by librarians in the Billy Rose Theatre Collection and in the Dance and Drama Circulating Collections at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. more info
Library of Congress Music Catalog
A cumulative bibliography of works currently cataloged by the Library of Congress and several other North American libraries, including music scores, sheet music, libretti, books about music and musicians, and sound recordings of all types. (Adapted from the print version, which it continues). more info
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Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database
An annotated bibliography of prose, poetry, film, video, and art. more info
Los Angeles Times (1881-1986)
Searchable full-text and page images from the Los Angeles Times archive. more info
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MetOpera Database
An up-to-date chronicle of every Metropolitan Opera performance since 1883 with information on performers, operas and ballets. more info
Movie Review Query Engine
Provides links to reviews of 48,000+ films, both historical and contemporary, from websites, newspapers, and magazines across the United States and Canada. more info
Music Index Online: a subject-author guide to music periodical literature
Indexes over 655 international music periodicals. more info
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Music Opera Dance and Drama in Asia, the Pacific and North America
A directory or arts organizations in North America, Asia and the Pacific. more info
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Musical America
The electronic version of Musical America. Includes a directory. more info
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Nation Archive (1865-present)
The archive contains PDF page images and searchable text for all issues of The Nation published from 1865 to the present. more info
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New York Times (1851-2006)
Searchable full-text and page images from The New York Times archive. more info
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NYPL Digital Gallery
Provides access to over 685,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.
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NYPL Digital Library Collections
Gateway to The New York Public Library’s rare and unique collections in digitized form. more info
Oxford Music Online
Oxford Music Online is a new gateway that offers users the ability to access and cross-search the vast resources of Oxford's music reference in one location. Contains the redesigned Grove Music Online, as well as The Oxford Dictionary of Music, and The Oxford Companion to Music. more info
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Performing Arts Yearbook for Europe
Directory of Performing Arts organizations in Europe, including the fields of music, dance, theatre and puppetry. Searchable by name or location. more info
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Perseus Digital Library
An online collection of textual and visual materials illustrating the Archaic and Classical Greek world. more info
Picture Collection Online, NYPL Mid-Manhattan Library
A collection of 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923. more info
Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906)
Available as part of the 19th Century Masterfile, Poole's Index contains indexing of general periodicals published in the United States from 1802 through 1906. more info
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Proquest Dissertations and Theses
Includes citations for dissertations from 1861 to those accepted as recently as last semester. Abstracts from 1980 - present. more info
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ProQuest Historical Database
Searchable full-text and page images from the Atlanta Constitution (1868-1942), the Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003), Boston Globe (1872-1926), Chicago Defender (1905-1975), Chicago Tribune (1849-1986), the Guardian & Observer (1791-2003), the Hartford Courant (1764-1984), Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005), Los Angeles Times (1881-1986), New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), New York Times (1851-2006), New York Tribune (1841-1922), Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002), the San Francisco Chronicle (1865-1922), Wall Street Journal (1889-1992), Washington Post (1877-1993), ProQuest Civil War Era database including New York Herald (1840-1865) and thousands of magazine articles published from 1740 to 1940. more info
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ProQuest Research Library
Provides articles from periodicals covering arts, business, children, education, health, humanities, law, multicultural studies, sciences, social sciences, and general interest. Full text is available for nearly two-thirds of its titles.
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Readers' Guide Retro (1890-1982)
Indexes the most popular, general-interest periodicals published in the United States from 1890 to 1982. more info
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RILM: Abstracts of Music Literature
The online version of the Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (1969-present) is a continuously updated bibliography of music literature providing broad international coverage including records in over 202 languages from 3,700 journals. more info
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RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals: 1800-1950
An index of specialized music journals, daily newspapers, articles in literary periodicals, theatrical journals and magazines, as well as engravings and lithographs in the illustrated press. more info
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RISM: International Inventory of Musical Sources after 1600
Documents the world's musical sources of manuscripts or printed music, works on music theory and libretti stored in libraries, archives, monasteries, schools and private collections. The RISM databases represent a worldwide effort to identify and describe sources of music and writings about music from the earliest times through ca. 1850. more info
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Russian National Bibliography
Bibliographic access to books, newspapers, journals, book criticism and reviews, the arts, sheet music, dissertations and maps. more info
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Shakespeare, Editions and Adaptations
Contains eleven major editions from the First Folio of 1623 to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6. more info
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SONIC: Sound Online Inventory and Catalog
Inventory and catalog of a large selection of recordings (music and spoken word, including radio) from the Recorded Sound Section of the Library of Congress more info
Televised Opera and Musical Comedy Database
This database documents more than a half-century of opera, operetta, and musical comedy telecasts produced in the United States, tracing performance programming from early live presentations on experimental TV stations, to contemporary productions released on broadcast television, various cable forms, and home video. more info
Television News Archive, Vanderbilt University
Provides abstracts of network news broadcasts. more info
The Jazz Discography
The Jazz Discography is the world's largest and most complete source of information about jazz records and jazz recording sessions. This is an online subscription service that allows subscribers to access the most up-to-date version of the Jazz Discography database. more info
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The Nation Archive, 1865-
see Nation Archive (1865-present)
Universal Database of Russian National Bibliography
Bibliographic access to books, newspapers, journals, book criticism and reviews, the arts, sheet music, dissertations and maps. more info
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Virtual Gramophone/Canadian Historical Sound Recordings
The Virtual Gramophone/Canadian Historical Sound Recordings is a multimedia Web site devoted to the first half-century of recorded sound in Canada. more info
Web of Science
Provides access to the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index. more info
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Women's Wear Daily (WWD) Online
The electronic version of the fashion industry's daily news source. more info
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World Shakespeare Bibliography
Provides annotated entries for books, articles, theatrical productions, audiovisual materials, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare. more info
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