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IIPA : International Index to Performing Arts Full Text (1864-present)
References, with some full text, to journal articles, chapters and reviews on nearly all aspects of the performing arts, from scholarly studies to snapshots of popular culture.

IIPA and IIMP may be searched together as Music & Performing Arts Online.
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Ausstage
Freely available gateway to the Performing Arts in Australia, including a directory of people, organisations, theatre productsions and events. Australian content
 
Australia Dancing
Freely available site providing access to both current and historical information about dance in Australia. Australian content
 
Dance on Disc
The complete catalogue of the Dance Collection of the New York Public Library on CD-rom.

Available on Library workstations from the "Additional Databases" folder on the PC Desktop.

Project Muse
Full text of peer-reviewed humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from over 60 scholarly publishers. It includes the "Theatre Journal" and "TDR: The Drama Review".
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AEM : Arts and Entertainment Management via Informit Online (1982-2000)
References to journal articles, chapters and reports on arts and entertainment management. Australian content

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APA-FT : Australian Public Affairs Full Text via Informit Online (1978-present)
Contains APAIS: Australian Public Affairs Information Service 1978 to present, which indexes articles from published material on the social sciences and humanities. It also includes full text articles 1994/1995 to present, from the top 200 journals indexed.
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ARTbibliographies Modern : ABM
References to journal articles, chapters and reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art, including performance art.
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ARTstor
A searchable repository of digital images and related data, drawn from different sources

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Dissertation & Theses Full Text
Major source for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Full text is available from 1997 to the present.

Note: It contains very large files; may be slow to download off-campus.

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Expanded Academic Index ASAP via Gale Infotrac (1980-present)
Full text and abstracts from a large number of multidisciplinary journals.
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Factiva
Full text newspaper articles and pictures of over 8,000 international newspaper and newswire publications, from mid-1980s onwards. Excellent for reviews and opinion pieces.

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Google Scholar
An academic version of the famous search engine.
 
Humanities & Social Sciences Collection via Informit e-Library (1998-present)
Informit e-Library is an e-press for Australian and Asia-Pacific information and provides access to full content from a range of journals, monographs and books, conference proceedings, research papers and reference materials. Links to individual titles will be made available from the Library online catalogue.
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IIMP : International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text (1864-present)
References, with some full text, to journal articles, chapters and reviews on nearly all aspects of the world of music, from the most scholarly studies to the latest crazes.

IIPA and IIMP may be searched together.
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JSTOR
Full text of major humanities journals. Does not include the current five years of issues.
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Literature Online
Full text resource that includes American Drama, 1714-1915 and English Drama (from the Medieval period to Oscar Wilde); as well as 208 full-text literature journals and bibliographies.
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Web of Science via ISI Web of Knowledge
Contains the Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Useful for subject and citation searching for any discipline.
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