Dance Research Tips Subject Guide
Articles in Journals and Magazines
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Use these indexes and databases to identify articles in journals, magazines, and other periodicals and publications.
International Index to Performing Arts
This database provides coverage of dance, film, television, drama, theater, stagecraft, and more, indexes more than 250 performing arts journals and provides full text for more than 100 journals. Coverage varies.
ProQuest Research Library
Indexes popular magazines, scholarly journals, newspapers and trade publications in a wide range of subject areas, including business, education, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Full-text available for over 2,500 journals. Coverage from 1971.
Librarian's Comment: Includes recent articles from Dance Chronicle, Dance Magazine, Dance Research Journal, Dance Spirit, Dance Teacher.
Wilson Select Plus
Index to full text articles in science, humanities, social sciences, education and business. The index includes records from: Readers' Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, General Science Abstracts and Wilson Business Abstracts. Coverage: 1994 to the present. Updated weekly.
JSTOR
Full-text access to selected scholarly journals in a number of humanities and social sciences disciplines. Search by individual title or in the whole collection. This database contains only back issues and does not include issues of the most recent 3 to 5 years.
Librarian's Comment: Includes articles from older issues of Dance Chronicle, Dance Research Journal, Dance Research.
New York Public Library Performing Arts CatalogOnline catalog of NYPL's comprehensive performing arts collections. May be used to locate citations of books and articles (no full text). Select "Performing Arts--Dance" collection.
Physical Education Index
Indexes more than 230,000 articles in health, physical education, recreation, athletic training and dance. Coverage: 1970-present. Updated monthly.
Medline (FirstSearch)
The major index to medical research, from clinical medicine to cellular and biomolecular biology. Produced by the US National Library of Medicine. Coverage: 1965 - present. Updated daily.
- RefWorks Info: Medline will export marked citations directly into your RefWorks account. (You will be prompted to login.)
Dance Reviews and Current EventsA list of online sources for reviews of dance performances and current events in the dance world. More info

Librarian's Comment: IIPA indexes 35 dance journals.