Research Guides: Theatre Studies: Finding Books

Finding Books

The Library's Catalog
Search for books, journals and other print materials, videos, sound recordings, e-books, e-journals, articles, available from NYU Libraries and partner libraries.
WorldCat - FirstSearch (OCLC)
Search for books and more in libraries in the U.S. and around the world. Indicates when NYU Libraries holds a copy of a book and shows you nearby libraries with holdings.
EZBorrow
EZBorrow is a search tool that you can use to request books not currently available at NYU Libraries. It searches the catalogs of over 50 nearby academic libraries. EZBorrow books arrive within 3-5 days.
Interlibrary Loan
Allows you to request books, book chapters, articles, and other items not available at NYU from libraries across the U.S. and around the world.

Online Book Collections

Ebook Central

Ebook Central is NYU's preferred ebook provider. Users can search, read, highlight, and annotate full-text books in many subject areas, including the social sciences and humanities.

We are working with the vendor to resolve chapter download issues for certain ebooks. If you encounter an error when attempting to open a downloaded book chapter, please select "Read Online" and then "Switch to PDF" to perform the chapter download from within the PDF as a workaround.
Taylor & Francis eBooks
Taylor & Francis eBooks is a portal for full-text ebooks in a variety of subjects across the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Users can download .PDF versions of some books on this platform, and view other books via the FileOpen online viewer.
Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core provides access to all of the Cambridge University Press content, including books and journals, that NYU accesses.
Bloomsbury Collections
Bloomsbury Collections delivers online access to scholarly books from Bloomsbury's Academic division. While the titles generally span the humanities and social sciences, the bulk of them are categorized as works of sociology. Bloomsbury Collections includes research publications from Bloomsbury, T&T Clark, The Arden Shakespeare, and Hart Publishing, alongside scholarship from historic imprints Continuum, Berg, and Bristol Classical Press.
Drama Online
Drama Online contains full texts and full-length filmed performances of plays ranging from Aeschylus to the present day, with supplementary material including first night program texts, critical analyses, and images from the Victoria and Albert Museum's archive of production photos. Includes the Core Collection, Critical Studies and Performance Practice, Nick Hern Books Modern Plays, National Theatre Collection, RSC Live Collection, and Aurora Metro Books, among others.
Project Muse
Provides full-text access to high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from scholarly publishers.
Intellect Discover
The Intellect Discover platform provides access to electronic journals and books published by Intellect. Intellect is an independent academic publisher focused on teaching and research in the arts, media and creative industries. Major subject areas of focus include: visual arts, performing arts, film and media studies, dance, music, and popular culture.

Manhattan Research Library Initiative (MaRLI)

The Manhattan Research Library Initiative (MaRLI) enables NYU and Columbia doctoral students, full-time faculty and librarians, and approved New York Public Library cardholders to borrow materials from all three institutions.

MaRLI