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Dance: Articles/Databases
Help with Searching
- Focus Your TopicThis video shows different ways of focusing a topic for a research paper.
- Searching databases for dance articlesPowerPoint tutorial: click the speaker icon in the upper right of each slide for audio.
Dance databases
- Music and Dance Online This link opens in a new windowStreaming dance videos in genres from alternative to zydeco.
- SPORTDiscus with Full Text This link opens in a new windowArticles on dance, choreography, movement, dance medicine & psychology, nutrition, biomechanics, exercise and physical education, etc.
- Art & Architecture Source This link opens in a new windowarticles about dance, dancers, choreography, and costumes from all parts of the world.
- Dance journalslisted by title
General Databases
Dance & Culture databases
- Biography Index Past and Present This link opens in a new windowarticles about people: look up dancer's or choreographer's last name
- Humanities Source Ultimate This link opens in a new windowarticles about dance: magazines, scholarly journals, and more
- SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new windowjournal articles on social & cultural aspects of dance
- ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials This link opens in a new windowfor articles on religious dance
- RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new windowCovers leading dance journals--use the Get it @ GVSU button to get the articles.
Education articles
Search tips for finding articles
- use "quotation marks" around phrases
- truncate - shorten a word to its trunk or root to get alternate endings - with an asterisk * (shift 8), e.g., truncat* finds truncate, truncated, truncation
- apply Boolean connector AND to combine unlike ideas, e.g., dance AND promotion
- apply Boolean connector OR to connect synonyms, e.g., advertisements OR campaigns
Put it all together:
- "hip hop dance" in one box
- AND (promot* OR advertis* OR campaigns) in the next box
- use parentheses in single-box searching - when you don't have another set of boxes, e.g.,:
- "hip hop dance" AND (promot* OR advertis* OR campaigns)
Use the left or right menus to narrow your results, e.g., by language, date, subject, etc.
Databases have a citation (information about an article such as the title, author, name of the journal or magazine, volume and issue (which correspond to the date), date, and pages) and sometimes they will also contain an abstract, or summary, of the article.
Databases also often cite multiple types of resources - books, essays or chapters, government documents, etc.
Some databases will also have the complete item (called the full text): you should see a link to an HTML or PDF document. Or click on - this will check the other library databases for the full text of the article.
- Last Updated: Apr 19, 2024 8:06 AM
- URL: https://libguides.gvsu.edu/dance