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Databases: Drama

 

Alphabetical:

  • Academic Search Premier
    • 4,500+ general and academic journals, including drama
    • coverage from 1985+
    • mostly full-text

  • Arts and Humanities Citation Index
    • indexes leading arts and humanities journals
    • indexes articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters, & reviews
    • over 1,300+ sources
    • mostly citation; some full-text
    • coverage from 1980+

  • Black Drama - 1850 to the Present
    • full-text of 1,200 plays written by more than 100 from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries
    • each play is extensively and deeply indexed, allowing both keyword and multi-fielded searching
    • plays are accompanied by reference materials, significant ancillary information, a rich performance database, and images
    • collection includes musical comedies, domestic dramas, folk dramas, history plays, anti-slavery plays, one-act plays, and other works

  • JSTOR
    • 440+ prestigious scholarly journals, including drama
    • complete run of all journals except for the most recent 3-5 years
    • full-text

  • Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography
    • the professional index in literature, language, linguistics, and folklore
    • indexes books, journals, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies
    • citation-only
    • coverage from 1963+

  • Project MUSE
    • 250+ scholarly journals, primarily in the humanities
    • mostly full-text
    • coverage from 1983+

  • 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

  • World Shakespeare Bibliography
    • the major index for all things Shakespearean: books, journals, films, recordings
    • citation-only
    • coverage from 1969+
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