Research Guides: Arts &amp; Humanities LibGuide Template: Getting Started

Getting Started

Welcome to the _[Subject Name]_ Research Guide. This guide provides links to major databases, books, images, streaming videos, and more in your area of study. Scroll below to see most used resources for getting started on your research. Click on the tabs in the left navigation bar to see more in-depth and comprehensive resources.

[Recommended: Consider embedding a brief video that provides an overview of the guide and how to navigate it. If desired, add more text to discuss key resources in the discipline.]

[For the purposes of this template, either generic Arts & Humanities or specific Dance, Music, and Theatre subject examples have been provided. Directional text meant for the librarian will be provided in brackets, and should be removed when creating subject guides for the public.]

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Most Used Resources

[Tabbed boxed titles can be changed. Here are some options: Most Used Databases, Books/Ebooks, Core journals, Primary sources, Images/Video

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Theatre and Drama Premium (Proquest) This link opens in a new window
Theatre and Drama Premium provides access to all the subscribed Alexander St. databases in a cross-searchable format. Individual collections may be listed separately for better focus in searching. Collections include Black Drama, Asian American Drama, Drama Texts, and many others. Resources include playscripts, filmed stage performances, images, interviews, training materials.
Performing Arts Periodicals Database‎ 1864-current (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
This database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 395 international periodicals, plus full text for more than 160 of the indexed journals, the majority from the most recent ten years of each journal. It covers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry.

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For additional article databases, explore the "Find Articles" tab

Oxford Companion to American Theatre (Ebook)
Now thoroughly revised, this distinguished volume once again provides an up-to-date guide to the American stage from its beginnings to the present. Completely updated by theater professor Thomas Hischak, the volume includes playwrights, plays, actors, directors, producers, songwriters, famous playhouses, dramatic movements, and much more.

Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window
Access to over 300 reference works - in a single cross-searchable resource. Includes language, science and medicine, humanities and social sciences, and business. Select 'unlocked' and 'free' resources in availability for full access to content.

Theatre and Drama Premium (Proquest) This link opens in a new window
Theatre and Drama Premium provides access to all the subscribed Alexander St. databases in a cross-searchable format. Individual collections may be listed separately for better focus in searching. Collections include Black Drama, Asian American Drama, Drama Texts, and many others. Resources include playscripts, filmed stage performances, images, interviews, training materials.

Federal Theatre Project, Library of Congress
"This online presentation includes items selected from the Federal Theatre Project Collection at the Library of Congress. The Federal Theatre Project was the largest and most ambitious effort mounted by the Federal Government to organize and produce theater events. It was an effort of the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to provide work for unemployed professionals in the theater during the Great Depression which followed the stock market crash of October 1929."
Motley Collection of Theater and Costume Design
The Motley Collection of Theatre and Costume Design is a valuable source of documentation on the history of theatre. It is a rare collection of original materials on the theatre comprising over 5000 items from more than 150 productions in England and the United States. These materials include costume and set designs, sketches, notes, photographs, prop lists, storyboards, and swatches of fabric.

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For additional Primary Source materials, explore the "Primary Source" tab

Theatre and Drama Premium (Proquest) This link opens in a new window
Theatre and Drama Premium provides access to all the subscribed Alexander St. databases in a cross-searchable format. Individual collections may be listed separately for better focus in searching. Collections include Black Drama, Asian American Drama, Drama Texts, and many others. Resources include playscripts, filmed stage performances, images, interviews, training materials.
National Theatre Collection (Proquest) This link opens in a new window
Drawing on 10 years of NT Live broadcasts, alongside high-quality recordings never previously seen outside of the NT’s Archive, the National Theatre Collection makes this rich body of work available to students in schools, universities and libraries around the world.
Shakespeare's Globe on Screen 1 and 2 (Drama Online) This link opens in a new window
Shakespeare's Globe On Screen provides access to plays which experiment in hugely different ways with the original playing conditions of Shakespeare’s theatre. This link provides access to Shakespeare's Globe on Screen 1 (21 plays, 2008-2015) and Shakespeare's Globe on Screen 2 (9 plays, 2016-2018).

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