Books: Use the Library Catalog

Search the Millsaps Library Catalog

Can’t find a book on your topic at Millsaps? Search Worldcat catalog of books and other materials in libraries around the world. Click on a book title and then click, “Get this item from another library. (Interlibrary Loan)” to request the book. It will arrive in 1-2 weeks.

Articles in Journals/Magazines

Academic Search Premier (Ebsco)
Provides full text for more than 3,430 scholarly publications.

Art Index
Art Index indexes over 400 art journals published throughout the world covering the fields of Advertising Art, Antiques, Archaeology, Architecture and Architectural History, Art History, Computers in Art, Crafts, Decorative Arts, Fashion Design, Folk Art, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Motion Pictures, Museology, Non-Western Art, Painting, Photography, Pottery, Sculpture, Television, Textiles, Video.

Arts & Humanities Search
Indexes many leading journals; online version of Arts & Humanities Citation Index.

Project Muse
Index and full text of journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Project MUSE offers nearly 250 quality journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers. As one of the academic community's primary electronic journals resources, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature is an international bibliography of scholarly writings on music as well as music-related disciplines. Dating from 1967 through the present, this database offers indexing of sources published in over 140 languages.

Web Sites

American variety stage
This multimedia anthology selected from various Library of Congress holdings remains a readily accessible source of examples of American popular culture as it appeared on variety stages, especially vaudeville that thrived from 1870 to 1920.

Didaskalia
Didaskalia is an electronic journal and resource dedicated to the study of ancient Greek and Roman drama in performance.

Library of Congress: Music, Theater & Dance
Browse the Library of Congress's unsurpassed collections of scores, sheet music, audio recordings, films, photographs, maps, and other materials.

Dictionaries

Oxford Reference Online -- Performing Arts
The Oxford Companion to American Theatre, The Oxford Dictionary of Dance, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music, The Oxford Companion to Music, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera, Who's Who in Opera The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare, The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre

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Encyclopedias

Encyclopaedia Britannica
Full text, online version of EB.