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- Academic search premier (EBSCO)
    
Coverage: 1975-
"multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles."--Provider description.
Indexing and abstracting for more than 8,000 journals. Search can be limited to book reviews.
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- American drama
   
- ARTFL database
   
Provides full-text of classical French writings, including literary works, political tracts, philosophical writings, and technical treatises.
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- Asian American drama
   
Full-text, searchable database of more than 250 plays representing various ethnicities within the Asian American community. Includes related biographical,
production, and theatrical information. Selected playbills and production photographs.
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- Audio drama
  
To include more than 300 dramatic works in streaming audio from the curated archive of The L.A. Theatre Works radio theatre company and recorded specifically
for online listening. Presents classics of the Western canon, modern works by American playwrights, originally commissioned plays, and docudramas.
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- Black drama
   
Coverage: 1850-present
Contains the full text of more than 1,400 plays, written from the 1850s to the present, by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking
Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Includes information on productions, theaters, and production companies. Also included, selectively, are production photographs, as well as images of playbills and other ephemera.
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- Boston globe (ProQuest historical newspapers)
   
Coverage: 1872-1981
Provides full-page and article images with searchable full text for Boston daily globe (1872-1960) and Boston globe (1960-1981). Includes digital reproductions
providing access to every page from every available issue.
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- Broadway World.com
   
- Chicago tribune (ProQuest historical newspapers)
   
Coverage: 1849-1988
Provides full-page and article images with searchable full text for Chicago daily tribune (1849-1858), Chicago press and tribune (1858-1860), Chicago tribune
(1860-1872), Chicago daily tribune (1872-1963), and Chicago tribune (1963-1988). Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
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- Contemporary authors (see Literature resource center)
 
Provides biographical, bibliographical, and critical content on literary figures from all time periods; draws on Gale Group's Contemporary Authors, Contemporary
Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography; selected full text from Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism; includes full text of numerous literary journals and periodicals.
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- Continuum companion to twentieth century theatre
   
Coverage: Description based on print version record.
- Dance in video
  
Searchable database containing streaming video files of dance productions, documentaries, editorials, interviews, performances and editorials by influential
performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance.
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- Dictionary of literary biography (see Literature resource center)
 
Provides biographical, bibliographical, and critical content on literary figures from all time periods; draws on Gale Group's Contemporary Authors, Contemporary
Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography; selected full text from Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism; includes full text of numerous literary journals and periodicals.
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- Dissertation abstracts online (see Dissertations and theses)

- Dissertations and theses, full text
   
Coverage: 1861- (Indexing); 1980- (Abstracting dissertations), 1988- (Abstracting theses), 1997- (Full-text dissertations, where available)
Provides information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses, with subject, title, and author access to almost all American dissertations accepted
at an accredited institution since 1861. Offers full text for most dissertations (Notre Dame and other) added since 1997. Access info: Access to full text (PDF) of Notre Dame dissertations since 1997, restricted to users with valid Notre Dame NetIDs.
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- Editions and adaptations of Shakespeare (1591-1911)
   
"The complete text of eleven major editions of Shakespeare's works from the First Folio to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6, twenty four separate contemporary
printings of individual plays, selected apocrypha and related works and more than 100 adaptations, sequels, and burlesques from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries."
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Link to list of LION collections
Link to LION home page
- English drama
   
Provides full text access to the two databases English verse drama and English prose drama, containing 4,000 plays by 1,200 authors from the late 13th
to early 20th centuries. Usage info: Licensed for four concurrent users.
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Link to list of LION collections
Link to LION home page
- English short title catalogue (see ESTC : English Short Title Catalogue)
 
Coverage: Between the years 1473 and 1800
"... lists over 460,000 items published between 1473 and 1800, mainly in Britain and North America, mainly, but not exclusively, in English, from the collections
of the British Library and over 2,000 other libraries."--Publisher's website.
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- ESTC : English short title catalogue
  
Coverage: Between the years 1473 and 1800
"... lists over 460,000 items published between 1473 and 1800, mainly in Britain and North America, mainly, but not exclusively, in English, from the collections
of the British Library and over 2,000 other libraries."--Publisher's website.
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- Expanded academic ASAP
  
Coverage: 1980-
Provides indexing, abstracts, and selected full text for 3,500+ scholarly journals and general interest periodicals embracing all academic disciplines
(citations only for The New York Times). Search can be limited to book reviews.
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- Factiva
   
Successor to Dow Jones News Service, Factiva provides access to global news and business information, including newspapers, same-day newswires, company
reports, and media programs. Usage info: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users. Access info: Historically Factiva only worked with IE version 5 or higher. Since then, several other browser options have been added.
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Classroom Instruction (for training classes only)
- Film literature index
  
Coverage: 1976-2001
The FLI online database contains citations to film, television and video articles, reviews and book reviews from hundreds of periodicals, popular to scholarly.
Searchable and browsable subject headings, names, and production titles.
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- Film, Television & Theatre Collection Development Policy
 
Collection Development Policy for Film, Television & Theatre
- HathiTrust Digital Library
   
A digital repository for the nation's great research libraries that brings together the immense collections of its partner institutions. It was initially
conceived as a collaboration of the thirteen universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the University of California system, and the University of Virginia to establish a repository for those universities to archive and share their digitized collections, and quickly expanded to include additional partners with fast growing treasure of digitized collections.
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HathiTrust Frequently Asked Questions
- International index to performing arts, full text
   
Coverage: 1864-
"provides indexing and abstracts for more than 256 international periodicals ... [covering] dance, film, television, drama, theater, stagecraft, musical
theater, circus performance, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic, performance art and more." Selective full text from as early as 1864. Click on document type for book reviews.--About page.
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- Internet Broadway Database
 
The official archival database for Broadway Theater information.
- Internet Shakespeare editions
   
Includes a variety of scholarly Shakespeare-related resources, including fully annotated texts of his plays and poems, multimedia materials and records
of his plays in performance, and historical information about Shakespeare's life and the Renaissance.
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- Introduction to Theatre
 
Resources for beginning research in theatre available at Notre Dame
- Irish Playography
 
The Irish Playography is a comprehensive catalogue of new Irish plays produced since the formation of the National Theatre. Currently all plays produced
from 1950 to the present day are included. The third stage of the project 1904-1949, will be online at a future date.
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- Julian Samora Library and Archives Institute for Latino Studies
 
The Julian Samora Library at the Institute for Latino Studies at Notre Dame collects, preserves, and provides access to rare books, manuscripts, personal
papers, archives, and oral histories related to the Latino experience in the United States with a particular focus on the Midwest.
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- LexisNexis academic
  
Provides full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications, covering current news, business information, company
directories, federal and state laws, regulations, legal cases, etc.
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- LION, literature online
   
A virtual library containing more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 200+ full-text literature journals, and other key
criticism and reference resources. Usage info: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users
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- Literature resource center
   
Provides biographical, bibliographical, and critical content on literary figures from all time periods; draws on Gale Group's Contemporary Authors, Contemporary
Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography; selected full text from Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism; includes full text articles from numerous literary journals and periodicals.
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- Media History Digital Library
   
A conservation and access project for historical printed materials related to cinema, broadcasting and recorded sound.
- MLA directory of periodicals
  
Presents detailed information on more than 5,800 periodicals in the areas of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Includes editorial addresses,
phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, frequency of publication, descriptions of the periodicals' scopes, circulation figures, subscription prices and addresses, advertising information, and submission guidelines.
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- MLA international bibliography
  
Coverage: 1925-
The MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures provides citations of journal articles, books, and dissertations
published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. Coverage is international and subjects include literature, language and linguistics, literary theory, dramatic arts, folklore, and film since 1926.
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- Music index online (EBSCO)
  
Coverage: 1972-
Searchable database that indexes journal articles on classical, popular, and all styles and genres of music from more than 800 international music periodicals.
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- Naxos spoken word library
   
Online collection of classic audiobook material. Coverage includes literary classics and items with educational themes.
- New York times (ProQuest historical newspapers)
   
Coverage: 1851-three years before present
Provides full-page and article images with searchable full text for the New-York daily times (1851-1857) and the New York times (1857-2008). Includes digital
reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
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- Nineteenth century literary criticism (see Literature resource center)
 
Provides biographical, bibliographical, and critical content on literary figures from all time periods; draws on Gale Group's Contemporary Authors, Contemporary
Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography; selected full text from Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism; includes full text of numerous literary journals and periodicals.
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- North American Indian drama
   
Full text of plays by American Indian and First Nation playwrights of the 20th century, information about the plays and their production, and biographical
data. The collection represents groups across the United States and Canada , including Cherokee, Metis, Creek, Choctaw, Pembina Chippewa, Ojibway, Hawaiian/Samoan, Comanche, Cree, Navajo, Rappahannock , and others. Also includes issues of the Native playwrights' newsletter.
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- North American women's drama
   
When complete, this collection will include more than 1,500 plays written by women, along with related biographical, production, and theatrical information
spanning from the 18th century to the present.
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- Oxford encyclopedia of theatre & performance
   
"from ancient Greek theatre to the latest developments ... covers dance, opera, radio, film, television, and popular performance ... Entries range from
short definitions of terms to lengthy considerations of genres and movements, such as feminism and psychoanalytic criticism."--Publisher description.
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- PCI full text (see Periodicals archive online)
  
Full text searchable journal collection of 350+ periodicals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences (a subset of Periodicals index online). See Periodicals
index online for more extensive indexing and links to selected full text articles.
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- Periodicals archive online
   
Full text searchable journal collection of 350+ periodicals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences (a subset of Periodicals index online). See Periodicals
index online for more extensive indexing and links to selected full text articles.
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- Periodicals Archive Online e-journal collection page
  
Coverage: Beginning thru 1995.
Full text searchable journal collection of 350+ periodicals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences (a subset of Periodicals index online). See Periodicals
index online for more extensive indexing and links to selected full text articles.
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- Periodicals index online
   
Coverage: Beginning thru 1995
Index to millions of articles in over 4,500 periodicals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences published beginning 1770 or subsequently; scope is
worldwide, covering major Western languages. Complete PCI Index, including links to selected full text articles. Only the index is searchable.
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- Project Muse ebook collections
   
Coverage: 2012-2013 complete collections
A collection of scholarly books published by University Presses in the areas of humanities and social sciences.
- ProQuest digital microfilm
   
Coverage: 2008:Jan.1-
Digitized newspapers based on microfilm. Full-text articles from the Chicago tribune, New York Times (East Coast, Late ed.), Wall Street journal (Eastern
ed.), and Washington post (Final ed.). Browse to specific newspaper, year, month, day, and page to view digitized images. Access info: Click the "Select" link to choose specific newspaper title
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- ProQuest historical newspapers
  
Full text of major English-language newspapers
- Readers' guide retrospective (EBSCO)
   
Coverage: 1890-1982
Provides comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States, 1890-1982, including full coverage of
the original print volumes of Readersâ?? guide to periodical literature.
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- RILM abstracts of music literature (EBSCO)
  
Coverage: 1967-
"a comprehensive music bibliography featuring citations, abstracts, and indexes ... on traditional music, popular music, and classical music ... [B]ooks,
conference proceedings ..., journal articles, dissertations as well as internet resources, sound recordings and motion pictures are included."--EBSCO description.
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- RIPM, retrospective index to music periodicals (EBSCO)
  
Coverage: 1800-1950
Contains citations and indexing to the contents of music journals published between approximately 1800 and 1950. Usage info: Licensed for one simultaneous
user.
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- Shakespeare collection
   
Brings together full-text scholarly periodicals (including Shakespeare studies, Shakespeare bulletin, Studies in English literature, 1500-1900, Medieval
and Renaissance drama in England, Early modern literary studies), reprinted criticism, primary source material and the full-text annotated works from The Arden Shakespeare complete works.
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- Shakespeare on Film in Hesburgh Library
 
List of Shakespeare films in Hesburgh Library.
- Social theory
   
Full-text searchable books and articles by major and minor social thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
- Theatre in video
  
Contains performances of the world's leading plays and film documentaries on the subject of theater in streaming video. Includes dozens of BBC Shakespeare
productions. Some plays presented in multiple productions exemplifying various interpretations of the text, and technical and cultural differences among the presentations. Usage info: Licensed for 3 simultaneous users.
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- Tony Awards
 
The official Website of the American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards.
- Twentieth century literary criticism (see Literature resource center)
 
Provides biographical, bibliographical, and critical content on literary figures from all time periods; draws on Gale Group's Contemporary Authors, Contemporary
Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography; selected full text from Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism; includes full text of numerous literary journals and periodicals.
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- Twentieth century North American drama
   
Contains more than 1,500 full-text plays by more than 200 playwrights. Includes selected playbills, production photographs, information on related productions,
theaters, and production companies.
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- Washington post (ProQuest historical newspapers)
   
Coverage: 1877-1996
Provides full-page and article images with searchable full text for Washington post (1877-1954), Washington post and Times herald (1954-1959), Washington
post, Times herald (1959-1973), and Washington post (1974- ). Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
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- World literature online (see Alexander Street literature)
  
"... a comprehensive, cross-searchable package of collections covering literatures of place, race, and gender. ... features 14 collections and offers over
250,000 pages of poetry, short fiction, and novels, along with more than 5,000 full-text plays and film scripts."--Home page.
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- World Shakespeare bibliography online
  
Coverage: Currently covers 1962-current. Each year, coverage will move forward one year and backwards at least three years.
When complete, will provide annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions,
audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced since 1900. Each year coverage moves forward one year and backwards at least three years.
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- WorldCat
   
A worldwide union catalog created and maintained collectively by more than 9,000 OCLC member institutions. With millions of online records built from the
bibliographic and ownership information of contributing libraries, it is the largest and most comprehensive database of its kind.
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- 19th century literary criticism (see Literature resource center)
 
- 20th century literary criticism (see Literature resource center)
 
- 20th century North American drama (see Twentieth century North American drama)
  
Contains more than 1,500 full-text plays by more than 200 playwrights. Includes selected playbills, production photographs, information on related productions,
theaters, and production companies.
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