Theatre Subject Guide

Primary

  • Art Abstracts
    • Provides access to a wide range of bibliographies, notices of competitions and awards, reports of conferences, exhibition listings, review articles, interviews, and film reviews.
  • FirstSearch
    • Large collection of databases, some are full text. Search by journal title to see which database indexes your specific title.
  • Humanities Abstracts
    • Abstracts feature articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction (including dramas and poems), and reviews of plays and television and radio programs.
  • MLA International Bibliography
    • Provides over one million citations for items from journals and series published worldwide.

Secondary

  • Project Muse (for on-campus users)
    • Provides online, worldwide, institutional subscription access to the full-text of about 200 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. (See Journal Titles list.)
  • eBooks Michigan
    • A collection of almost 18,000 eBooks available to Michigan libraries. The state "owns" 1 copy of each book and the checkout time is 6 hours. You must create a free account before accessing the titles.
  • FirstSearch
    • Large collection of databases, some are full text. Search by journal title to see which database indexes your specific title.
  • Electronic Collections Online (ECO)
    • Lets you view abstracts and full-text articles from journals to which your library or institution subscribes.
  • Wilson Select Plus
    • Provides indexed and abstracted records with accompanying full-text periodical articles, many of which are linked to citations in other FirstSearch databases.
  • WorldCat
    • Contains all the records cataloged by OCLC member libraries.
  • INFOTRAC Databases
    • These include the following:
      • Ancestry Plus
      • Computer Database
      • Expanded Academic ASAP
      • General BusinessFile ASAP
      • General Reference Center Gold
      • Health & Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module
      • Health Reference Center Academic
      • InfoTrac 150 Full Text Custom Newspapers (including the Grand Rapids Press)
      • InfoTrac OneFile
      • Junior Edition
      • Kids InfoBits
      • Kid's Edition - K-12
      • LegalTrac
      • Michigan Newspapers
      • New York Times
      • Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
      • Professional Collection
      • and Student Edition
  • Expanded Academic ASAP
    • An InfoTrac database filled with full text and images for a broad collection of academic disciplines.
  • FACTS.com
    • Includes:
      • Facts On File World News Digest
      • Issues and Controversies On File
      • Reuters On-Line News Service (last 2 weeks)
  • General Reference Center Gold
    • Full-text general database through InfoTrac (1980- ). (See Journal Titles list.)
  • InfoTrac OneFile
    • A broad database covering a wide range of topics with millions of full text articles.
  • Opposing Viewpoints
    • Overviews, full-text articles, statistics, and resources on social issues.
  • RefWorks
    • A personal database that allows you to download references from online databases and then formats them for use in bibliographies and research papers. You will need to create an individual account the first time you use this service. Click here for Help Using RefWorks.