Visual and Performing Arts: Overview

Formerly Grove Art; authoritative and easily searchable from an expanding range of Oxford's accalimed art refererence works, as well as many specially commissioned articles.

Now contains 125 core academic subject, language and quotation dictionaries; also 180 in-depth specialist titles from Oxford Encyclopedias and Companions.

Cross search 600+ reference titles from over 60 scholarly publishers. Full text of the best reference books, along with images, visual concept map of results, and more.

Comprehensive resource with hundreds of peer-reviewed journals. Covers fine, decorative and commercial art, folk art, photography, film, and architecture.

Featrures hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies. It is designed to complement the following indexes: ABM, Avery, BHA, BHI, DAAI, Index Islamicus, MLA, Philosopher's Index and RILM.

Play Index searches over 30,000 plays written from Antiquity to the present and published from 1949 to the present in the convenient electronic form that patrons prefer. An invaluable aid to finding the perfect plays, Play Index covers a wide range of plays written in or translated into English, including mysteries, pageants, plays in verse, puppet performances, radio and television plays, and classic drama. Search for plays by title; author; subject (sisters, culture conflict, marriage); style (symbolism, experimental theater); genre (comedy, melodrama, musical); cast type.

Search 28 databases in one single search that cover many subjects including computing, nursing & allied health, health management, education, criminal justice, biology and general sciences, psychology and general social sciences - lots of full text.

Full text for more than 1,700 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines. Also contains full text for over 500 reference books, 164,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 510,000 photos, maps and flags. 

JSTOR is an online archive of scholarly journals which contains high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. Overall, it provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.

Scholarly and peer-reviewed articles (many full text) in an academic multi-disciplinary database covering all fields.

Scholarly and peer-reviewed articles (many full text) in an academic multi-disciplinary database covering all fields.

With over 143,000 downloadable ebooks in all disciplines, Proquest eBooks (formerly ebrary) offers authoritative titles in a wide range of subject areas, along with powerful tools to help you find, use, and manage the information you need.