Academic Search Premier is a giant database that covers more than 8,000 journals, 85% of which are peer-reviewed and over 55% are full text, and full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. It covers a wide variety of disciplines.
Play Index helps you locate a copy of a play. It indexes "30,000 plays published individually or in collections from 1949 to the present." It covers plays "written in or translated into English, including one-act plays, pageants, plays in verse, radio and television plays, and classic drama."
Each play citation includes an annotation that
* summarizes the plot;
* indicates any musical requirements: chorus, singing, dancing, etc.;
* indicates number of sets, noting whether scenery requirements are interior or exterior.
You can "search for plays by title; author; subject . . . ; style (symbolism, experimental theater); genre (comedy, melodrama, musical); cast type; and more.
Theatre in Video contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all.
Academic OneFile offers articles from a variety of disciplines, including the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, theology, and literature. Articles come from a variety of sources, including newspapers, reference sources, and academic journals. Includes full-text coverage of the New York times from 1995 to present.
JSTOR provides the searchable full text of the backfiles (at least 3 years old) of many of the core research and academic society published journals in almost all subject areas, but its emphasis is in the humanities and social sciences. The majority of JSTOR’s content is academic and peer-reviewed.
MLA International Bibliography indexes articles, books, and other scholarship related to literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Coverage is from 1926 to the present.
Opera in Video will contain 250 of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world’s best performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work’s importance to the operatic canon.
