Journal and Magazine Article Databases
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- Performing Arts Periodicals Database This link opens in a new window
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Articles and reviews from a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry - including dance, drama, theater, stagecraft, circus, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic, performance art, film, television, and more. Former database title: International Index to Performing Arts (IIPA) Full Text. - Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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A multidisciplinary database that indexes over 10,000 publications, with the complete text of over 5,500 periodicals, including a mix of peer-reviewed journals, magazines, and newspapers. - Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
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EIMA is an historical archive of major trade and consumer magazines in film, television, music, radio, and theater, from their inception to 2000. Includes weekly Variety, Hollywood Reporter, American Cinematographer, Back Stage, Billboard, Broadcasting, Picturegoer, Screen International, Spin, and more. UCLA has access to parts I, II and III of this database. - JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Full text of core scholarly journals from their beginning to approximately five years ago. Disciplines include botany, business, ecology, general science, humanities, mathematics, social sciences, statistics. Browsable by discipline and full-text searchable across all disciplines. UCLA has access to selected JSTOR e-books. - Literature Online This link opens in a new window
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Also known as LION. An array of literary databases (including the full text of poems, plays, and fiction), reference works (including bibliographies, encyclopedias, etc.), and links to other Web resources for the study of literature. The complete text of journal articles is available on the database for all or some of the journals indexed. Fully searchable texts of over 250,000 works in English and American Literature. - Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
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Full text of current issues (from about 1990) of scholarly journals published by university presses, chiefly in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Browsable by discipline and full-text searchable across all disciplines. UCLA has access to Muse e-books published from 2017-present, plus a selected number of other e-book titles. - MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
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Indexes worldwide publications on literature, language, linguistics, folklore, film, television, and theater from 1923 to the present. See also the MLA Directory of Periodicals.
- World Shakespeare Bibliography OnlineAnnotated entries on Shakespeare for books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, and more.
Selected Magazines and Journals
- Written ByThe magazine of the Writers Guild of America West.
- ScriptScript has been the leading source for information on the craft and business of writing for film and television since 1995. With inside information, articles written by working writers and filmmakers, and in-depth interviews, Script is the resource on every scriptwriter’s must-read list. Earlier print issues available for 1995-2012.
- American Theatre MagazineAmerican Theatre magazine is the nation’s only general-circulation magazine devoted to theatre. Founded in 1984 by the pioneering arts service organization Theatre Communications Group.
- Backstage MagazineBackstage, also previously written as Back Stage, is an American entertainment industry trade publication.
- Creative ScreenwritingWashington, DC: Creative Screenwriters Group. Vol. 1, no. 1 (spring 1994)-Ceased with v. 18, no. 4 (July/Aug. 2011).
- Hollywood ScriptwriterPeriodical that ran from 1980-2006. Earliest issues were titled Hollywood Scriptletter.
- PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art
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PAJ explores innovative work in theatre, performance art, dance, video, writing, technology, sound, and music, bringing together all live arts in thoughtful cultural dialogue. Issues include critical essays, artists’ writings, interviews, plays, drawings, and notations, with extended coverage of performance, festivals, and books. - Play a Journal of Plays"The Journal was founded in 2003 by playwrights Sylvan Oswald and Jordan Harrison in the hope of providing a home for work that is graphically unusual, formally adventurous, and sometimes willfully unproducible. Under the umbrella of Paper Theatre, the Journal has published over fifty new works that are not merely instruction manuals for a performance – they are performances in their own right, on the printed page." -- From Website