This Subject Guide page contains Websites, Online Resources, Books, Journals and a Toolbox.

Websites

The websites for The Arden are listed on a seperate page.

Online Resources

Some of the journals listed below have electronic versions available as part of our subscription. You willl need a username and password which you can obtain by following the instructions given. Others will have supporting material and some issues available freely on their website.

Infotrac

The College Library subscribes to a large number of electronic journals and magazines through a service called 'Infotrac'. If you have never used 'Infotrac' and need help here is a short user guide. There is also a guide to Infotrac in the Subject inductions section.

International Index to Performing Arts - IIPA FT

This is a similar database to Infotrac, but covers over 250 Performing Arts journals (over 80 in full text). However, we only have licences for two users , so you may have to wait to log on. There is a guide to IIPA in the Subject inductions section of the Learning Centres' website.

International Index to Performing Arts - IIPA - for Theatre Studies

By the end of this guided search you will be able to access the database, locate an articles using keywords, retrieve and view results, refine your search to make it more relevant, mark and email records.

International Index to Performing Artsn(IIPA FT) Guided Search

By the end of this guided search you will be able to access the database, locate an articles using keywords, retrieve and view results, refine your search to make it more relevant, mark and email records.

Literature Online

Provides access to over 100,000 literary texts and thousands of secondary article

Myilibrary

Myilibrary is a growing collection of electronic books or ebooks. The full texts of these books are available electronically and the collection is expanding all the time. At the moment they are limited mainly to theatre, performance and marketing. Follow the link here and click "all books" to see the collection

Books

Subject Shelf Mark
Costume History 391
Alexander Technique 615.82
Theatre building design 725.822
Musicals - sheet music 782.14
Vocal and audition music 782.42
Film studies 791.43
Performance art 792.015
Production techniques 792.02
Scene design 792.025
Acting techniques 792.028
Voice techniques 792.0285
Theatre guides and dictionaries 792.03
Theatre history 792.09
Theatre biographies 792.092
Musical theatre 792.6
Dance 792.8
Monologues, duologues, audition 808.8245
World drama, non-specific 809.2
American drama 812
British drama 822
Shakespeare 822.33
Victorian drama 822.8
British drama 1900-1945 822.912
British drama 1945-1999 822.914
Drama from other countries - German, Franch, Czech, Greek, Russian etc. 832 - 882
Careers in f ilm, televison and video 791.023
Careers in performing arts 791.023
Careers in radio 791.023

Journals

Toolbox

How to use the Internet
The Intute Virtual Training Suite provides free Internet tutorials to help you learn how to get the best from the Web for your education and research. The tutorials are written and updated by a team of subject specialists based in universities and colleges across the UK. Click the list of tutorials and then chose the one that interests you, or have a look at the Internet Detective which will also help you to evaluate the reliability and usefulness of web pages.

Athens
Some of the Learning centre's electronic resources will require you to log in using the Athens validation service. (Especially if you use them outside College.) You will need an Athens username and password to do this. Obtain an "Athens Student Logon Request Form" from your Learning Centre; complete and return the form. You will receive notification of your account through your TMC student e mail.

Words used in assignments
The words used when questions or assignments are set can be confusing if you are not used to them. The 'Words used in questions and assignment titles' page explains what tutors and examiners are looking for and what you should write about.

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