Library Guides: Theatre Arts: Databases

Core Databases

ERIC [ProQuest]
The world's largest database of education research. Includes bibliographic entries, full-text articles, and a thesaurus of education-related terminology that is used to tag entries in the database.
Play Index Online [EBSCO]
An index that provides the publishing information needed to locate a play in the variety of ways it is available: published as a separate title or in an anthology or collection.
Artstor
A repository of artwork and images from around the world. Includes images relating to architecture, the humanities, and social sciences.

Readers' Guide Retrospective [EBSCO]
An index of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States from 1890 to 1982. Reflects the history of 20th century America.
Web of Science [Clarivate]
A multi-database search tool combining all three Web of Science indexes (the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index).
Tip: You can use this index to find works that have cited a specific author or article.
America: History and Life [EBSCO]
An index of over 1,800 journals from 1895 to the present on the history and life of the United States and Canada. Includes citations and links to books and media reviews.
Historical Abstracts [EBSCO]
A database of citations and abstracts from more than 2,300 journals in over 40 languages on world history (excluding the United States and Canada).
Focuses on the period from the 1400s to the present, with database entries dating back to 1953 or earlier. Topics include all categories of history, from the political and cultural to the technological and scientific.