Research support for students in DANC 1104. These pages are in the process of being updated; please check back again for more information, links, documents, and ideas.
Dance Online: Dance in VideoThis link opens in a new windowStreaming video. Contains 600 works (365 hours) of dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century, including ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, plus forerunners of the forms and more.
Academic Search CompleteThis link opens in a new windowJournal articles. A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary resource providing access to thousands of full-text periodicals, many of which are peer-reviewed.
JSTOR (Arts & Sciences I-XV, Ecology & Botany I, Life Sciences)This link opens in a new windowJournal articles. Includes full-text, scholarly articles from more than 1,400 academic journals in the humanities and more. Does not include the most recent 3 years or so.
Link to website. Use these collections to help identify resources on your dance topic, then check the Eli M. Oboler Library Catalog to see if we own the items. If not, you may request these items via Interlibrary Loan. Note that archival collection materials are probably not available.
DANC 1104 Handouts
Refer to these documents for more help with your dance research.
Think through your search topic and come up with alternate keywords; formulate a search string you can use in many resources to retrieve great results.
Applying the CRAAP Test: Criteria for Evaluation. Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, and Purpose. Determine the suitability of information you find on the Internet and elsewhere!
This list is the resource to use if you have a journal article citation and need to know if the Oboler Library subscribes to the journal in print or in electronic format.
