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New York Public Library Dance Collection Catalog

Serves as an index to an international range of dance periodicals. Contains records to materials (books, periodicals, articles, films and videos, sound recordings, photographs, etc.) held in the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Dance Collection.

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Physical Education Index

Covers a broad range of PE topics ranging from physical education curricula, to sports medicine, to dance.
Indexing and abstracts (after 2001) for peer-reviewed journals, report literature, conference proceedings, trade magazines, patents, articles from the popular press, and many other publications.

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1970 - current

Internet Resources for Music, Theater and Dance

Internet Resources for Music, Theater and Dance (Performing Arts Reading Room, Music Division, Library of Congress)

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Artslynx International Dance Resources

Serves as comprehensive index to dance related web sites. Links to other mega sites for dance research on the web. A very comprehensive collection of African and African American dance links.

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Dance - a guide to Web resources

Sites selected for the general academic dance community, with a primary focus on ballet and modern dance.

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New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts houses the world's most extensive combination of circulating, reference, and rare archival collections in its field. The Library also offers a wide range of special programs, including exhibitions in its two galleries, and seminars and performances in the Bruno Walter Auditorium. These Library materials and programs are available free of charge.

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Selected Dance Resources on the Internet

Links to dance resources.

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Academic Search Complete

A recommended multidisciplinary resource to begin your research in all subject areas. Contains full text for more than half the journals covered.

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Indexing for over 10,000 publications, with full text for more than 6,100. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

ArticleFirst

Indexes 12,500 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.

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1990 to the present.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
On-campus users will see additional links to ”Full Text” and ”IDS (ILL)” which will lead to resources available from Milne Library. To have these links available off campus, use ”Scholar Preferences” to set ”SUNY Geneseo” as the ”Library Link.”

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JSTOR

JSTOR, a multidisciplinary database, provides the full text of many scholarly journals in the humanities, sciences and social sciences back to their beginning.

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Full text beginning as far back as 1665.

ProQuest

A recommended multidisciplinary resource to begin your research in all subject areas. Abstracts and full text for both popular magazines and scholarly journals.

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Includes ABI/INFORM Global, American Medical Association, Platinum Periodicals, ProQuest Education Journals, ProQuest Health Management, ProQuest Psychology Journals, ProQuest Social Science Journals, and ProQuest Reference & Research Library.

Scopus

Scopus is an extensive database for scholarly journal articles in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields.

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Scopus covers titles continuously from 1996 onwards, including citation data. Some content is available back into the 1960s. Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database. It covers:

• Life Sciences >3,400 titles
• Health Sciences > 5,300 titles (including 100% coverage of Medline titles)
• Physical Sciences > 5,500 titles
• Social Sciences > 2,850 titles