Drama Online is a great resource for researching plays and theatrical works. The database provides a growing collection of historical and contemporary plays as well as the audio editions of various works. It includes reference tools for students and faculty members.
This searches the following databases simultaneously: Art & Architecture Complete, Art Index Retrospective, Communication & Mass Media Complete, Humanities Full Text and RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text
This streaming video service includes documentaries, independent and foreign films, classics, and instructional films. It supports keyword searching as well as browsing by categories like Arts, Business, Education, Foreign Films, Global Studies & Languages, Health, Media & Communications, Movies and TV, Science, and Social Studies.
Note on Kanopy Access
If a required film for a course is unavailable in Kanopy, please reach out to your course instructor to request access. While the McDermott library will make reasonable efforts to acquire materials required for coursework, the library may not honor all requests due to budgetary reasons. Many of the films may also be available on course reserves as a physical DVD.
The library has a large selection of physical DVDs. If you have questions on obtaining a film, please feel free to contact one of the reference librarians who can assist. Films that we do not have can also often be requested through Interlibrary Loan.
In addition, Students, Faculty, and Staff also have access to streaming films on a wide variety of topics from PBS, Film Platform, and Docuseek. We encourage viewing films on these platforms.
Faculty members may request Kanopy titles for classroom use by email libresv@utdallas.edu or Davin.Pate@utdallas.edu. Physical copies of DVD can be put on Media Course Reserve. The library may request faculty to place the physical copy of a film on course reserves if the class is taught in an in-person setting.
Naxos offers thousands of tracks of jazz, film music, world music, and classic and contemporary rock, with customizable playlists supported. Recordings are searchable by genre, label, instrument, composer, or performer.
Naxos Spoken Word Library consists of hundreds of audiobooks, with subjects ranging from literary classics, biographies, and histories to philosophy, religion, and children's stories.
This is a performing arts streaming video library with hundreds of videos of operas, ballets, documentaries, classical music performances, and musical tours of historic places.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) is a digitization and publishing program focusing on primary source collections of the nineteenth century. Consisting of books, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, maps, photographs, and statistics, the collections may be searched individually or collectively.
This comprehensive archive begins with the first issue in March 1923 through December 2000. Published Weekly. Time Magazine captured relevant news, political discussions, sports, cultural events, and entertainment from within the United States and around the world.