This database provides cross-searchable access to all of the video databases that the Marriott Library subscribes to through Alexander Street Press. Content and coverage of this database will change as the databases it contains are updated, removed, or added to. More details about the collections that can be searched through this listing are provided on this database's search page.

Includes BBC Shakespeare Plays.

Art Full Text is a database that features full-text articles, abstracting and indexing of a number of peer-selected publications, podcasts, and page images. The subjects covered by this database include fine, decorative, and commercial art, photography, folk art, film, architecture, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism. The database also indexes a growing selection of Latin American, Canadian, Asian, and non-Western art. The full text is provided for articles from more than 270 periodicals as far back as 1997, along with indexing and abstracting of over 600 periodicals as far back as 1984 (including 260 peer-reviewed journals), as well as over 18,000 art dissertations, art reproduction records, and more. The database is updated daily and as new information is available.

Current Artstor platform expected retirement of the site/URL at the end of July 2024. Artstor content will be migrated to the Jstor platform. To log into Artstor from off campus, you must first register a (free) account within Artstor while on campus IP address, either on campus or through EZProxy.

Artstor is a digital library of more than one million images and 360 panoramas of art, architecture, cultural objects, maps, ephemera, and more. It provides a set of tools to view, present, and manage images. Artstor collections comprise contributions from museums, libraries, photo archives, scholars, artists and artists' estates, and photographers. There are more than 150 separate collections in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences included in the database.

African-American newspaper published in Atlanta, Georgia. This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.

This database contains over 1300 plays by over 200 playwrights, together with information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays. Over 500 of the plays are published there for the first time. The works from early 20th-century America include writings of the Harlem Renaissance, works performed for the Federal Theatre Project, and plays by dramatists through the 1940s. African and Caribbean drama is represented by a collection of plays from Ghana, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, the West Indies, the United Kingdom, and other parts of the world.

Digital Theatre+ provides access to over 2000 videos, including international staged productions, interviews, documentaries, and trainings. It also provides scripts, essays, study guides, workbooks, and a few theatre-related poems, short stories, and graphic novels. Instructors will also find lesson plans and other training resources. Marriott Library’s subscription will end in February 2027.

Early English Books Online contains over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475 - 1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641 - 1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640 - 1661). The collection primarily features digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473 - 1700, from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War.

The largest and most comprehensive resource available for all those involved in the study of modernism from students to academics. Interdisciplinary and global content about the Modernist period. The content is fully cross-referenced, allowing for greater discoverability between fields, and covers eight key subject areas: Literature, Architecture, Visual Arts, Music, Dance, Theatre, Film, and Intellectual Currents. Researchers can browse by subject, movement, or place in order to discover connections between key topics and fields

This database provides access to over 70,000 essays contained in more than 7,000 anthologies and collections. The database contains over 300 collections which are indexed annually, plus more than 20 selected annuals and serials. Coverage spans the a range of subjects in the humanities and social sciences, including literary works, art history, drama, and film.

This database provides access to a large collection of educational films which can be streamed online. Some of the publishers whose films appear in this database are ABC News, American Experience, TED, BBC Films, Frontline, NOVA, PBS, Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Ken Burns, The Open University, and California Newsreel, among others. Films may be viewed individually or used by faculty as instructional material for courses.

Explore America’s transformative age of industrialization, expanding wealth, inequality and social change. Personal collections, business records and rich visual content offer fresh perspectives on this influential period.

Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) focusing on the 15th century forward. Topics include world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and others. The collection indexes more than 3,100 academic historical journals in over 40 languages. Coverage dates vary by title.

International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text contains the full text of over 100 serial titles, including Canadian Theatre Review, Dance Chronicle, Dance Teacher, Modern Drama, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Research in Dance Education, Research in Drama Education, Studies in Theatre and Performance, TDR: The Drama Review, Theater, and many more. Also includes the full text of over 50 books & monographs.

This bibliographic database contains more than 1.1 million citations for secondary source material about the European Middle Ages and Renaissance, 400-1700. Also includes access to Iter Italicum, a finding list of previously uncatalogued or incompletely cataloged Renaissance humanistic manuscripts in libraries and collections around the world.

JSTOR Archival Journals and Primary Sources Collection provides full-text access to all content that the Jstor publishes. The majority of the database is archival content, and new issues are added to the collection periodically. New content may not appear in JSTOR until months or years after its initial publication date, and update frequencies for journals vary by title and publisher. Current Artstor platform expected retirement of the site/URL at the end of July 2024. Artstor content will be migrated to the Jstor platform. Artstor content can be found at https://www.jstor.org/images.

This database contains more than 100,000 pages of poetry, fiction, and drama written in English and Spanish by hundreds of Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latin authors working in the United States. Numerous Chicano folk tales, audio files of selected poems and plays are included. Nearly 800 items (poems, novels, and plays) in the collection have never been published before.

Please note that information from this database may only be used for personal and noncommercial purposes. Your use of the database constitutes acceptance of this restriction.

This database provides access to information about more than 7,000 materials and design processes in a variety of fields of design, with information on over 40 new materials added to the library every month.

Includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals

This database consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. It provides access to records in over 3,000 journals and series, as well as a collection of monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats.

The National Theatre Collection is a multimedia database made possible by an exclusive collaboration with the U.K.'s National Theatre to offer a range of digital performance resources never previously seen outside of the National Theatre's archive. Exclusive digitized archival materials are presented alongside videos to present a holistic view of the stagecraft involved in supporting world-class productions.

This database provides access to the searchable text of the New York Times. Many parts of the text besides the articles themselves are also searchable, including short items like stock quotes, broadcast schedules, display and classified ads. Articles can be displayed in their page context and one can read through an issue page by page.

Description: North American Indian Drama contains 244 plays by 48 playwrights representing the stories and creative energies of American Indian and First Nation playwrights of the twentieth century. More than half of the works are previously unpublished, and hard to find, representing groups such as Cherokee, MÃtis, Creek, Choctaw, Pembina Chippewa, Ojibway, Lenape, Comanche, Cree, Navajo, Rappahannock, Hawaiian/Samoan, and others. Together, the plays demonstrate Native theater's diversity of tribal traditions and approaches to drama melding conventional dramatic form with ancient storytelling and ritual performance elements, experimenting with traditional ideas of time and narrative, or challenging Western dramatic structure.

OntheBoards.tv provides access to works by the leading voices from the field of contemporary performance.

This database provides access to a variety of classic and historical plays, including the plays of Aeschylus and Euripides, Moliere's works, Shakespeare's dramas, works of George Bernard Shaw or Ibsen, and a variety of others that have been reprinted in collections and anthologies. The database also covers the works of contemporary playwrights, including new editions or translations.

Pro Sound Effects® (PSE - CORE6 Complete Bundle) is a database of curated sound effects. The database contains over 1 million sounds and more than 357,000 files. The database draws on the feature films and TV shows across 30 years and from a global network of recordists. Sound files are organized in more than 500 categories and include ambiences, urban and natural soundscapes, animals, vehicles, foley effects, sound design elements and much more. All sounds are royalty free. Access is via a web-based Pro Sound Effects Library Access Portal. The interface permits searching, browsing, and previewing. Users can create playlists or projects, and can download files and sounds.

The Project Muse eBook collections provide access to nearly 50,000 scholarly books from more than one-hundred scholarly presses. Subjects included in the collection include archaeology, anthropology, classical studies, ecology, film, theater, music, education, history, language and linguistics, literature, philosophy and religion, political science, psychology, public health, African studies, Asian and Pacific studies, Jewish studies, Latin American and Caribbean studies, Middle Eastern studies, Native American and Indigenous studies, Russian and East European studies. This Evidence-Based Acquisition program will run June 2022-May 2023.

These high-definition, surround-sound recordings of William Shakespeare's plays offer access to 9 performances filmed before live audiences from 2018-2019 at the Royal Shakespeare Company's Stratford-upon-Avon theater.

These high-definition, surround-sound recordings of William Shakespeare's plays offer access to 17 performances filmed before live audiences from 2013-2017 at the Royal Shakespeare Company Stratford-upon-Avon theater.

Shakespeare in Performance showcases rare and unique prompt books from the world-famous Folger Shakespeare Library. These prompt books tell the story of Shakespeare’s plays as they were performed in theatres throughout Great Britain, the United States and internationally, between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries.

This collection of documents offers insights into the performance practice in the particular space of the reconstructed Globe Theatre. It details the way in which the theatre was constructed as a place of radical experiment. It documents over 200 performances through prompt books, wardrobe notes, programs, publicity material, annual reports, show reports, photographs and architectural plans.

Swank Digital Campus streams feature films, documentaries, foreign films, and television episodes from most major movie studios. The core collection includes the 1000 most popular titles for academic users. Additional titles are selected to support specific UofU courses and research.

Theatre in Video provides access to streaming videos of over 360 performances of the world's plays and film documentaries as well as a collection of filmed interviews with playwrights, actors, and directors, totaling nearly 500 hours of content. Faculty and students who create an account (for free) can save and share playlists, save selected clips from any video, and link to clips created by others.

Twentieth Century North American Drama contains 1,905 plays by 419 playwrights, and more than 150 of the plays are published here for the first time, including a number by major authors. This collection offers a unique window into the economic, historical, social, and political psyche of two countries. Scholars and students who use the database will have a new way to study the signal events of the twentieth century—including the Depression, the role of women, the Cold War, and more—through the plays and performances of writers who lived through these decades.

Showcasing the British Film Institute’s Victorian Film Collection and the Mitchell and Kenyon Collection, Victorians on Film provides a glimpse into the lives of the late Victorians and Edwardians captured by some of Britain’s earliest film pioneers and innovators.