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Interdisciplinary

Academic Search Complete
Coverage:
early 1970s - present

Academic Search Complete is a scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications, including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
Humanities International Complete
Humanities International Complete provides indexing, abstracting, and full text of journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities.

Electronic Journals

Literature

Literary Reference Center
Literary Reference Center is a comprehensive database that provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. LRC combines information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals as well as original content from EBSCO Publishing.

MLA International Bibliography (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Produced by the Modern Language Association, the MLA International Bibliography
indexes sources in literature, language & linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, rhetoric, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing & publishing. Sources include journals, monographs, working papers, proceedings, and dissertations. Coverage is from the 1920s to present.

Newspapers

Newspaper databases are a good way to find performance or film reviews. For contemporary reviews, you may want to try Lexus-Nexus Academic.

America's News (NewsBank) This link opens in a new window
A collection of full-text newspapers articles from 2004+ sources from 53 states and territories. The database includes 40 Ohio sources, such as newspapers and web news. Content is selective and includes local and regional news, including news of cultural, political, or economic significance. Ads are excluded. Covers early 1980s - present, varying coverage by title.

Ethnic Newswatch
Historical Newspapers
Historical Newspapers contains the full-text of the following newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2005), Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003), Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988), Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005), New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), Norfolk Journal and Guide (1921-2003), Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001), Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002), and The Chicago Defender (1910-1975).

Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) This link opens in a new window
A broad-based database and full text online search service that provides indexing and full text access to sources in news, business, legal research, and Reference.
Los Angeles Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers 1881-1996) This link opens in a new window
Full-text of the Los Angeles Times from 1881 to 1993.
New York Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers 1851-2017) This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text access to The New York Daily Times (1851-1857) and The New York Times (1857-2016).

Newspaper Abstracts
Coverage
1989 - Present

Items from national and regional newspapers: news articles; reviews; editorials; commentaries; editorial cartoons. Contains sources from Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Houston Post, Los Angeles Times, and others. Updated weekly.
Newspaper Source

U.S. Newsstream (Proquest) This link opens in a new window
Provides current coverage from major national newspapers including: The New York Times (1980-present), The Wall Street Journal (1984-present), Washington Post (1987-present), Los Angeles Times (1985-present), The Christian Science Monitor (1988-present), The Atlanta Journal Constitution (2001-present), The Boston Globe (1980-present), Seattle Post-Intelligencer (1990-present).

Times Digital Archive

Theatre and Dance

Asian American Drama (Alexander Street Press) (See Drama Texts Collection) This link opens in a new window
This edition of Asian American Drama contains 252 plays by 42 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. Some 50% of these plays have never been published before. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.
Black Drama (Alexander Street Press) (See Drama Texts Collection) This link opens in a new window
This edition of Black Drama, Second Edition contains approximately 1,379 plays by 222 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.

International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance
International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance is an index to journal articles, books, book articles and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theatre and performance. IBTD is a multicultural and inter-disciplinary research tool for theater students, educators and professionals.

Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction (Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new window
More than 100,000 pages of poetry, fiction, and drama written in English and Spanish by hundreds of Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latin authors working in the United States.

North American Indian Drama
North American Indian Drama contains 93 plays by 18 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.

The database also includes the Native Playwrights' Newsletter, a unique resource, containing a wealth of original essays, articles, photographs, interviews, reviews, and production information related to the plays.

North American Theatre Online (Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new window
North American Theatre Online includes:
* 40,000-plus pages of essential in-copyright reference texts in this area, licensed from major publishers, electronically formatted, semantically indexed, and cross-searchable for the first time.
* Related resources, including posters, playbills, photos, architectural images, floor plans, and other ephemera.
North American Women's Drama (Alexander Street Press) (See Drama Texts Collection) This link opens in a new window
North American Women's Drama contains 1,174 plays by 275 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.

20th Century North American Drama
This edition of Twentieth Century North American Drama contains 1,530 plays by 223 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays. More than 150 of the plays are published here for the first time, including a number by major authors.

Music

American Song
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American Song is a history database that allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past.The database includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more.

Content from African American Music is now a part of American Song, including 17,000 tracks from the original interface, plus 18,000 newly released tracks.
Naxos
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
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Indexes sources in musicology, instruments, and dance, as well as other fields as they relate to music. It corresponds to the Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale (RILM) in print.

Special Topic

Gender Studies Database
Gender Studies Database combines Women’s Studies International and Men’s Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues. GSD covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, discussion and working papers, theses & dissertations and other sources.
LGBT Life
LGBT Life provides indexing and abstract coverage of the world's literature regarding Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender issues. LGBT Life with Full Text covers LGBT-specific core periodicals, core books and reference works, with full text of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers. LGBT Life covers traditional academic, cultural, lifestyle, and regional publications plus data mined from additional periodicals.

Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts This link opens in a new window
An international abstracting service designed to meet the information needs of all those working, teaching, studying or researching into any of the main areas of women's studies. (1995- )