Major Indexes and Databases

Play Index

Over 30,000 plays written from Antiquity to the present and published from 1949 to the present.  Play Index covers a wide range of plays written in or translated into English.
Search for plays by title; author; subject; style; genre; cast type; and more. 
All Play master records contain a link to the results of an Internet metasearch of specially selected Web sites to link to full text, criticism, and other useful information.

Arts and Humanities Search

Search by cited author, cited work, or topic, 1980 to current.

MLA Bibliography (Firstsearch)

Index for literary criticism, linguistics, and folklore from 1926-present.

Academic OneFile

Interdisciplinary article index covering all subjects in over 10,000 academic-related journals and magazines (the majority with full-text).  Includes all the content of Expanded Academic Index ASAP.  Coverage: 1980 - present. Also includes New York Times full-text content back to 1995.

Periodicals Index Online

A database of millions of article citations published in the arts, humanities and social sciences, across more than 300 years.

Ingenta

Ingenta is an interdisciplinary database with indexing and tables of contents for approximately 25,000 journals and magazines, mainly 1990-current.