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Featured Resources

Featured Resources

Drama Online: National Theatre Collection (Bloomsbury)
This award-winning digital library has been created as a response to the need for a high-quality online research tool for drama and literature students, professors, and teachers. It is the only resource to combine exclusively available playtext content and scholarly publications with filmed live performances, film adaptations, and audio plays.
Performing Arts Periodicals Database
Research many aspects of performing arts, including theatre, dance, film, television, stagecraft, broadcast arts, & storytelling. Full-text access to more than 130 magazines & journals, and indexes articles from 400 more. Most articles listed are post-1996.
Theatre Aotearoa
An active archive of stage productions in Aotearoa New Zealand, initiated by Theatre Studies at Otago University. Individual productions, information about scripts, writers, directors, cast, crew, and venues.
Aus Stage: Australia Live Performance Database
An online resource for researching live performance in Australia. AusStage collects and shares information about Australian live performance as an ongoing, open-access, and collaborative endeavour.
Music Periodicals Database
Explore all aspects of music from medieval chants to contemporary alternative rock, including music performance & theatre, ethnomusicology, theory, and composition. Full-text access to more than 200 magazines & journals, and indexes 600 more from across 20 countries, primarily from 1996 onwards.
Oxford Music Online
Research the history of music across a broad range of musical styles with external audio links. Includes Grove Music Online, the Oxford Dictionary of Music, and Companion to Music.

Postgraduate Information Sessions and Workshops 2023

There are Library sessions and workshops are for Postgraduate students.

Information sessions 10-11am (via Zoom) or 2-3pm (face-to-face) on Wednesdays

22 Feb; 26 Jul - Postgraduate Library Services – An introduction to Library support, recommended resources and services.
29 Mar; 30 Aug - Effective Search Strategies - Learn how to search recommended databases for relevant literature, and manage your results
26 Apr; 27 Sep - Thesis Information – For new thesis students, about preparation, copyright compliance, submitting, and depositing.
28 Jun; 25 Oct - Researcher Profiles - Building an online profile to promote your research, and yourself.

Hands-on Workshops 10-11.30am (via Zoom) or 2-3.30pm (face-to-face) on Tuesdays and Thursdays

13 Apr; 20 Jun; 22 Aug - EndNote for PC (Windows) - Use EndNote to store, group, edit and annotate references, and cite while you write
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25 May; 26 Oct - Research Data Management - Make sense of the complexity around data storage, description, re-use and archiving (face-to-face only).
30 May; 31 Oct - Getting published - Practical tips for postgraduates. Learn how to develop a publishing strategy and identify the right journals for submission.
1 Jun; 2 Nov - Impact Metrics - Understand tools that explain impact factors and ranking for what to read, and where to publish.