• Books in Miller Library:
  
  
  • Reference:
    
    
    • Online:
      
      
      • ARTstor
      • Dictionary of Asian Mythology
      • Encyclopaedia Britannica
      • Grove Art Online
      • Grove Music Online
        
        
    • Print:
      
      
      • Cambridge Guide to World Theatre
      • Cambridge Guide to Asian Theatre
      • Cambridge Encyclopedia of Japan
      • Encyclopedia of World Theater
      • Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan
      • McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama
      • Modern World Drama; an encyclopedia
      • Reader's Encyclopedia of World Drama
      • World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre
        
      
      
• Books in the main collection:
  
  
  • Subject search:
    
    
    • uses Library of Congress classification system
    • drama = PN
      
      
    • start with major headings and then skim the subheadings, e.g.:
      
      
      • Theater -- Asia
      • Theater -- Japan (China, India, etc.)
        
      • Japanese drama (Chinese, India, etc.)
        
        
      • Kabuki (16 entries)
      • N¯o plays (Noh) (17 entries)
      • Bunraku (1 entry)
        
      
      
  • keyWord search in the title, contents, series, etc., e.g.:
    
    
    • Kabuki (23 entries)
    • N¯o plays (20 entries)
    • Bunraku (3 entries)
      
      
      
• Author search, e.g.:
  
  
  • And¯o, Tsuruo

• Books outside Miller Library:
  
  
  • Other libraries:
    
    
    • U of MD libraries
    • U of DE
    • Library of Congress
      
      
  • WorldCat
    • most distinguished database of catalogued books in the world
    • searches over 52 million records held by academic libraries worldwide
      
      
  • For books not in the library, order through Interlibrary Loan
    • free, online order form, budget 1-2 weeks

• Multidisciplinary:
  
  
  • Academic Search Premier
    • 4,500+ general and academic journals, including drama
    • coverage 1985+
    • mostly full-text
      
      
  • JSTOR
    • 440+ scholarly journals, including Asian studies
    • complete run of all journals except for the most recent 3-5 years
    • full-text
      
      
• Project MUSE
  • 250+ scholarly journals, primarily in the humanities
  • coverage from 1983+
  • mostly full-text
    
    
• WilsonWeb
  • 3,500+ general and academic journals, including drama
  • two components: OmniFile Full Text Mega; Humanities & Social Sci Retro
  • OmniFile Full Text Mega: indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text in 1994
  • Humanities & Social Sci Retro: index only, 1907-1984
  • 1,750 journals are full-text
    
  
  
• Check journal titles in Journal Finder, the library's list of full-text electronic periodicals
  
  
• For articles not in the library, order through Interlibrary Loan
  • free, online order form, budget 1-2 weeks

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• New York Times (1851-2001)
  • the complete newspaper (text, graphs, photos, etc.) in digital form

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• Google Directory: Regional > Asia > Japan > Arts and Entertainment > Traditional > Performing Arts > Theater
  
  
• Yahoo! Directory: Directory > Regional > Countries > Japan > Arts and Humanities > Performing Arts > Theater

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• Hacker Online
  • formatting examples