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Questions? Contact Sara Swanson (704-894-2157).
Finding Books
Use library catalogs to find books, videos, government documents, journals, magazines, and newspapers. The Davidson College Library Catalog contains information about materials owned by Davidson. WorldCat lists materials held in libraries around the world. If Davidson does not have a copy of what you need, use Interlibrary Loan to request it.
When searching for books and other materials in a catalog, try searching by keyword, author, or title. You may also search by Library of Congress subject headings. To locate appropriate subject headings, do a keyword search and then browse records. Helpful subject headings include:
- Authors and theater
- Drama
- Drama - 17th century
- Drama - 18th century
- Drama - 19th cenutry
- Drama - 20th century
- Drama - 21st century
- Drama - Social Aspects
- Performing arts
- Theater
- Theater and society
To see electronic books held by Davidson, see ebrary, a collection of over 38,000 e-books published by over 220 academic, trade, and professional publishers. It covers all subject areas and includes tools that allow you to create your own virtual bookshelf, bookmark pages, and add and save notes and highlights.
For a list of helpful reference materials owned by Davidson College, click here.
Finding Articles
Starting Points | Dramatic and Literary Criticism | History & Politics | Other Databases
To find journals owned by the library, go to the Library Catalog, do a subject keyword search for your topic and limit your search by format to newspapers and periodicals. Clicking on the Periodicals link in the red bar on the library catalog search page will also allow you to browse journals by subject category.
Use the Library’s online indexes and databases to find articles from scholarly journals. Depending on your research interest, you may wish to search in general databases or discipline-specific ones. Here are some suggested databases:
- Starting Points
- Academic Search Premier
(1975 to present) Indexes popular and scholarly articles in a broad range of subject areas; also includes citations to book reviews and citations to articles in several national newspapers.
- LexisNexis Academic
(Approx. 1980 to present) Includes the full text of articles from local, national, and international newspapers, magazines, and trade journals as well as articles from law reviews and federal and state cases.
- OmniFile Full Text Mega
(1982 to present) Indexes articles from over 3,000 scholarly and popular periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences; also includes the full text of selected articles from over 1,650 of these periodicals.
- Dramatic and Literary Criticism
- Gale Literary Databases. Gale, 2001- .
Includes:
- Contemporary Literary Criticism Select
- Humanities Abstracts
(1907 to present). Indexes articles in over 500 English-language journals 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.
- International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance
(c. 1982 to present) Includes citations to, and some full text of, journal articles, books, and essays on all aspects of theatre and the performing arts. International in scope. Unlike the MLA International Bibliography, the International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance focuses on theatre-as-performance.
- MLA International Bibliography
(1926 to present). Indexes journal articles, books, and doctoral dissertations in the fields of English, American, European, Asian, African, and Latin American linguistics, modern languages and literatures, film studies, and folklore.
- History & Politics
- Historical Abstracts & America: History & Life
(Time period covered: 1450 to present [world history]; prehistory to present [U.S. and Canadian history]. Publication coverage: 1954 to present). Indexes journal articles, book chapters, doctoral dissertations, and book reviews. (Each database can also be searched separately.)
- Humanities Abstracts
(1907 to present). Indexes articles in over 500 English-language journals 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.
- PAIS International
(1915 to present) Indexes journal articles, books, government documents, and conference papers in political science, public affairs, and economics.
- Social Sciences Abstracts
(1907 to present) Indexes journal articles and some book reviews on all social sciences subjects, including history, political science, international relations, law, economics, area studies, gender studies, anthropology, psychology, and sociology.
- Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
(1975 to present) Indexes articles on a broad array of political science and international relations topics; international in scope.
- Other Databases
- Essay & General Literature Index
(1985 to present) Indexes chapters and essays in edited collections.
- JSTOR
Includes pdf copies of scholarly articles from a core collection of journals; also includes book reviews. Note:JSTOR does not contain articles from the most recent 3-5 years.
- Periodicals Index Online
(c. 1665-1995) Indexes journal and magazine articles as well as book reviews in a broad array of humanities, social sciences, and science subjects.
- Project Muse
Contains full-text articles from journals published by university and scholarly presses.
- Web of Knowledge
(c. 1900 to present) A multidisciplinary resource that provides citations to articles in thousands of journals in the social sciences, humanities, and sciences.
Reference Works
Reference Universel Biographical Sources | Drama & the Theatre | Historical, Social, & Political Background
- Reference Universe
Don't know where to begin? Try Reference Universe, an index of the indexes in many of the library's reference books and e-books. Reference Universe will tell you which titles contain information on your topic.
- Biographical Sources
- Drama & the Theatre
- Cambridge Guide to American Theatre. Don Wilmeth. Rev. ed. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996.
Reference R 792.0973 C178 1996
- The Cambridge Guide to the Theatre. Ed. Martin Banham. New ed. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995.
Reference R792.03 C178
- The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama. Ed. Gabrielle Cody and Evert Sprinchorn. 2 vols. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2007.
Reference R 809.2 C726
- The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre. Ed. Colin Chambers. New York: Continuum, 2002.
Reference R 927.9 C762
- Critical Survey of Drama. Ed. Carl Rollyson. 2nd rev. ed. 8 vols. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2003.
Reference R 809.2 C934
- International Dictionary of Theatre. Ed. Mark Hawkins-Dady. 3 vols. Chicago, IL: St. James Press, 1992.
Reference R 792 I61
- The Oxford Dictionary of Plays. Michael Patterson. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005.
Reference R 809.2 P319o
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature. Ed. Jay Parini. 4 vols. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2004.
Reference R 810.3 O983
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. Ed. David Scott Kastan. 5 vols. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2006.
Reference R 820.3 O982
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance. Ed. Dennis Kennedy. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2003.
Reference R 792.03 O98
- Historical, Social, & Political Background
Sixteenth & Seventeenth Century | Nineteenth, Twentieth, & Twenty-First Centuries
- Sixteenth & Seventeenth Century
- Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. Ed. Paul F. Grendler. 6 vols. New York: Scribner's, 1999.
Reference R 940.2 E56
- Europe 1450-1789: An Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World. Ed. Jonathan Dewald. 6 vols. New York: Scribner's, 2004.
Reference R 940.2 E89
- Gale Virtual Reference Library
A collection of electronic reference books.
- Historical Dictionary of Stuart England, 1603-1689. Ed. Ronald H. Fritze and William B. Robison. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1996.
Reference R 942.06 H673
- Historical Dictionary of the Elizabethan World. John A. Wagner. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx, 1999.
Reference R 942.05 W133h
- Historical Dictionary of Tudor England, 1485-1603. Ed. Ronald H. Fritze. New York: Greenwood, 1991.
Reference R 942.04 H673
- The Longman Companion to the Tudor Age. Rosemary O'Day. New York: Longman, 1995.
Reference R 942.05 O22L
- Tudor England: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Arthur F. Kinney and David W. Swain. New York: Garland, 2001.
Reference R 942.05 T912
- Nineteenth, Twentieth, & Twenty-First Centuries
- The African American Encyclopedia. Ed. Michael W. Williams. 6 vols. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 1993.
Reference R 973.049 A258
Supplement (2 vols.; 1997): Reference R 973.049 A258 Supp.
- Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. Ed. Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2nd ed. 5 vols. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005.
Reference R 909.04 A2581
- Americans at War: Society, Culture, and the Homefront. Ed. John P. Resch. Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference, 2005.
Reference R
973 A5122
- The Cold War Encyclopedia. Thomas Parrish. New York: Henry Holt, 1996.
Reference R
909.82 P261c
- Dictionary of American History. Ed. Stanley I. Kutler. 10 vols. New York: Scribner's, 2003.
Reference R 973 D554 2003
- Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. Ed. Colin Palmer. 6 vols. Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference, 2006.
- Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History. Ed. Mary Kupiec Cayton and Peter Williams. 3 vols. New York: Scribner's, 2001.
Reference R 973.04 E564
- Encyclopedia of American Political History. Eds. Paul Finkelman and Peter Wallenstein. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2001.
Reference R 973.03 E563
- Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered History in America. Ed. Marc STein. New York: Thomson Learning, 2004.
Reference R 306.76 E56
- Encyclopedia of Modern Europe: Europe since 1914. John Merriman and Jay Winter. Detroit, MI: Scribner's, 2006.
- Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History. Ed. David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler. 5 vols. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2000.
Reference R 973.7 E56
- Encyclopedia of the McCarthy Era. William K. Klingaman. New York: Facts on File, 2006.
Reference R
973.918 K65e
- Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century. Ed. Paul Finkelman. 3 vols. New York: Scribner's, 2001.
Reference R 973.5 E56
- Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century. Ed. Stanley I. Kutler. 4 vols. New York: Scribner's, 1996.
Reference R 973.03 E562
- Europe Since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction. Eds. John Merriman and Jay Winter. Detroit, MI: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006.
- Gale Virtual Reference Library
A collection of electronic reference books.
- Gay Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia. Ed. George E. Haggerty. New York: Garland, 2000.
Reference R
306.76 G285
- The Harvard Guide to African-American History. Ed. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 2001.
Reference R 973.04 H3391
An earlier version of this guide was created by Susanna Boylston.
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