A comprehensive reference work covering all aspects of the Canadian and American Theatre. It includes some 40,000 pages of major reference materials, together with records to approximately 30,000 plays, 57,000 people, 5,400 theatres, 22,000 productions, and 2,500 production companies. Each year we'll add more than 20,000 new records. The collection also includes approximately 10,500 images, playbills, postcards, scrapbooks and other resources.

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• The print version of Play Index is available for the years 1949-2002 in H/SS Reference, 2nd floor Shields Library, Z5781.P53
  

A production of The Shakespeare Quarterly, The World Shakespeare Bibliography Online provides a comprehensive annotated bibliographical record of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide between 1960 and the present. Global overage of materials in 120 languages includes books, articles, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials. (Records for books include references to book reviews).

A downloadable user guide based on screen captures is available at http://www.press.jhu.edu/references/world_shakespeare_bibliography/user_guide.pdf

Both anthropological and sociological literature (see link below to Sociological Abstracts,the last entry in this category)reflect a strong interest in the study of the performing arts as social activities. In addition, many writers view a wide range of everyday actions as performances, or as having strongly performative aspects. Classic examples are found in ethnographic studies of the rites and rituals of the life cycle and social exchange, magic, ceremonies, dance, and a number of others.

Anthropology Plus combines Anthropological Literature (Harvard University) and The Anthropological Index (Royal Anthropological Institute, UK). Extensive multi-lingual, worldwide coverage.

• Fact Sheet (http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/firstsearch/databases/dbdetails/details/AnthropologyPlus.htm)
  

This essential tool for film studies, created by the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF), indexes more than 500,000 articles from 340 of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals, dating from 1972 onward.

The database also incorporates the International Index to TV Periodicals; Treasures from the Film Archives, which identifies silent film holdings in archives around the world, and the International Directory of Film/TV Documentation Collections.

• Instructions on downloading filters and importing citations using Endnote (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/instruc/research/endnote/)
  
• MLA Directory of Periodicals (http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=davis&access=davis856&db=mlaperiod-set-c&adv=1) VPN
  Searchable listing of journals indexed
  
• Quick Reference Card (http://md1.csa.com/support/QRC.pdf)PDF
  

Sociological Abstracts, as mentioned above in the entry for Anthropology Plus, provides coverage of many topics both overlapping with or complementary to social and cultural anthropology. A focus on the central idea of performance is found not only in sociological studies of the performing arts, but also in a generalized dramaturgical perspective on social interaction, conversational analysis, the staging and accomplishment of routine patterns of action, actor-audience relations, and key topics such as the social construction or negotiation of identity. Like Anthropology Plus, Sociological Abstracts covers several thousand source publications, including periodicals, books and book chapters as well as unpublished or quasi-published items like conference presentations and dissertations. Coverage is broadly global and broadly representative of the many modern languages in which sociological literature is written.

• Sociological Abstracts [via CSA Illumina] This interface will be retired August 1, 2012 (http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=davis&access=davis856&cat=socioabs&adv=1)
  

• See also MasterFILE Premier database for popular magazines (http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=f5h)
  

Current (reformatted)full-text of the Los Angeles Times, New York Times (including the New York Times Magazine and the New York Times Book Review), and the Wall Street Journal. The reformatted plain-text display of articles does not include photos or other graphics (missing graphics are signaled by a medium designator in square brackets--e.g. [Photograph]--but does provide the caption text accompanying the excluded material.

For historical backfiles in a digital facsimile format that includes text and graphics, see ProQuest Historical Newspapers.

• Los Angeles Times, 1985 to present (http://uclibs.org/PID/11379)
  
• New York Times, 1980 to present (http://www.umi.com/pqdauto?COPT=U01EPTQmSU5UPTAmREJTPTcy)
  
• Wall Street Journal, 1984 to present (http://uclibs.org/PID/11383)
  

• New York Times 1851-2004 (http://search.proquest.com/hnpnewyorktimes/advanced) VPN
  
• The Chicago Defender 1909-1975 (http://uclibs.org/PID/119835) VPN
  
• Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005) (http://search.proquest.com/hnplasentinel/advanced) VPN
  
• Los Angeles Times 1881-1986 (http://uclibs.org/PID/10355) VPN
  
• San Francisco Chronicle 1865-1922 (http://search.proquest.com/hnpsfchronicle/advanced) VPN
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• Wall Street Journal 1889-1990 (http://uclibs.org/PID/11380) VPN
  
• Chicago Tribune, 1849-1987 (http://uclibs.org/PID/115726) VPN
  
• Washington Post 1877-1993 (http://uclibs.org/PID/115728) VPN
  
• Arizona Republican (1890-1922) (http://search.proquest.com/hnparizonarepublican/advanced) VPN
  

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Direct access to several million digital objects: film,photos, paintings, sound recordings, maps, manuscripts, books,newspapers and archival papers.

Selected from already digitized resources available in Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. French and German cultural institutions are particularly well-represented.

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