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North American Theatre Online
North American Theatre Online
is the largest reference initiative ever undertaken in this subject
area, a major reference tool containing tens of thousands of pages of
key, in-copyright reference works available electronically for the first
time.
The database includes additional reference details that are unique to
this resource—hundreds of thousands of bibliographic records with rich
information about authors, plays, theatres, productions, production
companies, casts, and related information. The database is ever-growing
and aims to cover the world of theatre from colonial times to the
present.
North American Theatre Online
also links you to a world of information at hundreds of the best sites
on the Web for drama research, editorially selected by our advisors.
And finally, the project is the tool for cross-searching all the
Alexander Street Press full-text drama collections, then linking through
to the full-text of the plays that your library is licensed to access.
CONTENT
North
American Theatre Online
uses Alexander Street Conductor™ technology.
With one
search across all of the components within the database the Conductor
will orchestrate the search results into a single, unified results set.
Hyperlink easily to and from production information, author information,
theatre information, and all the other elements:
Full-text reference works:
More than 40,000 pages of
important reference sources are here in electronic format for the first
time, indexed and searchable along with all the other content. O’Dell’s
Annals of the New York Stage, the Oxford University Press Companion
series, and Greenwood’s American Theatre Companies series are just a
few of the many in-copyright sources.
Bibliographic
information:
More than 20 fields allow you to search by location, date,
format, number of characters, theatre style, production company, and a rich
thesaurus of other search terms. In-depth records cover tens of thousands of
plays, including many
previously unpublished works by major authors—not only major
and known plays, but also partial works, works that have never been
performed, and works that were believed lost, providing researchers with
unique and never-before-seen information.
Related resources:
There are tens of
thousands of playbills, posters, photographs, and related theatrical
ephemera.
Web resources:
Editorially selected Web resources take you to the best
of the Web in theatre. Unlike a traditional Web search, the Semantic
Indexing will integrate results from the various Web sites with
details from the other content in the database
PUBLICATION DETAILS
North American Theatre Online is available on the Web and
includes:
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40,000-plus pages of essential, in-copyright reference texts in this
area, licensed from major publishers, electronic, indexed, and
cross-searchable for the first time.
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Related resources, including posters, playbills, photos, architectural
images, floor plans, and ephemera.
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Links to hundreds of editorially selected theatre Web resources.
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Hundreds of thousands of bibliographic records, unique to this resource,
detailing people, plays, theatres, productions, production companies,
cast lists, credit lists, and other information.
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Alexander Street’s Semantic Indexing™
throughout, for searching in new ways.
North American Theatre Online
is included
in Alexander Street Drama.
You can acquire North American Theatre Online as a standalone
research tool. Or, subscribe to the Alexander Street
Drama package, which includes the following collections, all
cross-searchable:
Libraries may subscribe annually or make a one-time purchase
of perpetual rights. Please contact us for details. |
