Selected Streaming Databases
There are plenty more! Visit the Streaming Databases for the complete list.
- Academic Video Online: Premium This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive multidisciplinary academic streaming video collection. Includes newsreels, award-winning documentaries, field recordings, interviews, lectures, training videos, and exclusive primary footage.
- Audio Drama: The L.A. Theater Works CollectionAudio recordings of the dramatic works from the curated archive of the nation’s premiere radio theatre company.
- BBC Shakespeare Plays This link opens in a new window
Streaming video collection of the complete dramatic works of William Shakespeare broadcast by the BBC in the 1980s.
- Films on Demand: Master Academic Collection This link opens in a new window
Educational, close-captioned videos on all subject areas. Includes archival film and newsreels, documentaries and films from producers such as A&E, BBC learning, and PBS.An external tool is available in Canvas to embed Films on Demand videos.
- Kanopy Streaming This link opens in a new window
Streaming videos from BBC, PBS, Documentary Educational Resources, Criterion Collection and others. The platform allows you to make playlists and clips, and share links.
- American Music This link opens in a new windowRecordings of American roots music and pre-1960 American popular music. Includes country, slave, spiritual, folk, bluegrass, Western, old time, American Indian, blues, gospel, and shape note singing. 1911 to present.
- Classical Music Library This link opens in a new windowNearly one million recordings. Includes major genres and time periods, from choral works to symphonies, operas and the avant-garde, from medieval to contemporary.
- Contemporary World Music This link opens in a new windowLarge international collection of contemporary recordings including The Voice of the People, a 20-volume series of English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh traditional music.
- Dance in Video This link opens in a new windowPerformances and productions by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th and 21st centuries. Search and browse by performer, dance company, technique, genre, choreographer, or venue. 1955 to present.
- Digital Theatre Plus This link opens in a new windowBritish theatrical productions and behind-the-scenes documentaries and interviews with professionals from all aspects of bringing a play to the stage.
- DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music) This link opens in a new windowRecordings by New World Records and other independent labels. Includes a wide range of genres. 1975 to present.
- Drama Online This link opens in a new windowClassical works to contemporary plays combined with critical analysis, contextual information, biographies, genres and Nick Hern books.
- Jazz Music Library This link opens in a new windowThousands of recordings of jazz music by performers from legendary record labels. Browse by instrument category, genre and sub-genre, artist and ensemble. 1920s to present.
- Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
Classical music from Medieval to contemporary. Access over 98,000 CDs from the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues plus the complete catalogues or selected titles from over 375 classical, jazz and world music labels.
- Speech Accent Archive This link opens in a new window
Contains audio speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds, including native and non-native speakers of English.
- Swank Digital Campus This link opens in a new windowA selection of feature films from well-known studios such as MGM, Miramax, United Artists, Columbia Pictures, and Dreamworks. These films are NOT LICENSED for public events. They may be streamed only in a face-to-face classroom setting or for individual use.
- Victorian Popular Culture This link opens in a new window
Graphically rich primary sources depicting popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Databases for Criticism & Reviews
See also the entire Theater & Performing Arts database list, the Newspaper databases, and possibly the Literature and Language databases for more search options.
- Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Includes reviews, critical analysis, film and television theory, preservation and restoration, writing, production, cinematography, and technical aspect. 1914 to present.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowSearches scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, and technical reports.
- Humanities Source This link opens in a new window
Encompasses all key fields of the humanities. Includes articles, interviews, obituaries, original works of fiction, drama, poetry, and reviews. Indexing from 1900, full text from 1909 to present.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowScholarly journals and books. Access begins with the first volume for many journal titles, but usually does not have the newest volumes of each journal.
- Literature Online (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowEnglish & American poetry, prose and drama from the 8th century to the present day plus journals, criticism & reference resources on authors and their works.
- Gale Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Information about and criticisms of authors, novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers. Includes several major Gale publications such as Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and Contemporary Authors. Current.
- MLA International BibliographyContains article citations from scholarly journals, chapters of books, and dissertations. Our provider for MLA is EbscoHost. Although MLA does not include the full-text of articles, it does link to the articles if it is available in another EbscoHost database that we provide access.
- Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Journals and ebooks from major university presses on literature and criticism, history, performing arts, cultural studies, education, philosophy, political science, gender studies, and more.
Advanced Searching for Literature Reviews
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science) This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary index to the most cited journal literature of the arts and humanities. Covers over 1100 journals spanning 25 disciplines. 1975 to present.
- Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new windowWorld's largest collection of full-text theses and dissertations. 1861 to present.
- WorldCat (public version) This link opens in a new windowIndexes items owned by libraries throughout the U.S. internationally. Items not owned by Texas State may be requestable via interlibrary loan. For more search options, use WorldCat on FirstSearch.
