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Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic)Funded in part by the generosity of the Flora and Jeremiah Buckley Library Fund. Contains local, regional, national, and international news with deep archives. Provides extensive legal sources for federal and state cases and statutes as well as law reviews. Also includes business information on U.S. and international companies.
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Newspaper Source PlusContains full-text access to major international and national newspapers. Also includes television and radio news transcripts.
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New York Times - HistoricalProvides every issue in PDF format from 1851 (with a three year embargo). Includes news articles, editorials, obituaries, birth and marriage announcements, photos, advertisements, and more.
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TOPICsearchProvides access to articles from popular magazines geared towards high school students.
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ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Hartford CourantAccess to digitized issues of the Hartford Courant from 1764-1922. Access to 1992-Present is available in U.S. Newsstream.
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US NewsstreamEnables users to search current U.S. news content, as well as archives that stretch back into the 1980s. It features top newspapers, wires, broadcast transcripts, blogs, and news sites in full-text format.
Finding Videos
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Films on DemandContains streaming videos in a variety of academic disciplines. Includes the Archival Films & Newsreels Collections. Public performance rights for students, faculty and staff is included if no admission is charged.
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KanopyA streaming video platform that provides access to documentaries, classics, and indie films. For information on public performance rights, visit Kanopy Support.
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Academic Video Online- Music & Performing Arts ChannelIncludes limited public performance rights such as classroom viewing and public screenings without admission fees. If having difficulty accessing a film, try another browser. Firefox or Chrome are preferred.
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Background Resources
Multidisciplinary encyclopedias:
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Credo Reference Academic CoreA comprehensive collection of subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and reference handbooks. Also included are short reference videos and high-resolution images. Useful background information source.
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Oxford Reference Online: PremiumA comprehensive collection of scholarly encyclopedias and dictionaries published by Oxford University Press. A useful background information source for starting your research. Simultaneous user limit: 5.
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Britannica AcademicProvides access to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, an interactive world atlas, a world data analyst tool, images, timelines, videos, and primary sources.
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The Oxford Companion to Theatre and PerformanceCall Number: OnlineISBN: 9780199574193Publication Date: 2010 -
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Broadway Plays and Musicals: descriptions and essential facts of more than 14,000 shows through 2007Call Number: Reference Main Level PN2277.N5 H573 2009Publication Date: 2009 -
The Methuen Drama Dictionary of the TheatreCall Number: OnlineISBN: 140814591XPublication Date: 2013
Additional Online Resources
These websites have been evaluated by librarians (that's a good thing) for your use in an academic setting. However, any website can be changed without notice, so be sure to evaluate every site you use.
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Fashion and Race DatabaseThe goal for the database is to center and amplify the voices of those who have been racialized (and thus marginalized) in fashion, illuminate under-examined histories and address racism throughout the fashion system.
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Folger Shakespeare Library's Online ResourcesThe Folger Shakespeare Library offers a broad array of online resources to aid students and scholars with their research on Shakespeare and the early modern period.
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Open Source ShakespeareOpen Source Shakespeare attempts to be the best free Web site containing Shakespeare's complete works. Intended for scholars, thespians, and Shakespeare lovers of every kind. OSS includes the 1864 Globe Edition of the complete works, which was the definitive single-volume Shakespeare edition for over a half-century.
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Internet Broadway DatabaseThe official database for Broadway theatre information providing records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre until today.
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Perseus Collection: Greek and Roman MaterialsContains numerous texts from Ancient Greek and Roman drama, as well as more recent Western theatrical traditions. From our friends at Tufts University.
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PlaybillThe latest news from Broadway and beyond, Playbill archives, performance listings, seating charts, and many other special features.
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Speech Accent ArchiveThe speech accent archive uniformly presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. From our friends at George Mason University.
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Theatre and Social Justice (January 2020 issue of Choice, volume 57 | number 5)Written by Dr. Martha Schmoyer LoMonaco, Professor of Theatre and American Studies at Fairfield University, this essay is organized in sections that follow the rough chronology of developing ideologies and techniques for producing social justice theatre in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Image Databases
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ARTstorA database comprised of images from some of the world's museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists.
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FIT Costume & Collections OnlineCurated list of museum sites and databases.
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New York Public Library Digital CollectionsFeatures the Billy Rose Theatre Collection and the Vandamm Theatrical Photographs Collection, among others.
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Museum of the City of New York Historical ImagesFeatures images of historic theatre exteriors & interiors, production stills, and more.
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Motley Collection of Theatre & Costume Design (UIUC's Rare Book and Manuscript Library)A rare collection of original materials on the theatre comprising over 5000 items from more than 150 productions in England and the United States. These materials include costume and set designs, sketches, notes, photographs, prop lists, storyboards, and swatches of fabric.
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AMA Manual of Style, 11th ed.Call Number: Online and Reference Main Level R119 .A533 2020ISBN: 9780190246556Click the title above to view the manual. For help with this style, check out our AMA Citation Guide. -
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA), 7th ed.Call Number: Reference Main Level BF76.7 .P83 2020ISBN: 9781433832161Click the title above to view the manual. For help with this style, check out our APA Citation Guide. -
MLA Handbook, 9th ed.Call Number: Reference Main Level LB2369 .G53 2021ISBN: 9781603293518Click the title above to view the handbook. For help with this style, check out our MLA Citation Guide. -
The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th ed.Call Number: Online and Reference Main Level Z253 .U69 2017ISBN: 9780226287058Click the title above to view the manual. Our Citation Guides can help with Chicago Notes-Bibliography style or Chicago Author-Date style. -
IEEE Editorial Style Manual for Authors by Call Number: OnlineClick the title above to view the manual. For help with this style, check out our IEEE Citation Guide.
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