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World Dance History - DANC121

Books & Articles

Books

By searching for Books & Media via the library's catalog, you will find:

Books
Ebooks
Videos
Electronic/Streaming Videos
NOT articles

Articles - Scholarly & Non-Scholarly (or Popular)

-Scholarly: peer-reviewed journal articles (What do these look like?)

Formal
Specialized or advanced vocabulary
Authors - expert on the topic - credentials and affiliation
Topic is usually very specific
Long articles (5 - 7 pages or longer)
References

-Popular: includes newspapers, magazines, encyclopedias (What do these look like?)

Pictures, eye-catching, glossy
Authors - staff journalists, or people without in-depth knowledge of a topic
Easy to find or access
Current information

RVOneSearch

RVOneSearch allows you to do one search to find books, audiobooks, eBooks, films, scholarly journal articles, newspapers & magazines.

Databases for Scholarly Articles about Dance

Academic OneFile

Academic OneFile has indexing of over 13,000 journals covering multiple research subjects including the physical sciences, business, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, and literature. The majority of the journals are peer reviewed and many articles are available in full-text. This database includes full-text for many cited articles in CINAHL and ERIC plus includes podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN and CBC. It also includes key, scholarly journals published in Spanish and other languages.
Academic Search Premier

Subjects include major science disciplines such as biology, chemistry, and physics as well as engineering, psychology, religion and philosophy. It provides access to full text content for many scholarly journals, citations/abstracts for more than 1,000 titles and access to more than 60,000 videos from the Associated Press.
JSTOR

It provides full-text searches of almost 2,000 journals on a variety of subjects including history, science, literature, music, philosophy, world culture and business.
Project Muse

It contains full-text access to scholarly journals and ebooks from non-profit, scholarly publishers including university presses and societies. It covers topics in literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
Proquest Central

Subjects include business, health and medical, social sciences, arts and humanities, education, science and technology, and religion. The collection includes thousands of full-text scholarly journals, books, newspapers, magazines, conference papers and proceedings, dissertations and theses, working papers, blogs, podcasts, websites, tables, trade journals, wire feeds, video and audio resources. Some articles have citation information only.
Art Full Text
An EBSCO database for art students and art historians featuring full-text articles, indexing and abstracts from many publications covering topics from fine, decorative and commercial art to photography, folk art, film and architecture.

In addition to providing full-text articles from periodicals, this database provides indexing and abstracts for peer-reviewed journals and art dissertations and indexing for hundreds of thousands of art reproductions. With full-text coverage dating back to 1977, this database also contains resources such as books by and about artists, artist materials and methods, artist interviews and profiles and a database-specific thesaurus.

Databases for Popular Articles About Dance

Ancient and Medieval History Online

It provides biographies on notable ancient writers, military leaders and famous philosophers, Roman Emperors, Popes, Pharaohs/Queens of Egypt and archaeologists plus timelines, maps, graphs, videos and slideshows with links to many primary sources such as select works of literature, select religious texts, legal codes and constitutions and speeches.
Credo Reference
Modern World History Online

It contains timelines, videos and slideshows, biographies, maps and graphs of historic explorations, empires and kingdoms, and wars plus links to many primary source documents such as constitutions and charters, weapons treaties, annexations and territorial agreements, and peace treaties and truces. A good place to search world history topics by region or era.

Last Updated: Oct 4, 2024 2:18 PM
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Subjects: Dance