Research Guide - BU Libraries
Performing Arts Database locates citations for writings spanning the disciplines of theatre, dance, and music. These writings chiefly originate in subject-specific trade journals, magazines, and more established scholarly journals. Some full-text is included. Content is international in scope with the majority of the original content having been produced in the United States and Europe.
Indexes critical materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. Includes citations from worldwide publications: periodicals, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations and bibliographies.
Readers' Guide indexes hundreds of general interest and specialized magazines dating from the late 19th century to the present with full text of articles for more recent publications.
This general-interest database provides indexes, abstracts and full-text articles from journal and news sources. The content includes a variety of topics, such as education, business, science, current events, politics, and technology.
Newspapers are good sources for reviews and criticism. Check the News and Newspapers guide for individual online paper titles like the New York Times, or use the "News" tab of Nexis Uni to search several papers at once.
You may also find that you need older papers than are available through the tools mentioned above. One of the best resources to use when looking for historical newspapers is ProQuest Historical Newspapers. This will allow you to search historic newspapers from New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Washington D.C.
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