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Project Muse
Scholarly humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies.
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Factiva.com (mid-1980s - present)
Newspapers, company information, pictures and media transcripts from Australian and overseas media sources.For Australian news sources, the Fairfax publications archive includes The Sydney Morning Herald 1986+, Australian Financial Review 1987+, BRW 1989+, and the News Limited archive includes The Australian 1996+.

Australian Financial Review via Factiva has a 72-hour embargo on daily articles.

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Literature Online
Full text resource that includes American Drama, 1714-1915 and English Drama (from the Medieval period to Oscar Wilde); as well as 208 full-text literature journals and bibliographies.
Humanities & Social Sciences Collectionvia Informit e-Library (1998-present)
Informit e-Library is an e-press for Australian and Asia-Pacific information and provides access to full content from a range of journals, monographs and books, conference proceedings, research papers and reference materials. Links to individual titles will be made available from the Library online catalogue.
IIMP : International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text(1864-present)
References, with some full text, to journal articles, chapters and reviews on nearly all aspects of the world of music, from the most scholarly studies to the latest crazes.
Proquest Central
Multiple databases covering disciplines within Media Studies and the Social Sciences and Humanities. Also includes a digitised collection of dissertations & theses
Dissertation & Theses Full Text
Major source for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Full text is available from 1997 to the present.
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Note: It contains very large files; may be slow to download off-campus.
Cambridge Histories Online: including Theatre and Music
Provides access to the complete series of Cambridge Histories from Cambridge University Press, browsable by 15 key subject areas including American, British, Economic History, Histories of science, the book, literature, theatre, religion, music, language, and warfare.

Oxford History of Western Music Online
Online version of the celebrated 6 volume Oxford History of Western Music: a comprehensive reference tool which includes illustrations and 1,800 musical examples.
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Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
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Opera in Video
Contains video of many of the most significant opera performances from the world’s best performers, conductors and opera houses around the world. Contains operatic repertoire from the Baroque era through to the twentieth century.
Music Online (Classical Music Library and Classical Scores Library)
Classical Music Library is a large streaming database of Classical music recordings; Classical Scores Library) includes the major composers and many lesser known composers and works, from the Renaissance to the 21st century.

Journals

TheatreForum
International theatre journal published by the UCSD Department of Theatre and Dance. Discusses the work of innovative theatre artists in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas.
TDR: The Drama Review (to 1999)
Provides articles on performances in their social economic and political contexts. Emphasis is on the experimental, intercultural and interdisciplinary.
Theatre Research International
Published by Cambridge University Press, it presents the history and criticism of drama and the art of the theatre.
Theatre Journal
Features social and historical studies, production reviews and analyses of dramatic texts and productions.
Asian Theatre Journal
Contains articles on the performing arts of Asia, focusing on traditional and modern theatrical forms. Available from 1999.
Some eJournals for Theatre and Performing Arts

eBook collections and eReference

Some eBooks for Theatre and Performing Arts
Cambridge Histories Online
Includes links to the Cambridge Histories of British and American Theatre.
Oxford Reference Online
Comprises over 175 fully-indexed, cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.
Oxford English Dictionary
Online access to the 20 volume second edition.