LibGuides: *Performing Arts: General Research Guide: Performing Arts Databases

Performing Arts Databases

Subject specific databases are especially good for in-depth research about your topic.

For help with databases, see the Database Access Troubleshooting Guide.

ARTstor
ARTstor is a rich digital library that offers collections of art images and descriptive information. Throughout 2021 and into 2022, images from Artstor collections are being added to JSTOR, and JSTOR platform features and functionality are evolving to support work with multiple formats of research materials.
Education Source
Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. It also covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues.
Fine Arts and Music Collection (now called Gale OneFile: Fine Arts)
Fine Arts & Music Collection provides access to information on hundreds of arts-related topics from: Hip Hop to Handel; the feminist film movement to machismo in movies; elementary music education to advanced music theory; art therapy to the new urbanist movement in architecture; ballet to belly dancing and more.
Humanities Source
"Humanities Source provides full text—plus abstracts and bibliographic indexing—for the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities. Including feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, book reviews, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, and much more, Humanities Source is a valuable collection for students, researchers and educators interested in all aspects of the humanities."
Project MUSE - Standard Collection
Project MUSE (standard collection) offers full-text current and archival articles from scholarly journals from major university presses covering literature and criticism, history, performing arts, cultural studies, education, philosophy, political science, gender studies, and more. Updated continually.

Open Access Databases

GloPAD
"GloPAD is a multimedia, multilingual, Web-accessible database containing digital images, texts, video clips, sound recordings, and complex media objects (such as 3-D images) related to the performing arts from around the world".
Performing Arts Encyclopedia of the Library of Congress
Explore music, theater, and dance at the Library of Congress.