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Databases at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

All of the databases listed here are available on-site at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Click on a letter to view the databases that begin with that letter.

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Index to Jewish Periodicals
This database provides a comprehensive guide to English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in more than 160 journals devoted to Jewish affairs.

Index to Nineteenth-Century American Art Periodicals
Indexes periodical issues' entire contents: articles, art notes, illustrations, stories, poems, and advertisements. NOTE: This database is currently experiencing intermittent service outages.

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.

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.

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.

International Index to Black Periodicals

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.

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.

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.

International Research Centers Directory
This resource is available from home with a branch library card.
A directory of research institutes and scientific bureaus throughout the world.