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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database. Academic Search Complete has 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 9,810 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
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Fine Arts (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Gale OneFile: Fine Arts is a periodical database that places articles in the hands of serious students of drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. databases such as the Wilson Art Index and the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) index are available in full text. Exclusive features, including Topic Finder, InterLink, and a mobile-optimized interface, support and enhance the search experience.
Literary Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Literary Reference Center features an expansive collection of author biographies, plot summaries and work overviews, full-text essays from leading publishers, literary reference books and monographs, cover-to-cover full text for literary magazines and journals, book reviews from the most prestigious publications, poems from hundreds of sources, short stories, classic texts, author interviews, and much more.
•More than 36,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews
•Nearly 80,000 articles/essays of literary criticism
•More than 250,000 author biographies
•More than 460 literary journals
•Nearly 900,000 book reviews
•More than 98,000 classic and contemporary poems
•More than 26,000 classic and contemporary short stories
•More than 9,600 author interviews
•More than 7,400 classic novels

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MasterFILE Complete This link opens in a new window
MasterFILE Complete provides full-text periodicals covering an extensive range of subject areas including business, health, education, fitness, sports and leisure, personal finance, general science, multicultural issues, DIY, and fashion.
This database also contains full text for more than 870 reference books, 73,000 primary source documents, 70,000 Associated Press videos, and an Image Collection of 1.6 million photos, maps & flags. MasterFILE Complete now offers PDF backfiles (as far back as 1975) for key publications including American Libraries, Foreign Affairs, History Today, Judaism, Library Journal, National Review, Saturday Evening Post, etc.

American Theatre
Articles, commentary, review articles, theatre reviews on all aspects of national theatre.
Comparative Drama
Applies contemporary theory and methodology to all aspects of culture 1660-1800, including literature, history, fine arts, science, history of ideas, and popular culture.
Directory of Open Access Journals
The DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) was launched in 2003 with 300 open access journals. Today, this independent database contains over 15 000 peer-reviewed open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities. Open access journals from all countries and in all languages are welcome to apply for inclusion.
JSTORE Open Access
JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, eBooks, and primary sources. This database includes content across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The library does not subscribe to JSTOR, this content is accessible through open access.
Modern Drama
Articles, essays and book reviews on modern drama published by the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, University of Toronto. A special issue is published annually.
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Addresses various issues in Romantic literature studies.
Stage Directions
Inspiring production ideas, solutions to your everyday theater dilemmas, as well as exciting book, CD and play reviews.
Studies in Musical Theatre
Considers areas of live performance that use vocal and instrumental music in conjunction with theatrical performance as a principal part of their expressive language.
Theatre History Studies
Presents critical, analytical, and descriptive articles on all aspects of theatre history since 1981.
Theatre Notebook
Theatre Notebook is a journal of the history and technique of the British theatre. It interprets theatre widely covering theatrical activities inside and outside theatre buildings, professional and amateur theatre, the business of theatre, stage design, the history of theatre buildings, acting technique, and theatre outside the British Isles that relates directly to the history and technique of British theatre.

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