Source Type | Search Here | Sample Search Terms |
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Scholarly Articles | Library databases or Library advanced search - choose books and more |
Title of your musical, the writer/composer, or song + a theme Example: West Side Story For contextual information, try searching other databases like those in sociology. Example: urban AND New York AND 1960s (there are many possible variations of this search) |
Scholarly Books | Choose Library Catalog on the library advanced search | General keywords such as "West Side Story" or "musical theatre" |
Reviews | New York Times Historical | "West Side Story", limit search by year to 1961-1962, look for reviews in results |
Other Primary Sources | This guide will help you think about what a primary source is; Google or film streaming services might be a starting place to locate your primary source. If you have questions, ask your librarian or professor. |
Multidisciplinary
Features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 journals.
Members of the public can read online up to three articles for free every two weeks from a large subset of JSTOR journals via the Register & Read program. This program allows remote access. Non-UT students, faculty and staff who need more articles can contact library staff for other access options.
For more information on ebooks see the Ebook Guide
Use this link to access Google Scholar, and see our Google Scholar Guide for information on using this resource.
If you encounter a warning about the security certificate when using the FindIt@UT tool in Google Scholar, you can learn more about that using this guide.
Subject-Specific
Theatre
For help searching the MLA International Bibliography, please see the MLA's video tutorials.
Film
Search this database along with its two companion databases (American Film Institute Catalog and Film Index International) at the Screen Studies Collection.
History
Sociology
Theatre Reviews
More recent years are also available in other full text resources.
Streaming video of productions
Users may also make isolated clips from the videos and save them in a free account available for registration set up within the database.
Information on basic system requirements for both PC and Mac platforms is available on the site.
This streaming service has a catalog of over 30,000 titles covering various educational topics and feature films for some 800 producers including Criterion, Documentary Educational Resources, New Day Films, Media Education, California Newsreel, PBS and others.
Titles streamed by Kanopy are available either directly from the library catalog or from the UT Kanopy interface linked above. Some titles on the UT Kanopy interface are not immediately available to UT community for streaming. Those titles for which we do not hold streaming rights could be requested by filling in a request form. This form would appear on your screen and forwarded to a staff member for consideration. Given our limited funds, we emphasize study and research needs when making purchase decisions.
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