• Books in Miller Library:
  
  
  • Reference:
    
    
    • Online:
      
      
      • Encyclopedia Britannica
      • The Oxford Dictionary of Dance
        
        
    • Print:
      
      
      • The Complete Guide to Modern Dance
      • The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Ballet
      • The Dance Encyclopedia
      • The Dance Handbook
      • The History of Ballet and Modern Dance
      • The International Dictionary of Modern Dance
      • The International Encyclopedia of Dance
        
        
  • Books in the main collection:
    
    
    • Subject search:
      
      
    • uses Library of Congress classification system
    • Dance = GV 1580 - 1799
      
      
      • Ballet (71 subjects, 164 entries)
      • Ballet -- History (18 entries)
      • Dance (177 subjects, 407 entries)
      • Dance -- History (29 entries)
      • Modern Dance (13 subjects, 50 entries)
      • Modern Dance -- History (8 entries)
        
      • Balanchine, George (12 entries)
        
        
    • keyWord search in the title, contents, series, etc., e.g.:
      
      
      • Dance (686 entries)
      • Dance History (207 entries)
        
      • Balanchine, George (14 entries)
        
        
• Author search, e.g.:
  
  
  • Balanchine, George (1 entry)

• 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 dance
    • coverage from1985+
    • mostly full-text
      
      
  • Project MUSE
    • 250+ scholarly journals, primarily in the humanities, including dance
    • coverage from 1983+
    • mostly full-text
    
    
  • WilsonWeb
    • 3,500+ general and academic journals, including dance
    • 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: Dance
  
  
• Society of Dance History Scholars
  • excellent source of links to online resources
    
    
• Yahoo! Directory: Dance
  

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• Hacker Online
  • citation formatting examples