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Referencing resources
We have a number of bibliographic referencing tools. More information can be found in our Referencing Software guide. Refworks is a web-based tool and can be used online without installing software. There are also some excellent free resources such as Mendeley.
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Useful Arts Databases
- Arts and Humanities Citation Index This link opens in a new windowindex of articles from over 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and relevant articles, reviews, proceedings in more than 5,000 social science and science journals.
- CREDO Reference This link opens in a new windowoffers over 650 major reference books - dictionaries, encyclopaedias, thesauri, biographies, books of quotations, atlases and quick reference works on every subject
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowperiodicals archive of over 2,000 leading scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. Over fifty million pages of content
- ProQuest One Literature This link opens in a new windowFull-text of more than 500,000 primary works (poetry, drama and prose from the eighth century to the present) including rare texts, multiple versions and non-traditional sources like comics, theatre performances and author readings. Citations to journals, monographs,dissertations and book reviews, many of which are in full-text.
- MLA International Bibliography (via EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowindex to papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies on literature, language, linguistics and folklore, from 1926 onward. Produced by the Modern Language Association of America
Reference Resources
Credo Reference is a collection of serveral hundred major reference books including dictionaries, encyclopaedias and thesauri with a number of reference materials for the arts including:
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Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World: Locations
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Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World: Media, Industry and Society
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Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World: Performance and Production
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The Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music
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The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music
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The Harvard Dictionary of Music
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Metropolitan Opera Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Guide to the World of Opera
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The New Penguin Dictionary of Music
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Opera: The Great Composers and their Masterworks
Oxford Reference Online includes
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The Oxford Companion to the American Musical
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The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
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The Oxford Dictionary of Dance
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
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The Oxford Companion to Music
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A Dictionary of Opera Characters
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The Grove Book of Opera Singers
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The Grove Book of Operas
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera
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The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare
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The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance
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The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Oxford Art Online includes
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Grove Art Online
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The Oxford Companion to Western Art
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Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
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