Theatre Studies

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Recommended 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.

JSTOR gives reliable access to full text articles, MLA Bibliography is the standard guide to literary criticism of world authors and use AustLit and Austage for Australian material.

AEM: Arts & Entertainment Management Database
Indexes published and unpublished material on arts and entertainment management.

APA-FT: Australian Public Affairs Full-Text Full Text
Provides online access to full-text articles from nearly 400 journals in the social sciences and humanities from 1995.
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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.

Gale Databases Full Text
These cover the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Includes peer-reviewed articles, ebooks and online encyclopedias.

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.

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.
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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.

Web of Science
Access scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Includes cited reference searching.
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Encyclopedias and dictionaries

Oxford Reference Online
Search Oxford dictionaries and encyclopedias listed by subject.

There are various dictionaries, encyclopedias and companions to literature, music and opera. Other 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.

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 at Call Number P938.005/BRI
Asian Theatre Journal 1984-2004, 1998- and in print at Call Number P792.095/A832
Australasian Drama Studies 1994- and in print at Call Number P792/A938
Music & Letters 1997- (1 year delay for most current issue)
Shakespeare Quarterly 1950-2002, 1988- (1 year delay for most current issue) and in print at Call Number P821.3/SHA.S

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 Journals Online Provided by the National Library, this database searches hundreds of e-journals online.
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