THE263/264: Theatre History (2022): Articles & Databases)

A guide to research for students in theatre classes, created by Librarian Maryke Barber

Books, Articles & Films

Search OneSearch (Hollins + Roa. College collections)

Google Scholar
Find articles and other scholarly material on all subjects. To link Google Scholar to library resources, click on Settings, then click on Library Links, then search for Hollins and check those boxes. To get full text, use InterLibrary Loan

International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance
More than 60,000 journal articles, books, book chapters and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theatre and performance in 126 countries.

Google Scholar
Broad coverage of scholarly material on all subjects. Not all full text, but you can find some interesting material not found elsewhere.

Dissertations Online
Graduate theses and dissertations on all topics: a great resource when you want to search beyond journals.
Historical Abstracts
Search for articles, dissertations and more on the history of the world from 1450 onward. TIP: Advanced search allows limiting by language and historical period.
America: History and Life
Excellent database for finding articles about North American history. TIP: Advanced search allows limiting by historical period.
Arts & Sciences (JSTOR)
Full text-articles from a wide range of journals in the arts and sciences. TIP: using advanced search, you can limit your search by discipline – History, Music, performing Arts etc. - or search only in the abstracts or captions of an article
Gale Literary Resources
Use for bios, book reviews and literary criticism. Contains nearly 700,000 articles and book chapters on classical and contemporary literature, searchable by author, title, subject, genre and more.
MLA (Modern Language Association)
Subject index for books, articles and websites published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. Articles from 1963 to the present. Advanced Search is recommended.
Project Muse
Good coverage of history, social theory, gender & women's studies in these full-text academic journals (arts and sciences) published by Johns Hopkins University Press.

For articles & reviews since 1980:

Factiva
A current news database, Factiva includes content from newspapers, magazines, and transcripts from television/radio news programs.

For articles & reviews before 1980:

America's Historical Newspapers
Search selected newspapers from 1690-1920.
Reader's Guide Retrospective
Readers' Guide Retrospective is a database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States. Coverage for this database includes the years 1890 through 1982