Research Guides: Dance 100: Finding Articles

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Best Bet Library Databases

Performing Arts Periodicals Database This link opens in a new window
Publication Dates: 1998-Present; some coverage 1864-1998
Includes scholarly articles, reviews, essays and biographies covering dance, film, television, theater, and other topics in performing arts.

Academic OneFile Select (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Publication Dates: 1980-Present
Includes articles from magazines, newspapers, and scholarly journals. Multidisciplinary coverage. Good place to start a research project.
ProQuest This link opens in a new window
Searches across a wide variety of types of sources including scholarly journals, magazines, historical and current newspapers, dissertations, and more. Coverage is multidisciplinary. Great place to start a research project.

Additional Resources

If you are researching a lesser-known person, performance, or topic, you may want to search one of full-text e-journals collections below:

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Provides access to articles in leading academic journals and books in the fields of humanities, social sciences and sciences.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Provides access to academic journals in the fields of humanities and social sciences.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Provides access to scholarly articles, books, conference papers, and more. Modify your Google Scholar settings to access library-provided full text.

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Research Tip: Find Text Button

The Find Text Button

Many of our databases have this button, which searches for the full-text of the article in our collections. If we don't have it electronically, look for the "Request article scan" link in the "Get It" section.