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A multi-disciplinary index of journal and magazine articles from 1982 to present. (Some full-text).

A multi-disciplinary database of journals, magazines, book chapters, and government reports. (Some full-text).

Book reviews, drama reviews, film reviews, and literary essays from historical sources. (Full-text).

Biographies and essays on authors of fiction, poetry, drama, journalism, and history. (Full-text).

Essays about writers, novels, short stories, plays, literary characters, literary genres, and national literatures. (Full-text).

The most comprehensive index of journals, books, and dissertations in literature. (Some full-text).

An encyclopedia of theatre, dance, opera, radio, film, television, and other performance. (Full-text).

 

Other Databases

An index to reviews of English-language books in journals and magazines. (Citations only).

A standard one-volume encyclopedia of theatre. (Full-text).

A collection of electronic books with full-text searching, bookmarks, and personal notes. (Full-text).
Free software is required: download ebrary Reader™

An Internet search engine for scholarly journals, books, preprints, and theses with links to UHD-purchased content.

An encyclopedia of dance forms, dancers, choreographers, music, and performances. (Full-text).

An index of academic journals and popular magazines on music from 1874 to present. (Some full-text).

Bibliographies of publications on history, languages, and literature. (Citations).
UHD Library subscribes only to selected content. Some content is not available at UHD.

Scholarly journals from many fields. Archives go back to 1831, but recent issues (past 3-5 years) are not included. (Full-text).
Purchase made possible by a generous donation from the Rockwell Fund.

Electronic books from academic, professional, and popular publishers. (Full-text).

An archive of the newspaper from 1980 to present. (Full-text).

A cover-to-cover archive of the newspaper from 1851 to 2003. (Full-text).

The standard one-volume encyclopedia of American theatre. (Full-text).

A short encyclopedia of dances, choreagraphers, technical terms, major works, etc. (Full-text).

An index of plays in book anthologies. Search by title, author, subject, style, genre, type of cast, or grade level. (Citations only).

Electronic journals in the humanities and the social sciences. (Full-text).

The Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. (Full-text).

Complete plays by Spanish dramatists of the 16th and 17th centuries. (Full-text).

A catalog of 58 million books, dissertations, sound recordings, and videos available in libraries. (Citations only).

 

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