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Research Databases: Art, Music, & Theater

Off-campus access: the system will prompt you to enter your 14-digit library barcode number located on the back of your college ID/library card. No college ID or library card? Request a college ID or library card barcode number.

Articlesselect to expand list

  • Gale OneFile: Fine Arts
    (Gale) Search millions of articles about drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. Diverse resource for serious fine arts students.
  • JSTOR
    (Ithaka Harbors) Includes full-text back issues of selected peer-reviewed journals in such areas as history, statistics, sociology, literature, and economics.
  • Project MUSE
    (Johns Hopkins University Press) Full-text of 285 journals in literature, history, international/cultural studies and other humanities and social science fields.
  • Academic Search Complete 
    (EBSCO) A scholarly, multi-disciplinary database that provides full text, indexing, and abstracts, videos and images from journals, magazines, and newspapers.

Reference & E-Booksselect to expand list

  • Oxford Art Online (includes Grove Art)
    (Oxford University Press) Full-text art reference (including Grove Art) covering all the visual arts from prehistory to the present with links to 5,000 images the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), Art Images for College Teaching (AICT), and the Artists Rights Society and text from Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
  • Encyclopedia of Popular Music via Oxford Reference (LSC-Tomball)
    (Oxford University Press) Features articles on popular music genres such as jazz, country, folk, rap, reggae, techno, musicals, and world music from 1900 to the present. Also includes information on trends, styles, record labels, venues, and music festivals.
  • Credo Reference
    (Credo) Includes materials from over 650 reference books on a variety of topics in higher education, including art, business, history, languages, literature, science, criminal justice, and political science.
  • eBook Collection
    (EBSCO) E-books on a full range of topics. Visit EBSCO's instructions on how to read on a mobile device. Create a free account to download to your device.  
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  • Ebook Central
    (ProQuest) Over 100,000 ebook titles covering a full range of academic topics. General reference works are also included. Mobile-friendly site.
  • Gale eBooks
    (Gale) Explore this database of encyclopedias and reference sources within the Gale eBooks platform. For multidisciplinary research.
  • Oxford Music Online 
    (Oxford University Press) Online music reference source includes articles from the Oxford Companion to Music, Grove dictionaries of American music, jazz , opera, and musical instruments, and the Encyclopedia of Popular Music.
  • Digital Theatre+
    (Digital Theatre Plus) Go behind the scenes of theater productions worldwide with additional commentary, interviews, and production notes linked to full-length videos of plays, opera, dance, and other performances.
  •  Oxford Music Online 
    Grove Music Online is the world’s premier online music encyclopedia, offering comprehensive coverage of music, musicians, music-making, and music scholarship.

  • New Play Exchange (LSC-University Park)
    Digital library of play scripts by living authors. Does not include performance rights. Search and filter by audience level, narrative attributes and playwright demographics, length, and genre.

Video, Images, & Musicselect to expand list

  • Academic Video Online: Premium
    (Alexander Street Press) Full-length videos on various topics, documentaries, instructional materials and limited historical news reports.
  • Films on Demand
    (Films Media Group) High-quality, educational streaming video from companies such as Films for the Humanities, BBC, and PBS. 
  • Kanopy
    (Kanopy) Classic cinema, independent films, and top documentaries in streaming video. Includes Media Education Foundation Collection.
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  • Digital Theatre+
    (Digital Theatre Plus) Go behind the scenes of theater productions worldwide with additional commentary, interviews, and production notes linked to full-length videos of plays, opera, dance, and other performances.
  • Naxos Music Library (LSC-Tomball)
    (Naxos) Thousands of audio tracks from different styles and eras for online listening, plus historical background information.

Internetselect to expand list

  • Google Arts & Culture - free web 
    (Google) A collaborative project of Google and 151 acclaimed art partners from across 40 countries to include over 30,000 works of art from sculpture to architecture and drawings, all in one page.
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  • Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History - free web
    (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)  Searchable chronological, geographical, and thematic world history of art from the museum's vast collection.

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