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- Key databases
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries
- High impact journals
- Related guides
- Web sites and Internet resources
Key databases
The databases listed below (in alphabetical order) contain thousands of journal articles that are relevant to your assignments. You can do keyword searches to find information that can be quoted in your essays.
Use Austage and AustLit for Australian material. JSTOR gives reliable access to full text articles, MLA Bibliography in the Gale databases is the standard guide to literary criticism of world authors.
AEM: Arts & Entertainment Management Database 
Indexes published and unpublished material on arts and entertainment management.
AusStage: Index of Performing Arts Events
Covers performing arts events in Australia, such as plays, music, theatre and dance.
AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource Selected Full Text
Authoritative information on Australian literature.
JSTOR Full Text
JSTOR contains the full-text of hundreds of journals across the disciplines from archaeology to zoology. Many journal backsets begin in the nineteenth or early twentieth century, however most publishers included in JSTOR have negotiated 3-5 year embargoes, so the latest issues are not included.
Literature Resource Center Full Text
The Center includes bibliographies, information, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers.
Literature Resources from Gale Full Text
Search MLA International Bibliography and Gale's literature databases at the same time. Find full-text articles, overviews, biographies and criticisms on authors and their works.
Newsbank Full Text 
Newsbank has the full-text of more than 100 newspapers from Australia and overseas.
MLA Bibliography
MLA is the standard guide to literary criticism of world authors. It also includes coverage of folklore and linguistics.
ProQuest Full Text
ProQuest has 8,000 magazines and newspapers, 30,000 theses and 4,500 market reports in full text. Other content includes Hoover’s Company Records and 25,000 working papers from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).
TVNews
Australian television news, current affairs and selected documentaries from the free-to-air networks. Macintosh users will need to download the free Windows Windows Media Components for QuickTime software to view these programs.
Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Oxford Reference Online
Search Oxford dictionaries and encyclopedias listed by subject.
(Oxford Reference Online contains various dictionaries, encyclopedias and companions to literature, music and opera. Titles include The Oxford Companion to American Theatre, The Oxford Dictionary of Dance, The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance, The Oxford Companion to the American Musical and The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre.)
Library of Congress' Performing Arts Encyclopedia http://www.loc.gov/performingarts/index.html
Assignment guides
THEA110
THEA301
Related guides
Communication & Media Research Guide
English & Literature Research Guide
European and Asian Cultures Research Guide
Music Research Guide
Web sites and Internet resources
Australian Literature
ASAL The Association for the Study of Australian Literature provides a directory of postgraduate research on the topic of Australian literature, as well as publications and a newsletter.
Australian Literature on the Internet Maintained by the National Library of Australia
Australian Literary and Historical Texts Sydney University Library's SETIS (Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service).
Theatre Studies
AHDS Performing Arts has online digital collections developed by the Arts & Humanities Data Service (UK) for music, film, television, radio, theatre and dance.
ArtsLynx International Theatre Resources includes information on hard-to-find topics such as fight direction, makeup design and mime.
Infomine's Visual & Performing Arts developed by librarians to provide links to scholarly internet resources.
McCoy's Guide Internet resources in theatre and performance studies.
Paris Review interview archives published since the 1950s, interviews with literature's major writers
Performing Arts Links including European and international websites for cinema, dance, theatre and reviews.
The Pram Factory, a history of the Australian Performing Group in Melbourne
Theatre Link Hosts internet resources, news and information, listservs, academic programs, and theatre-related goods and services for Australian performing arts.
WWW Virtual Library: Theatre and Drama A broad range of professional, academic and recreational resources about theatre and drama
High impact journals
The following theatre journals are held at UNE and have a high ranking in Journal Citation Reports and ERA's listings for Performing Arts and Creative Writing:
Annual of the British School at Athens is in print P938.005/BRI