Newspaper Databases
Search these databases for theater reviews, playwright interviews and related articles.
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New York TimesThe Historical New York Times with Index provides search capability using subject terms and topics for focused and targeted results in combination with searchable full text, full page, and article-level images. Coverage is from 1851-2011.
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America's Historical Newspapers1,500 U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 states.
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19th Century U.S. NewspapersFull text of 300 papers.
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Washington Post1877-1994
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17th & 18th Century Burney Collection NewspapersBritish 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.
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Times (of London) Digital ArchiveComplete full text page image searchable archive of The Times of London covering from 1785-2006.
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19th Century UK PeriodicalsFull text of 70 papers.
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Times of India1838-2001
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World Newspaper ArchiveLarge collection of historical newspapers (1800-1922) from the United States and around the world including collections of African Newspapers, Latin American Newspapers, Slavic and East European Newspapers, and South Asian Newspapers.
Indexes and Databases
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Academic Search CompleteA 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.
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Readers' Guide AbstractsIndexes 300 popular general-interest periodicals, 1983-present.
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Readers' Guide RetrospectiveIndexes 375 popular general-interest periodicals, 1890-1982.
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WorldCatCatalog 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.
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Nexis Uni*previously known as LexisNexis* Nexis Uni features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis, with U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790. It includes print and online journals, television and radio broadcasts, newswires, and blogs, and has local, regional, national and international newspapers with deep archives
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.
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JSTORJSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources. JSTOR helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform. Each journal has a “moving wall,” defined as a time lag between the most current issue published and the content available on JSTOR. Most archival journals have moving walls of between three and five years, but publishers may elect walls anywhere from zero to 10 years. JSTOR
