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Performing Arts, Drama and Dance: Journals

For the Performing Arts and Production group of courses, as listed in the title of the guide.

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Library Discovery

Journals and magazines

What are journals?

Journals are academic magazines. Most of our journals are available online. A small number of titles, mainly more professionally focused magazines, are available in print.

Journals are

  • published daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly - therefore the material is up to date
  • generally the first place that scholarly research is published
  • often 'peer reviewed', this means that articles have been critically reviewed by experts prior to being published.

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Bibliographic databases

Which bibliographic database?

Discovery can be used to search for journal articles when there is a specific article you want to find.  It can also be used for keyword searching; that is when you want articles on a particular subject, but need to find out what is available by searching using the words and phrases that describe the information you want, so you can choose which to use.

Depending on your Discovery results you might choose to search a bibliographic database directly; to narrow your search down to a broad subject area, to use different search functions, or to have more control over your search design. 

The right hand column contains a list of bibliographic databases that cover broad subject areas, as well as some from individual publishers.  Read the descriptions to decide on an appropriate database for your search and link through to them to search.

This isn't a full list of databases available. For more information contact your subject librarian. 

Conference papers

What about conference proceedings?

This is a collection of research papers delivered at a conference or symposium. Proceedings are available both from UoG search tools such as Library Discovery, SCOPUS, as well from services like GoogleScholar and SemanticScholar.  

Using the Inter-Library Loan service

Article not in library?

Use the Inter-Library Loan (ILL) service to obtain journal articles not held by the university. Primarily for final year undergrad students, postgrads, researchers or academics. Staff and students have an initial allocation of free requests. More information is available in the Guide to Inter-Library Loans

Searching for journal articles

  • ConnectedPapers
    Creates a visual map of published research, shows links between papers containing references. 5 free maps per month.
  • Elicit
    A free AI literature search tool using similar natural language searching  Displays and summarises relevant papers. See FAQ.
  • GoogleScholar
    Searches scholarly materials. Use Settings to select the Library Links to access content to which the UoG Library subscribes.
  • ResearchGate
    Hosts journal articles and chapters uploaded by authors for OpenAccess.  Primarily full-text, some results to be requested from the authors for the full-text.
  • SemanticScholar
    Searches and retrieves scholarly publications based on the importance and relevance of cited papers using machine learning techniques.