Follow these links to search all eJournals or databases available to you:
Search All will search across the majority of our online resources
Pick your subject from the A-Z list for a full list of eJournals in this subject area
Select a database from the A-Z Databases list
Journal
A journal is a publication which may be issued weekly, monthly or quarterly or bi-annually. Also, the intended readership for a journal is the academic community. The contributors to journal articles are specialists in their particular discipline. Some journals are peer reviewed meaning that the articles are reviewed by an editorial board prior to publication. When searching for a particular journal in the library take note of the volume and issue numbers of the particular issue you require.
You could begin your search for journals via the TU Dublin city library home page. You may link here to the TU Dublin city library home page. From there you can make a selection depending on your search requirements. For more detailed searching link here to the advanced library catalogue.
Database
A database is an organised store of data which describes a collection of particular items, for example a library catalogue. A journals database describes the contents of articles within a collection of journals. Each article is given a record. Each record is composed of different fields, for example, author, title and journal title. Some databases are full text.
| Database | Scope | Fulltext |
| Academic Search Complete |
Multidisciplinary database. May search more than one database simultaneously. |
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| Arrow | Archiving Research Resources on the Web is a digital collection of research publications produced by researchers at DIT. All items in this collection are full text. This collection is being developed and is not currently a full listing. |
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| Cambridge Journals Online | Drawing on more than 450 journals, 1.2 million articles and over 6 million pages of rich content, Cambridge journals digital archive offers a vast and user-friendly resource that allows researchers to place current research in historical context. This collection compliments our Cambridge Journals Online collection. Tick the "Only search content I have access to" check box, upon entering the database to retrieve Full text journal content. Tip: If you search the database by subject you could select:: Drama, Theatre, Performance Studies |
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| Drama Online | ||
| Literature Online | Proquest database "combining the texts of over 355,000 literary works with a vast library of key criticism and reference resources." | |
| Nexis UK | Useful for theatre reviews. Also access to international newspapers. |
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| Oxford Reference Online |
Two million digitized entries across Oxford’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias, spanning 25 different subject areas. Useful as starting point for research. Section on Performing Arts. |
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| English Drama | Database available on the Proquest platform. In excess of 3900 plays in verse and prose from the late 13th century to the early twentieth century. | |
| Twentieth Century Drama | Contains both the works of noted playwrights and lesser known dramatists. Includes the works of Harold Pinter, Eugene O'Neill, Noel Coward and Sean O Casey. | |
| Theatre and Video | This database is now part of a new subscription to Theatre Performance & Design Collection.
Please click on My Collections, then choose Theatre in Video, Volume I or Volume II to access content. Theatre in Video contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all. |
Access A-Z list of databases here.
Before you begin your search clarify if you need to do a topic search or are you searching for a specific text which you need to access for a particular assignment? If you need to search for a specific book I recommend you do a title or author search as your search results will be more specific. Link here. to the library advanced search where you can search either for a specific title, or peform a topic search. Using the advanced search catalogue enables you to combine keywords and narrow your search to a particular format for example e-books, or journals.
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