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Books and other materials held by OCLC Member Libraries.
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Annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced between 1972 and mid-2001.

Statistics on salaries, employment and the perfoming arts as an industry.

Guide for locating online and print reviews of theatrical works.

Indexes journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Allows for cited reference searching.

Borrow Books from other libraries in Pennsylvania and the Tri-State area.

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Bibliographic citations with indexing for all aspects of English literature, literary culture, and linguistics. Topics covered include: English prose, poetry, fiction, films, biography, travel writing, literary theory, and studies of individual authors; language, syntax, phonology, lexicology, semantics, stylistics, and dialectology; bibliography, manuscript studies, textual studies, history of publishing; traditional culture of the English-speaking world, customs, beliefs, narratives, song, dance, and material culture.
Holdings: 1920- Annual updates lag by one year.

National Endowment for the Arts, includes statistics on the performing arts.

Biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
PLEASE NOTE: Penn has licensed two user "seats" for Literature Resource Center. If you try to connect and receive an error message that we have reached our limit of concurrent users, please give it 15 minutes or so and try again.
Project Gutenberg is the Internet's oldest producer of free electronic books (eBooks or eTexts). Over 6,200 texts are available.
PlayFinder - Catalogue of the Dramatists Play Service (New York, N.Y.)
Purchase books, apply for rights, search the organization's catalogue of over 3,000 plays.
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Listen to audio recordings of plays.
Interactive digital archive of data on the arts and cultural policy in the United States. Includes data on artists, arts and cultural organizations, audiences, and funding for arts and culture.
Covers all aspects of music, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, dance, and music therapy. If related to music, works in other fields, such as librarianship, literature, dramatic arts, visual arts, anthropology, sociology, philosophy and physics are included.
Holdings: 1969 to the present. Updated monthly.
Humanities and social sciences. The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages.
The editor-librarians at Harmonie Park Press survey data from more than 690 international music periodicals and review new journals for possible inclusion. Topics concerned with every aspect of the classical and popular world of music are carefully categorized and organized according to the framework of an internal Subject List. A broad range of subjects are indexed, covering musicological or organological topics, plus book reviews, record reviews, first performances, and obituaries. (from Music Index website)
IIMP Full Text is a music information resource with indexing, abstracts and selected full text from many sources, covering the scholarly to the popular. Offering the widest span of scholarship available, IIMP Full Text ranges from 1874 to the most recent issues.
Holdings: Dates vary.
Subject index to the microfilm collections American Periodical Series I & II, (see also APS Online), which are located in the Van Pelt Microtext Center, first floor east. The Penn Library does not have a subscription to the third segment of the database which covers the time period 1850-1935 (APS III).
Global Books in Print
Holdings: Updated weekly.
EEBO (Early English Books Online) Text Creation Partnership
The University of Michigan, the University of Oxford, the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), and ProQuest Information and Learning are engaged in an partnership to create structured SGML/XML text editions for a significant portion of the Short Title Catalog of Early English books published between 1473 and 1700. ProQuest has already created digital images for nearly 125,000 works, distributed under the title Early English Books Online. The Universities of Michigan and Oxford, with the support of the international library community, are creating accurately keyboarded and tagged editions of a significant portion of this culturally significant corpus. The Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership has proposed to create 25,000 searchable and readable editions that link immediately to the corresponding ProQuest image files. To date (07.06) there are 12192 texts in EEBO TCP.
Holdings: 1470-1700
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EEBO (Early English Books Online)
Full-text page images of approximately 100,000 titles from the Short-Title Catalogue of English works 1475-1640, Wing's continuation for 1641-1700, and their revisions. Information is presented in the form of online images as well as downloadable PDF copies. To view these full-text documents online, you need a DJVU plugin from AT&T. In order to view the downloaded PDF documents, you need Acrobat Reader from Adobe.
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Indexing (since 1861) and abstracting (since 1980) for doctoral-level dissertations completed at North American universities. Full-text of Penn Dissertations from 1997 to present. Dissertations from selected European universities are also listed. Selected master's theses are included since 1988.  Holdings: Indexing 1861-present, abstracts 1980-present, full-text PDF for most Penn dissertations from 1997 to the present.
CIOS/Comserve is an online resource for communication scholars containing several services, including an index to 27 key communication periodicals, the Electronic Journal of Communication, a full text scholarly journal, descriptions of graduate programs in communication, academic job postings, events calendar and electronic white pages to help locate communication scholars.
Holdings: Dates of coverage vary, earliest indexed journal begins in 1962.
Covers European and American art from the fourth century to the present. Areas addressed are painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, decorative and applied arts, architecture and industrial design, and popular and folk art. Abstracts in English or French.
Holdings: 1973 to the present. Updated quarterly.
Scope extends from artists and movements beginning with Impressionism in the late nineteenth century, up to the most recent works and trends in the twenty-first century. Photography is covered from its invention in 1839 to the present. Emphasis is placed on adding new and lesser-known artists and on the coverage of foreign-language literature. Covers painting, printmaking, sculpture, drawing, performance art, installation works, video art, computer and electronic art, body art, graffiti, artists' books, theater arts, crafts, jewelry, illustration. ABM. Holdings: 1974-present
This collection contains 711 plays by American dramatists that chronicle the history and culture of America through its dramatic writing. It includes plays by dramatists such as Thomas Paine, Edward Hitchcock, and James Lawson. When complete, the collection will contain more than 2,000 plays.
Indexes over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Includes selected abstracts from research journals. Holdings: 1991 to present.
Biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
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Containing 3.2 million. short biographical entries for eminent individuals who lived in North and South America, Western and Central Europe, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania. The entry for each person contains the name, variations of the name, pseudonymes, the years of birth and death or years mentioned, occupation, source quoted (archive, fiche-no and page) and bibliographic information about the sources used. The microfiche editions of the archives containing the complete texts of the biographical entries are in the Van Pelt Microforms Department.

Gale's Literary Index is a master index to the major literature series published by The Gale Group. It combines and cross references more than 130,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and more than 140,000 titles into one source.

Coverage: deceased British men and women, where "British" includes people who lived in England, Scotland and Ireland, people who lived in British colonies during colonial times, and people who were born in England, Scotland and Ireland but made their mark elsewher Dates: an individual needs to have died prior to 2002 to be included.

The American National Biography (ANB) is the successor to The Dictionary of American Biography (DAB)(1926-1937). As such, it is a source of biographical information on Americans of significance, both American and significance broadly defined. The one fast rule for inclusion is that the person must have died before 1996.

Access to Google Scholar with Penn-only links to full-text articles. Once authenticated through Penn's proxy, full-text articles to which Penn Libraries subscribe will become available within the Google Scholar search results.

General, multidisciplinary fulltext periodical database, covering all scholarly disciplines, with many general and popular magazines, and news sources. Includes bibliographic citations with indexing and abstracts for more than 16,000 periodicals.

Project Muse provides full text access to articles from over 300 scholarly journals in the humanties, arts, social sciences and sciences.


JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of journals in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines.


A list of all the e-journals available for theatre arts.

LION is a searchable, full-text collection of over 250,000 works in English and American Literature.

Covers literature, languages, folklore, and linguistics. Includes English and foreign languages.

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Borrow books from the other Ivy League Libraries.

The Fine Arts Library Image Collection, available to all Penn students, faculty and staff, offers an expanding database of over 100,000 digital images as well as records documenting 237,000 of the 500,000 slides housed in the Fisher Fine Arts Library.

Image and Graphics Databases only available on this subscription. Contains over one million Associated Press photographs (with searchable captions) in two collections, downloadable as JPEG (jpg) images: North American national, regional, state, and local photos with "the best international photos"; Euro/Asian photos. Also, AP Graphics Database provides PDF-format Associated Press-produced information graphics, diagrams, maps, charts, and logos for newspapers and other print media.

Resources for images in Theatre Arts. Includes pictures of theatres, production photos and related art.

At its height in the 1940s the Pittsburgh Courier was one of the most important african american newspapers in the country, had a national circulation of over 350,000 and was as widely read as the Chicago Defender and Baltimore Afro-American. It is famous for its coverage of racial stereotypes in popular media, segregation in the military, Jim Crow in the South and african american figures in sports, and is a vital source of information about the Great Migration.


Access to full-text national and international newspapers , including the New York Times, and the Times of London business and accounting information, biographical data, and some selected legal materials. News sources also include magazines, broadcast transcripts, and wire services. Among the document sources included are the U.S. Code and Federal Case Law, state codes and case law, and U.S. patents.

Searchable fulltext of nearly 500 U.S. national, regional, and local newspapers. Coverage for current issues (i.e., yesterday in most cases) with extensive backfiles. Business and Management, Communication, Education, Philadelphia Studies, Political Science, Public Policy and Administration, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences, Sociology, Urban Studies.

Factiva is a full-text online service that provides access to sources of national and international news, business, health and general information. News sources include newspapers, magazines, media transcripts, wire services, pictures and web sites. In addition, Factiva provides access to several financial databases. Factiva covers over 9,000 sources in 22 languages

Theatre news magazine operating since 1884.