Newspapers
Newspaper Databases
Search these databases for theater reviews, playwright interviews and related articles.
- New York Times (Historical archive) This link opens in a new windowFull text of the New York Times including article-level images. Coverage is from 1851-2017
- America's Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window1,500 U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 states.
- Seventeenth & Eighteenth Century Burney Collection Newspapers This link opens in a new windowBritish Library's collection of the newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817)--the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. Includes advertisements for theater productions.
- Times (of London) Digital Archive This link opens in a new windowArchive of the newspaper, The Times of London, from 1785-2019.
- World Newspaper Archive This link opens in a new windowLarge collection of historical newspapers (1800-1922) from the U.S. and around the world in English and foreign languages.
Indexes and Databases
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database designed specifically for academic institutions. This resource contains more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition, Academic Search Complete offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.
- Readers' Guide Abstracts This link opens in a new windowIndexes 300 popular general-interest periodicals, 1983-present.
- Readers' Guide Retrospective This link opens in a new windowIndexes 375 popular general-interest periodicals, 1890-1982.
- WorldCat This link opens in a new windowCatalog of library holdings throughout the country and world. Contains records for any type of materials: books, sound recordings, video recordings, manuscripts, etc. It is updated daily.
- Nexis Uni This link opens in a new windowNexis Uni features news, business, government, and legal sources from LexisNexis, dating back to 1790. It includes articles, broadcasts, newswires, and newspapers archives from the local to international level.
Electronic Journals
Students frequently rely on the EJC and JSTOR for the majority of their research when working on paper topics. While the two online resources do offer a large number of journal articles on a variety of topics, they do not concentrate on the dramatic arts. Please utilize both ECJ and JSTOR in conjunction with the databases listed above.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowAcademic journal articles and books: primarily in the humanities and social sciences. Each journal has a “moving wall” for article access (time lag between the most current issue and the content at JSTOR)