Dance: Databases

Click the red star above for a brief tutorial. The most comprehensive video database covering more than 67,000 titles on anthropology, business, counseling, film health, history, music, and more curated for the educational experience of all types of library patrons.

Contains 250 dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and pioneers of modern concert dance. Included are classic performances from top ballet companies; experimental works from up-and-coming dance troupes; documentaries by and about leading choreographers; video on dance training; and other items covering a wide range of 20th century dance styles.

The only collection of curated primary and secondary full-text materials to support informed performance, pedagogy, and scholarship in dance.

Dance Online: Dance Studies Collection presents the historical context of 20th and 21st century dance through 150,000 pages of exclusive photographs, correspondence, magazines, dance notation, and reference material that dissolve the distance between archive and scholar and draw dance students into the library.

Click the red star to watch a short video that will demonstrate how to search for eBooks in in eBook Central Academic Complete. Search for and read full-text e-books online. For Fall 2020 we now offer over 208,000 titles.

A database of licensed streaming videos. Contains over 15,000 titles from producers such as Films for the Humanities, PBS, and more. The films can be linked to Blackboard course resources, shown directly in class, or accessed any time from home or office. Most films offer Closed Captioning.

Click the red star to search and find articles in JSTOR. Expanded Collection for a Limited Time: In addition to our currently subscribed full text collection of over 900 journals (from the start of each journal within one to five years of the present time), JSTOR is providing full access to all JSTOR Archive and Primary Source collections along with more than 35,000 books.

Click the red star for a a short video that will address using boolean connectors and filtering options when conducting a search in Nexis Uni. Nexis Uni, the successor of LexisNexis Academic, provides full-text access to over 15,000 news, business, and legal sources. The news coverage includes deep archives and up-to-the-minute stories in national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language news services. Use the Company Dossier module to retrieve detailed company information and financial performance measures or identify and compare companies matching specific criteria. This product also provides access to the renowned Shepard's Citations service for all federal and state court cases 1789-present.

Naxos Music Library is the worlds largest classical music library. Currently, it offers streaming access to more than 137,800 CDs with more than 2,133,000 tracks of both standard and rare repertoire. Over 800 new CDs are added to the library every month. The collection is benchmarked against the development suggestions outlined in the Music Library Association's A Basic Music Library. Naxos Music Library has simple and advanced searching, common (non-proprietary) software requirements and extensive background information such as complete liner notes.

Offers a mixed selection of jazz legends and contemporary jazz. Naxos Jazz contains more than 3,000 CD's and new CD's are added every month.

Provides access to over 500 full text education journals, including more than 300 peer reviewed titles. Indexing and abstracts are provided for nearly 800 education journals.

American Psychological Association's (APA) renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapter, books and dissertations, is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. Contains over 3 millions records and summaries dating as far back as the 1600's with one of the highest DOI matching rates in the publishing industry. Journal coverage, which spans from the 1800's to the present, includes international material selected from around 2500 periodicals in dozens of languages.

The SAGE Journals platform includes full text of scholarly journals from SAGE publications in many disciplines, such as ,health sciences, education, religion, social sciences, criminal justice and business.

Click the red star for a tutorial on using the Wall Street Journal Database. This database provides full text of the Wall Street Journal. Articles are published one day after they appear in the print or online version of the newspaper. Detailed indexing will help you quickly find the news information you need. Each issue is indexed thoroughly, so you have access to not only top news stories but also the information contained on the various sections of the paper. The indexing covers not only complete bibliographic information but also companies, people, products, etc.