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Journals for Dance Scholarship

Dance
Call Number: Knight Library GV1580 .D2317
Publication Date: 1989-
Dance, Movement & Spiritualities
Call Number: online
Publication Date: Online access from 2015-2018
Dance Research (online)
Call Number: online + print Knight Library GV1580 .D29
Publication Date: 1983-
Online access covers from 1983 to 4 years ago. Print volumes cover v.1(1983)-v.25(2007).
Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices "This journal focuses on the relationship between dance and somatic practices, and the influence of this body of practice on the wider performing arts. The journal will be aimed at scholars and artists, providing a space for practitioners and theorists to debate the work, to consider the impact and influence of the work on performance, the interventions that somatic practices can have on other disciplines and the implications for research and teaching."--Publisher's web site.
Call Number: online
Publication Date: Online access from 2013-present
Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (Online)
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 1981-
UCLA Journal of Dance Ethnology
Call Number: Knight Library GV1580 .A83a
Publication Date: 1984-
UO has v.8(1984)-v.19(1995)

Databases for finding dance scholarship

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Multi-disciplinary database providing indexing, abstracts, and selected full text for peer reviewed/scholarly articles, magazines, trade publications, and newspapers in all fields.
Arts & Humanities citation index (A&HCI) This link opens in a new window
Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the arts and humanities, covering 1975-present. Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the arts and humanities, covering 1975-present.
Dance catalog This link opens in a new window
Catalog of the New York Public Library's Dance Research Collection, including archival and digital collections related to dance.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Online archive of peer reviewed/scholarly journals in all disciplines.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (1967-present) This link opens in a new window
Includes articles, books, dissertations, and other scholarship related to dance in relation to music; particularly useful for ballet scholarship and folk/traditional dance through an ethnomusiological lens.
SPORTDiscus This link opens in a new window
Includes dance content related to physical training, dance medicine, dance in physical education, and kinesiology.

Databases for finding dance dissertations

Dissertations & Theses @ University of Oregon This link opens in a new window
Database of dissertations completed at the University of Oregon. Dissertations completed after 1996 are available in full text to current UO faculty, staff and students and on-campus users.
Scholars' Bank. Graduate Theses and Dissertations This link opens in a new window
Includes full text pdfs of Dance masters' theses from UO graduates.

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