| Resource Name & Link to Resource: | AHDS Performing Arts |
| Description: | Coverage includes dance, music, theatre, film and the broadcast arts. Collections are sourced from research and digitization projects in UK higher education departments and also from the cultural heritage sector(s), including database catalogs and finding aids of the Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture, Scottish Screen Archive, and Cecilia. Other database collections searchable online include the Bach Bibliography Database, North African Film and Filmmakers Dictionary, BBC Radio 4 'Analysis' Database, and Royal Shakespeare Company Archives 'FESTE' Database. In addition, collections comprising the output of digitization projects (Designing Shakespeare, Five Centuries of Scottish Music, etc.) offer searchable and browseable access to digital versions of archive materials including music scores, photographs, video and audio materials. In most cases these materials can be freely downloaded for use in an educational context. Part of the Arts and Humanities Data Service. |
| Resource Type(s): | All Relevant Database(s), Audio Collection, E-Book(s), Image Collection, Video |
| Access information: | Free resource - available to everyone on the Internet |
| Fulltext: | Fulltext is available. |
| Vendor Name: | Arts and Humanities Data Service |
| Research Guides: | Music, Theatre |
| Special usage notes: | Many of the items available through this service are full-text. For electronic access to articles from journals cited in this database, search the journal title in the E-Journals Database. To see if we own a paper copy of the work, search the title in our online catalog, InfoKat. If we do not own the item in any format, and you are a UK-affiliate, you may request it through Interlibrary Loan. |
