Macdonald-Kelce Library: Dance: Best Bets

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Use Spartan Search to search the library's collection of DVDs and literature related to dance.

Please note that not all streaming media content is not indexed in Spartan Search and users should search those interfaces directly to find and access audio-video files.

Music & Dance Online
Music and Dance Online currently includes over 11 million audio tracks, 2,500 hours of video, 1.3 million pages of scores, and 500,000+ pages of reference, archival primary sources, and periodicals, comprising the largest and most comprehensive online offering of in-copyright audio and video performances and scores available anywhere.
Naxos Video Library
A continuously updated performing arts video library containing operas, ballets, documentaries, live concerts, and musical tours of historic places. It includes the Naxos DVD label, Opus Arte, Arthaus, Dacapo, and EuroArts, and more. **Note: Content in this collection is not available in Spartan Search and must be searched directly in the Naxos interface.
JSTOR
Scholarly journals, ebooks, primary sources, and ebooks in the arts, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and business.
Project MUSE
Full-text scholarly journals and ebooks covering the humanities and social sciences broadly, and more specifically topical areas such as ...

literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others.

Books and journals from non-profit scholarly publishers, including university presses and societies. Offers Online Teaching & Learning Resources, Teaching & Content Alerts, content for Courses & Research. Also contains The Complete Prose of T.S. Eliot: The Critical Edition gathers for the first time in one place the collected, uncollected, and unpublished prose. The fully searchable, integrative edition includes all of Eliot's collected essays, reviews, lectures, commentaries from The Criterion, and letters to editors, including more than 700 uncollected and 150 unpublished pieces from 1905 to 1965 and much more.
World Folklore and Folklife
This source describes the rich tradition of holidays, festivals, language, stories and fairy tales, proverbs, foodways, and folk remedies that define our society.
Fine Arts
Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that support research in the fields of drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.
New York Times Online
Access includes everything The New York Times offers: News, Games, Cooking, Wirecutter, The Athletic.
New users must setup free account first.
Login here to view the NewYork Times Online. Or go directly to NYTimes.com once you have created your free account.

If you do not already have an account and you are on campus, you can go directly to nytimes.com and an activation window will pop-up on the site, after 8 seconds.
Britannica Academic
Offers the complete Encyclopedia Britannica online as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus.

Spartan Search

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Search across the entire library catalog (books, DVDs, government documents)
and most of the library databases (journal articles, images, newspapers).

Another Way to Search

Use Google Scholar for a broader search.

If you find an article or book, not in full-text, request it from another library.

Article/Book Request Form
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Email questions about requests to ILLRequest@ut.edu
Google Scholar
A great place to start research that includes many UTampa databases. (PDF Handout Notes)

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