Performing Arts: Databases

Designed for academic institutions, this database provides coverage of multidisciplinary academic journals. It supports research in the key areas of academic study by providing peer-reviewed journals, full-text periodicals, reports, books, and more.

Provides full-text access to back issues (delay in coverage generally 3-5 years) of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other fields of the humanities, social sciences, and life sciences. The Library's access includes all Arts & Sciences Collections, the Life Sciences Collection, Business IV, and the Ireland Collection.

This citation database covers literature, language and linguistics, folklore, film, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included. The database also includes access to the MLA Directory of Periodicals.

Provides digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. A source of complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals with over 120 publishers currently participating.

A leading electronic database providing indexing/abstracting and full-text access to scholarly and general interest publications. It combines information from a number of online databases with subjects covering: business, law, education, computing, science, technology, engineering, arts, medicine, and religion.

Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.

A multi disciplinary database. used in the Sciences and Humanities. Use it to search across a large range of academic e-journals, e-books and conference proceedings.

PubMed is a free resource supporting the search and retrieval of biomedical and life sciences literature with the aim of improving health–both globally and personally. It does not include full-text journal articles; however, links to the full text are often present when available from other sources, such as the publisher's website or PubMed Central (PMC).

A database of movie and television information that includes directors, actors, writers, film trivia, characters, quotes, biographies, plots, photos, and movie trailers.

Discover the best of Oxford University Press's reference titles on a dynamic digital platform.

A comprehensive guide to publications on traditional, popular, and classical music from all over the world. Publications are in multiple languages and cover from 1967 to the present.

A French revue is a theatrical genre that combines music, dance, and sketches that satirizes contemporary people, current affairs, and gold literature.

Defining Gender provides access to a vast body of original British source material that will enrich the teaching and research experience of those studying history, literature, sociology and education from a gendered perspective.

The Wayback Machine is an initiative of the Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Other projects include Open Library & archive-it.org. Your use of the Wayback Machine is subject to the Internet Archive's Terms of Use.

New Zealand professional theatre & dance: reviews, news, and your views.
Contributing constructively to the continuing conversation.

Playmarket provides subscription access to over 1000 New Zealand play scripts. It also licenses these plays nationally and internationally, and provides information about playwrights and their plays published works and awards.

Full-length audio plays - drama and comedy

Theatre record reprints in full all the national drama critics' reviews of the latest productions in and out of London, with full casts and credits as well as production photographs.

Showcases the 'best Australian playwriting', and includes access to combined catalogues of Australia's leading theatrical publishers. Browseable or searchable by play; playwright; genre; cast size, age or gender.

Stageplays in a US & UK-based online database for locating and purchasing scripts of plays & musicals from all over the world. You can search for plays by genre, size, and by gender of the cast.

The leading online aggregator of movie and TV show reviews from critics, we provide fans with a comprehensive guide to what’s Fresh – and what’s Rotten – in theaters and at home.

Welcome to Screenworks – the peer-reviewed online publication of practice research in film and screen media. Screenworks is committed to real and immediate open access (OA) for the publication of screen media practice research. All of our submissions are free to access immediately from the date of publication.

IBDB provides a comprehensive database of shows produced on Broadway, including all "title page" information about each production. IBDB also offers historical information about theatres and various statistics and fun facts related to Broadway.
Information found in IBDB is derived primarily from theatre programs (in most cases from a production's opening night). Supplemental information was taken from newspaper and magazine reports, theatrical textbooks, and interviews with theatre professionals.

Driven by the belief that social and behavioral science has the power to improve society, we focus on publishing impactful research and enabling robust research methodology.

.Open access makes published academic research freely and permanently available so anyone, anywhere can read and build upon this research.

One of the largest and most authoritative collections of online journals, books, and research resources, covering life, health, social, and physical ...

Provides access to high quality films of leading British theatre productions as well as behind-the-scenes documentaries and interviews.

Provides real-time resources through recorded TV programmes, live streams and on demand videos. First-time users must register.

A streaming service that provides access to video content sourced from leading suppliers.

Alexander Street is a curated, primary-source collection, websites, and streaming media for learning and research.

Repository for selected research produced at the University of Otago. Includes Book, Book chapters, Journal Articles, Theses, Working Papers and more.

A window into the cultural, heritage and historical material within the University of Otago's Hocken Collections and Special Collections.

Special Collections contains books and manuscripts which span the earliest examples of European printing (1473) through to modern first editions and publications from the 20th and 21st centuries.