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Performing Arts - Dance
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Best Databases for Dance

General Databases (which include information on Dance)

  • Academic Search Premier  
    An interdisciplinary database which covers the humanities, and includes full-text articles to over 4,595 periodicals.
  • American National Biography  
    Contains biographies of almost 18,000 deceased men and women, whose lives have shaped America. Search dance personalities by choosing "Occupations" - "Performing Arts", then try searching "dancer".
  • Encyclopedia Britannica  
    Online version of the familiar work; a good source for introductory dance research.
  • iCONN Newsstand  
    A collection of 6 major newspaper titles including the New York Times, the L.A. Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor, and the Hartford Courant. Newspapers include current news about the dance industry, as well as reviews.
  • In the First Person  
    An index to English language personal narratives allowing users to perform in-depth field and keyword searches across all letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies within scholarly materials that are freely available on the Web and Alexander Street databases. Includes various comments about dance personalities.
  • JSTOR  
    JSTOR is an archive of core scholarly journals in cross-disciplinary fields such as anthropology, economics, mathematics, and the arts and sciences. Our collection includes the Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV, V, VI, and VII collections, which are searched from the initial JSTOR search box seamlessly. Dance related topics are included.
  • WorldCat  
    Search the libraries of the world for dance topics; request the books through Smith Library inter-library loan!
 

Dance Journals

Journal Titles for Browsing

You'll find current issues of these titles and more in our current periodical reading room (Floor 2).

      
     
     

    How to Find a Journal

    Suppose you have identified an article that you want to read, and know the journal and issue where it was published, but don't know if the library has the journal. The ECSU Journal Locator can tell you if the library has a subscription in print or online format.  When you have online access, the Journal Locator provides a link to a list of issues.

     
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