PRINT RESOURCES

Encyclopedias

• 70 Years of the Oscar : the Official History of the Academy Awards - Ref  PN1993.5.U6 O14 1999
• Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama - Ref PN1861 .C65 2007 
• The Encyclopedia of Stage Plays into Film - Ref  PN1997.85 .T544 2001
• Encyclopedia of Television - Ref  PN1992.18 .E53 1997
• McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama - Ref. PN 1625 .M3 1984 
• The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare - Ref. PR2892 .O94 2001       
• Shakespeares after Shakespeare: An Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture - Ref. PR2880.A1 S48 2007 

Handbooks

• Oxford Companion to the American Theatre [1984] - Ref. PN 2220 .B6
• Oxford Companion to the Theatre - Ref PN2035 .O91 1983
• The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare - Ref. PR2892 .O94 2001       
• Best Plays series - PN 2266 .A2

Biographies

• Notable Names in the American Theatre - Ref. PN 2285 .N6
• Famous Actors and Actresses on the American Stage [2 vol] - Ref. PN 2285.Y6

ARTICLE DATABASES

• Academic Search Premier
  ASP provides full text of more than 4700 academic, social sciences, humanities, general science, health science, education, and multi-cultural journals.  In addition, this database offers indexing and abstracts for 8200 journals.  Full-Text and indexing go as far back as 1975.
• Humanities International Complete
  Humanities International Complete is a comprehensive database covering journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities. It provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for over 2,000 titles and contains more than 2 million records. Humanities International Complete provides citations, abstracts and some full-text for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations.
• JSTOR
  JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The journals archived in JSTOR span many disciplines. JSTOR is not a current issues database. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available.
• Art Museum Image Gallery
  Art images from major U.S. and World Museums.  Includes thumbnail, medium and large density photographs.  Note: while these images maybe downloaded they are only for "educational use only."  If you have questions contact a librarian.
• DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals
  Provides links to journals in History, Religion, Philosophy and the Sciences.  All journals are open access journals meaning their research articles are available for free; however, they are still under copyright by the author and journal publisher.
• ECO Index
  OCLC's Electronic Collections Online indexes journals, books, book reviews and dissertations in a wide variety of areas including politics, criminal justice, history, english, business, and science. Password required- in library use only- please see Reference Librarian for the password.
• Ingenta
  Completely interdisciplinary indexing and abstract database of almost 30,000 publications. 

INTERNET RESOURCES

• All-Movie Guide
• American Theater Web
• Internet Broadway Database
• Performing Arts Links (Theater Library Association)
• Performing Arts Reading Room (Library of Congress) 
• Internet Movie Database

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