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| Core Resources | | (c. 1982 to present) Includes citations to journal articles, books, essays, and doctoral dissertations on all aspects of theatre and the performing arts; international in scope. Includes the full text of 100 periodicals and 50 books. | | New interface!
(1926 to present) Indexes articles, books, and dissertations in the areas of English, American, European, Asian, African, and Latin American linguistics, modern languages and literatures, film studies, and folklore. | | | Play Index | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1949 to present) Indexes over 44,000 plays written in or translated into English and published individually or in collections. Covers plays from Ancient Greece and Rome through the present and also includes monologues, one-act plays, and radio and television plays. | | | Web of Knowledge | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (c. 1900 to present) A multidisciplinary resource that provides citations to articles in over 10,000 journals in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Includes:- Web of Science, an index of current and historical journal articles as well as a powerful tool for finding works that have cited a specific author or article
- ISI Proceedings (1990 to present), an index of over four million conference papers
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Use is restricted to current faculty and staff and currently-enrolled students of Davidson College only. |
| Reference Resources | | | Literature Resource Center | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Contains full-text biographies, critical essays, journal articles, and excerpts of criticism and reviews about over 130,000 literary authors and their works; covers dramatists, essayists, novelists, poets, and other writers from all time periods.
Includes Contemporary Authors, The Dictionary of Literary Biography, and substantial portions of Gale's other literature criticism series, including the Scribner Writers Series. Also includes the Gale's Literary Index and the Encyclopedia of Literature. |
| Other Resources | | (c. 1760-1900) Contains more than 30,000 digital facsimiles of broadsides and ephemera, including advertisements, handbills, trade cards, theatre and music programs, stock certificates, menus, and many other works.
This collection is part of the Archive of Americana. | | A collection of over 9 million primary source documents and archival materials related to American history and culture. Includes a wide variety of materials, including manuscripts, government documents, pamphlets, books, and other publications as well as photographs, prints, maps, sheet music, video clips, and sound files. There are over 100 thematic collections in American Memory; you can search across all collections or browse or search individual collections. From the Library of Congress. | | (1920 to present) Indexes journal articles, essays, and books, book reviews, and critical editions of literary works published world-wide; covers all literatures in English as well as the English language, bibliography, textual studies, and the history of publishing. | | Contains digital images of over 37,000 books, pamphlets, and broadsides published in the British American colonies, and later the United States, from 1639 through 1800. Based on Charles Evans's American Bibliography and Roger Bristol's Supplement to Charles Evans' American Bibliography.
This collection is part of the Archive of Americana.
Note: the Library also has Evans on microfiche; the online version contains more titles, however. | | Contains digital images of over 36,000 American books, pamphlets, and broadsides published from 1801 through 1819. Based on Ralph Shaw and Richard Shoemaker's American Bibliography and supplemented by thousands of additional titles.
This collection is part of the Archive of Americana.
Note: the Library also has Shaw-Shoemaker on microfiche; the online version contains more titles, however. | | (1475-1700) Includes complete, digitized images of over 125,000 books, pamphlets, broadsides, and other materials published in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British North American from the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries. | | | ebrary | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Contains over 38,000 e-books published by over 220 academic, trade, and professional publishers; covers all subject areas. Also includes tools that allow you to create your own virtual bookshelf, bookmark pages, and add and save notes and highlights.
Note: To read ebrary books, you need the ebrary Reader. This plugin is loaded on all library computers, but if you are using your own computer, you can download it by clicking on the "ebrary Reader" button within ebrary.
See also the system requirements for ebrary. | | New interface and more content!
(1701-1800) Contains the full text of 180,000 books, pamphlets, almanacs, advertisements, songs, and other materials published in Great Britain and British North America during the eighteenth century; also includes digital facsimiles of each of the works. | | (1907 to present) Indexes articles in over 500 English-language periodicals in the fields of archaeology, art, classics, communication, film, folklore, history, languages and literatures, music, philosophy, religion, and theatre. Also includes citations for book, theatre, and film reviews as well as interviews, obituaries, and some original creative works. Includes the full text of selected articles from 1995 to the present. | | (c. 1842 to present for some titles) An interdisciplinary database containing citations to journal articles, essays, and books related to the Middle Ages and Renaissance; covers the time period 400 - 1700 CE. | | | JSTOR | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| A searchable archive of the back issues of major scholarly journals. | | (1665 to 1995) Indexes articles from humanities and social sciences periodicals from their first issues to 1995. Particularly useful for locating references to articles from the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. International in scope. | | | Project Muse | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (c. mid-1990s to present) A searchable collection of full-text articles from journals published by university and scholarly presses. | | | Reference Universe | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
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Search Reference Universe to find out which reference works contain information on your topic. Reference Universe indexes many of the library's reference books and e-books. | | Provides digital images of 93 copies of the 21 Shakespeare plays that were printed in quarto before 1642; allows you to view individual copies of the Quartos or compare one copy with another. Also includes background information and a glossary. A complete list of the British Library's 93 Quartos is also available. | | (1971 to present) Searchable database containing over 75,000 annotated entries for books, articles, theatrical productions, audiovisual materials, and other materials related to Shakespeare. Also includes book reviews as well as reviews of theatrical productions, films, and audio recordings. | |  WorldCat | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| A union catalogue of books, videos, musical scores, archival resources, maps, periodicals, and other materials held by U.S. and international libraries. |
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Questions? Please contact Susanna Boylston, Head of Library Instruction and Collection Development (704-894-2494).
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