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1. International Index to the Performing Arts Full Text - ProQuest (Chadwyck-Healey)
A performing arts journal resource with over 465,000 indexed articles, plus detailed abstracts and full text from 1864 to the present, covering film, theatre, and dance. More info
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU.
2. Theater in Video - Alexander Street Press
Contains performances of the world's leading plays and more than 100 film documentaries.
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
3. Play Index - WilsonWeb
Covers a wide range of plays written in or translated into English, including one-act plays, pageants, plays in verse, puppet performances, radio and television plays, and classic drama. More info
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Alumni.
4. Alexander Street Literature (formerly World Literature Online) - Alexander Street Press
Collection of databases containing literature and primary texts in postcolonial, black, gender, and regional literatures. It contains more than 5,500 plays and more than 250,000 pages of poetry, fiction, and essays from Africa and its Diaspora, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, and other regions.
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
5. North American Theatre Online - Alexander Street Press
Provides in-depth detail records for more than 10,000 plays, including many previously unpublished works by major authors; more than 1,000 playbills, posters, photographs, and related theatrical ephemera; and 40,000-plus pages of in-copyright reference texts.
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.


Also recommended

1. American Film Scripts Online - Alexander Street Press
Provides accurate and authorized versions of 1008 copyrighted screenplays. Titles include Bringing Up Baby, Network, In the Company of Men, Drugstore Cowboy, Marty, Your Friends and Neighbors, The Thomas Crown Affair, Suspicion, The Shawshank Redemption, Fort Apache, Notorious, and The Last Detail. More info
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2. American Mosaic - Greenwood Publishing
EbooksRecommended for younger studentsProvides access to two multicultural resources, The African American Experience and The Latino American Experience, with ebooks, interviews, maps, images, audio, music files, and timelines. Teacher resources available. More info
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU, Broward, and Alumni.
3. Arts & Humanities Citation Index - Thomson (Web of Knowledge)
Provides abstracts, cited references, times cited, and links to full text when available for articles in the arts and humanities (1975 to present). Part of Web of Science.
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU.
4. Asian American Drama - Alexander Street Press
This edition of Asian American Drama contains 252 plays by 42 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. More info
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
5. Black Drama - Alexander Street Press
This edition of Black Drama contains approximately 1200 plays by 201 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays. More info
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
6. Classical Music Library - Alexander Street Press
50,000-plus tracks from leading labels. Recordings include music written from the earliest times (e.g. Gregorian Chant) to the present, including many contemporary composers. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera.
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
7. Daily Life Online - Greenwood Publishing
Recommended for K-12Combines Daily Life through History, Daily Life Premium, and World Folklore and Folklife databases to provide full text information, maps, images, website links, etc. on folklore, cultures, and customs of peoples around the world from ancient times to the present. Teacher resources available.
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU, Broward, and Alumni.
8. Dance in Video - Alexander Street Press
Dance productions and documentaries cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance. This release includes 109 videos, equalling 165 hours.
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
9. Humanities Full Text - WilsonWeb
Citations, abstracts, and selected full-text articles from humanities publications from 1984 to present. For earlier citations, see Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective. More info
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Alumni.
10. Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective - WilsonWeb
Provides citations for articles in the humanities and social sciences published 1907-1984. For more recent coverage, see Humanities Full Text and Social Sciences Full Text.
NOTE: Limited to one simultaneous user. If you are unable to access, please try again later.
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Alumni.
11. International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text - ProQuest (Chadwyck-Healey)
IIMP is a music journal resource with more than 720,000 indexed articles, plus detailed abstracts and full text from 1874 to the present, covering the scholarly to the popular. More info
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU.
12. JSTOR - JSTOR
Full-text articles from scholarly journals are available (from Volume 1 to issues published 2-5 years ago) in the arts, business, humanities, literature, social sciences, general science, mathematics and statistics. More info
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Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU.
13. Latino Literature - Alexander Street Press
The largest collection available of Latino literature, with over 100,000 pages of fiction and poetry and 400 plays, written by authors of Puerto Rican, Dominican, Chicano, Central American, South American, and Cuban descent living in the United States. In Spanish and English. More info
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
14. MLA International Bibliography - Gale Cengage Learning
Citations and indexing for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics, since 1926. Provides links to selected full text.  - Tutorial
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15. Music & Performing Arts Online - ProQuest (Chadwyck-Healey)
New database created 06-Oct-09Brings the International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) and the International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA) together, enabling users to search both resources simultaneously for music, theatre, dance, television, film, and other performing arts.
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU.
16. Opera in Video - Alexander Street Press
Video of staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world's best performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work's importance to the operatic canon.
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
17. Periodicals Archive Online - ProQuest (Chadwyck-Healey)
Full-text articles on the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Extensive backfile of early issues. Coverage: 1802-1995.  - Tutorial
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
18. Periodicals Index Online - ProQuest (Chadwyck-Healey)
Comprehensive database with nearly 16 million citations for journal articles on the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Provides links to selected full-text in other databases. Coverage: 1665-1995.  - Tutorial
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
19. Pop Culture Universe - Greenwood Publishing
Recommended for K-12Covers popular culture in America from the 1920s through present days. Teaching aids and student study guides are available. More info
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU, Broward, and Alumni.
20. ProQuest Central - ProQuest
Our largest full-text multidisciplinary database includes over 12,000 titles, with 9,000 available in full text. Content is provided in over 160 subject areas. More info
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU.

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