Performing Arts: General Humanities Research
Humanities Research Resources
Humanities Research Databases
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowAcademic Search Complete offers an enormous collection of full-text journals, providing users access to critical information from many sources unique to this database. In addition, it includes peer-reviewed full text for STEM research, as well as for the social sciences and humanities. Scholarly content covers a broad range of important areas of academic study, including anthropology, engineering, law, sciences and more.
Topical Video Content
Academic Search Complete offers access to video content from the Associated Press, the world’s leading news agency. Videos relevant to the search terms will appear in a carousel in the result list. With footage from 1930 to the present and updated monthly, this collection of more than 75,000 videos covers a wide variety of topics. - Art Full Text This link opens in a new windowFoundational art research database providing full-text art journals and books. It covers fine, decorative and commercial art, as well as photography, film and architecture.
- Credo Reference This link opens in a new windowBroad subject general reference database searching hundreds of encyclopedias and other reference works. Provides subject/topic maps.
- Literature: Gale This link opens in a new window
Offers broad and representative range of authors and their works, including full-text critical and literary analysis for literary studies. Researchers can find up-to-date analysis, biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods, and from around the world.
- Ebooks from Gale This link opens in a new window
A broad ranging general reference collection of ebooks. Search thousands of authoritative reference sources across all fields and disciplines.
- Humanities Full Text This link opens in a new windowProvides scholarly articles, interviews, bibliographies, obituaries, and original works of fiction, drama, poetry and reviews of books, ballets, dance, motion pictures, musicals, radio and television programs, plays, operas, and more.
- Oxford Reference Online (Literature) This link opens in a new windowAccess to encyclopedias, companions, and dictionaries devoted to various aspects of literature.
Information on writers, works, movements, historical context, literary theories, and allusions—from African American literature and Irish literature to Canadian and Italian, from Classical to Romantic, from poetry to plays.
Humanities Reference eBooks
Arts and Humanities Through the Eras by Profiling milestones and movements in the arts, literature, music and religion from a specific period, covering the various disciplines of the humanities in relation to each other, as well as to history and culture.
Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature by Composed of signed biographical-critical entries, this Encyclopedia serves as both guide and companion to the study and appreciation of American literature.
Encyclopedia of Philosophers on ReligionThis encyclopedia presents the religious affiliations and beliefs of prominent philosophers, in A-Z entries.
Encyclopedia of Philosophy by This ten-volume set, considered the most authoritative reference work on the subject includes articles ranging from individual thinkers to concepts and branches of philosophy.
Encyclopedia of Religion by Presents a cross-cultural approach that emphasizes religion's role within everyday life and as a unique experience from culture to culture.
The Harvard Dictionary of Music by Wide ranging and reliable, this treasure trove includes entries on all the styles and forms in Western music; comprehensive articles on the music of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Near East; descriptions of instruments enriched by historical background; and articles that reflect today's beat, including popular music, jazz, and rock.
St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture by Covering topics ranging from from fast food and fitness fads to political events and literary genres, including: art, books, fashion, magazines, movies, music, politics, sports, television and many others.
The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of 20th Century ArchitectureContains wide ranging and authoritative coverage of the whole spectrum of architecture and urban planning in the 20th century, and of leading architects and engineers the world over.
The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Art Terms by An essential reference work embracing the vast vocabulary of art in all its forms. Contains over 2000 authoritative entries. Covers painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, the decorative, applied and graphic arts from all periods throughout the world up to the present day: there is even a table of the dynasties of Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt, China, India and Japan.
