Reference Sources Online
Don't forget to check the print reference sections in the Greenfield and Music Libraries.
African American Music Reference -- click for info
American Film Scripts Online -- click for info
Includes authoritative versions of feature films that have won a major award and have historical or sociological significance. Provides access to the full-text of the script at the scene or character level and the means to view scenes in all scripts by subject.
American Memory from the Library of Congress -- click for info
Provides free online access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. Materials from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America.
Asian American Drama -- click for info
Contains over 250 full-text plays, as well as related biographical, production, and theatrical information representing the various ethnicities within the Asian American community: writers of Japanese, Filipino, Vietnamese, and Chinese descent, as well as Hawaiian, Indian, Thai, Korean, Persian, and Malaysian ancestry. The collection begins in the late nineteenth century and continues to the writings of contemporary playwrights.
Black Drama: 1850 to Present -- click for info
Contains over 1,200 full-text plays, as well as related biographical, production, and theatrical information, written from the 1850s to the present, by playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries.
Classical Music Reference Library -- click for info
Classical Scores Library -- click for info
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms -- click for info
For description, see OXFORD ART ONLINE
Daily Life America -- click for info
Includes full-text information from reference works, primary documents, illustrations, and maps related to the day-to-day lives of average Americans past and present.
Design Profiles -- click for info
full-text information on more than 11,000 designers & design organizations influential in the 20th century.
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics -- click for info
For description, see OXFORD ART ONLINE
Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment -- click for info
- 700 full-text articles by leading scholars
- coverage of the Enlightenment extends from the rise of Descartes' disciples in 1670 to the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1815
- includes not only Western Europe but also North America, Brazil, and Iberian, Russian, Jewish, and Eastern European cultures
- signed articles with extensive bibliographies
- information on how-to-cite at the end of each entry
- published by Oxford University Press
- edited by Alan Charles Kors, Professor of History since 1968 at the University of Pennsylvania
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You may either BROWSE contents or TYPE a search term in the box.
Entries have 'see-also' links to related information.
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages -- click for info
- 3,000 full-text articles by leading scholars
- coverage on all aspects of the period from the 5th to the 15th Century
- explores art, architecture, religion, law, science, language, philosophy, and theology, as well as cultural, religious, intellectual, social and political history
- signed articles with extensive bibliographies
- information on how-to-cite at the end of each entry
- published by Oxford University Press
- edited by Andre Vauchez, Director of the French School in Rome
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You may either BROWSE contents or TYPE a search term in the box.
Entries have 'see-also' links to related information.
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online -- click for info
Grove Art Online -- click for info
For description, see OXFORD ART ONLINE
Grove Music Online -- click for info
For description, see OXFORD MUSIC ONLINE
International Encyclopedia of the Dance -- click for info
- 2,000 full-text articles by leading scholars
- coverage includes theatrical, ritual, dance-drama, folk, traditional, ethnic, and social dance
- cultural and national overviews are accompanied by entries on dance forms, music and costumes, performances, and biographies of dancers and choreographers
- signed articles with extensive bibliographies
- information on how-to-cite at the end of each entry
- published by Oxford University Press
- edited by Selma Jeanne Cohen
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You may either BROWSE contents or TYPE a search term in the box.
Entries have 'see-also' links to related information.
Latino Literature -- click for info
Contains full-text poetry, fiction and drama written in English and Spanish by Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican and other Latin writers working in the United States. The vast majority of the materials are from the Chicano Renaissance to the present. About 30% of the database is previously unpublished or rare materials.
Material Connexion -- click for info
- database of over 1400 new raw materials, processes and products
- drawn from a large spectrum of industries
- results include thumbnail images
- can search by product name, application, country, etc.
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Searching is limited to one field at a time; for e.g., you cannot search upholstery in the United States. However, you can pull up all upholstery results and limit by country.
Music Online (Alexander Street Press) -- click for info
Music Online provides a single place to search the entire suite of Alexander Street Press music products that UArts Libraries subscribes to. Music Online can cross-search any combination of these databases:
- African American Music Reference
- American Song
- Classical Music Library
- Classical Music Reference Library
- Classical Scores Library
- Contemporary World Music
- Dance in Video
- The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
- Opera in Video
North American Theater Online PLUS -- click for info
Includes full-text information on all aspects of Canadian and American theatre: people, plays, characters, companies, theatres, awards, etc.. Records and full-text plays are included, as well as many reference sources in their entirety.
North American Women's Drama -- click for info
Contains over 1,500 full-text plays by more than 300 playwrights, as well as related biographical, production, and theatrical information. The collection spans the colonial times to the present.
Oxford Art Online -- click for info
- the most comprehensive online reference resource for visual arts
- continually updated worldwide coverage from prehistory to the present day
- includes: painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts, photography
- signed articles with bibliographies
- includes Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
- image search includes 5,000 images from MOMA, the Met, AICT, and The Artists Rights Society; over 40,000 images from selected gallery and museum websites link to subject entries
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If you are looking for images, note that the IMAGE SEARCH on the first screen includes only selected images; for more images, locate the text information on your topic, and click on the IMAGES tab on this screen to get related images
The Oxford Companion to Music -- click for info
For description, see OXFORD MUSIC ONLINE
The Oxford Companion to Western Art -- click for info
For description, see OXFORD ART ONLINE
The Oxford Dictionary of Music -- click for info
For description, see OXFORD MUSIC ONLINE
The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance -- click for info
- 4,000 full-text entries nearly half biographical
- coverage on all aspects of the Renaissance in 14th to 17th Century Europe
- includes comprehensive coverage of the art, literature, science, culture, philosophy, religion, economics, history, and conflict of the period
- most entries contain bibliographies
- information on how-to-cite at the end of each entry
- edited by Gordon Campbell, Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Leicester
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Entries have 'see-also' links to related information.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation -- click for info
- 1,200 full-text articles by leading scholars
- definitive source for information about the entire range of religious and social changes that altered Europe in the 16th Century
- explores church polity, theology, developments in politics, economics, demographics, art and literature
- signed articles with extensive bibliographies
- information on how-to-cite at the end of each entry
- edited by Hans J. Hillerbrand, Professor of Religion at Duke University
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Entries have 'see-also' links to related information.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance -- click for info
- 4,300 full-text articles by specialist contributors
- coverage extends from ancient Greek theatre to the latest developments
- includes dance, opera, radio, film, television, and popular performance, including carnivals, circus, and public executions
- signed articles with bibliographies
- information on how-to-cite at the end of each entry
- edited by Dennis Kennedy, Samuel Beckett Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies, and head of the School of Drama, at Trinity College
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You may either BROWSE contents or TYPE a search term in the box.
Entries have 'see-also' links to related information.
Oxford Music Online -- click for info
- extensive online music reference resource
- continually updated worldwide coverage
- signed articles, selected bibliographies
- includes Grove Music Online, The Oxford Companion to Music, and The Oxford Dictionary of Music
- music timelines and topical guides provided
- articles link to related content
Play Index -- click for info
- over 30,000 plays and 500 monologues written or translated into English
- coverage extends from ancient Greek theatre to the present
- search for plays by title, author, subject (sisters, culture conflict, marriage), style (symbolism, experimental theater), genre (comedy, melodrama, musical), cast type
- provides the full publication details needed to locate the play in its published manifestations including plays published as single volumes and also plays in anthologies and collections
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To find printed plays, either select 'search for a book' on the main search screen or choose link 'Find this play in a book' in the Master record.
Easy to get LOST among citations: use 'Master record' link to return to your search.
Twentieth Century North American Drama -- click for info
Will contain over 2,000 full-text plays by more than 300 playwrights, as well as related biographical, production, and theatrical information. The collection spans the late 1800s to the present. Many of the works are rare, hard-to-find, or out of print.