Art, Music, and Theatre

EBSCO Databases in Art

This link will take you to a short list of EBSCO databases appropriate for research in Art. Resources include Academic Search Complete and Art & Architecture Complete. You will see a short description of each database, and you may choose to search only the database(s) that are most suitable to your research.

ARTstor

ARTstor is a non-profit digital library with a collection of approximately 500,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's software tools enable viewing and analyzing images through zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline.

Design and Applied Arts Index

DAAI covers both new designers and the development of design and the applied arts since the mid-19th century, surveying disciplines including ceramics, glass, jewelry, wood, metalsmithing, graphic design, fashion and clothing, textiles, furniture, interior design, architecture, computer aided design, Web design, computer-generated graphics, animation, product design, industrial design, garden design, and landscape architecture. 

Oxford Art Online

Oxford Art Online presents the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (published in 1996), updated and fully-indexed, searchable and browsable, with over 45,000 articles and more than 40,000 links to important art images in galleries and museums around the world. Limited to five simultaneous users.

Saskia Digital Art Images

This collection contains 30,000 digital images of paintings, sculpture and architecture, including images from many important collections: the Prado, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Uffizi, and the Louvre as well as archaeological sites in Greece, Italy, Turkey and Egypt. The images are displayed in both high resolution and thumbnail format. Additionally, the descriptive data about the images includes references to the occurrences of these images in 19 major art history texts. Access to Saskia is provided by the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI). More information about the Saskia collection may be found at http://www.saskia.com/

EBSCO Databases in Music

This link will take you to a short list of EBSCO databases appropriate for research in Music. Resources include Academic Search Complete and RILM Abstracts of Music Literature. You will see a short description of each database, and you may choose to search only the database(s) that are most suitable to your research.

IPA Source

Offers the largest collection on the web of literal translations and International Phonetic Alphabet transcriptions of opera arias and art song texts. Latin, Italian, German, French, Spanish, and English works are included. You can browse by composer, arias, poets, or Latin texts.

Naxos Music Library

Naxos Music Library is the world's largest online classical music library. It currently offers streaming access to over 45,000 CDs; 500 new CDs are added monthly. In addition to classical music, NML includes jazz, world music, and more. You can access NML anytime, anywhere, but be sure to access it through Tredway Library's website.

Opera in Video

Opera in Video contains five hundred hours of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world’s best performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work’s importance to the operatic canon.

Oxford Music Online (2nd Edition)

The standard and most comprehensive music encyclopedia in an electronic form. Covered subjects include music history, theory and practice, terminology, and biography among others. Non-Western and popular music are covered as well.

ARTEMIS Literary Sources

ARTEMIS provides full-text critical articles, literary and cultural analysis, and biographies for authors from every age and literary discipline. ARTEMIS includes access to Drama Criticism with coverage of plays and playwrights.

EBSCO Databases in Theatre

This link will take you to a short list of EBSCO databases appropriate for research in Theatre. Resources include Academic Search Complete, MLA International Bibliography, America: History & Life, and Art & Architecture Complete. You will see a short description of each database, and you may choose to search only the database(s) that are most suitable to your research.

LexisNexis (now called Nexis Uni)

Nexis Uni delivers more than 15,000 news, legal and business sources including scholarly journals, television and radio broadcasts, newswires and blogs; local, regional, national and international newspapers with deep archives; legal sources for federal and state cases and statutes, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1790; and information on more than 80 million U.S. and international companies and more than 75 million executives. For instructions on how to access Nexis Uni from off campus, click here.

Theatre in Video

Theatre In Video contains definitive performances of the world's leading plays and film documentaries, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors.

Art Schools & Colleges

This resource provides information on different art degrees and top art schools.

Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance

This encyclopedia features articles with detailed career information.

Occupational Outlook Handbook

The OOH includes detailed information on close to 600 occupations, including job description, work environment, training and education, and projected job growth.

O*NET OnLine Occupational Information Network

O*NET contains information on hundreds of occupations and is continually updated.