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Locating articles

The library does not currently subscribe to a database specific to dance, but it does provide access to various databases that include materials related to the field. In addition, these are cross-disciplinary databases that include citations to articles and reviews, many of which are full text.

Academic Search Complete
Multi-disciplinary. Includes full text
America: History & Life with Full Text
Covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. Includes full text.
American Decades
Cross-disciplinary. Information on periods of contemporary American social history from 1900-1999.
Daily Life Through History
Cross-disciplinary resource that supports history, social studies, English, and language students; gives life to history and context to current events.
JSTOR
Cross-disciplinary database. Includes full-text articles from over 2,000 publications.
ProQuest Central
Citations, abstracts, and full-text articles and graphics from more than 10,000 magazines, journals and newspapers.

Useful books

Books at the COC Library are shelved by Library of Congress Classification. In this system, books on dance are mostly found in the call number range GV1580 - GV1799. The library's eBook collections contain additional titles. Please find a selection of print and ebook titles below. To find more books, please visit the library website and locate items through OneSearch.

Aerial Dance
Call Number: Valencia Stacks GV1783 .D38 2018
Butoh Dance Training
Call Number: eBook
Dance Production
Call Number: Valencia Stacks GV1782 .H66 2016
Dance Science
Call Number: Valencia Stacks RC1220.D35 G76 2015
Dancing
Call Number: Canyon Country Stacks GV1594 .J66 1998
Moving History/Dancing Cultures
Call Number: Valencia Stacks GV1601 .M86 2001
Also available as an eBook.
Moving Toward Life
Call Number: eBook
The Routledge Dance Studies Reader
Call Number: eBook
Soul and Spirit in Dance Movement Psychotherapy
Call Number: eBook
Why We Dance
Call Number: eBook

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Academic Video Online
Provides access to almost 70,000 video titles spanning a wide range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.
College Complete eBook Collection
Provides access to more than 46,000 eBooks from leading academic publishers.

American College Dance Association
An association of students, teachers, artists, and scholars who bring passion in dance to their colleges and to each other.
National Dance Council of America
A united inter-association agency to represent the interests of those in the dance profession and other dance-related fields.
Cool 4 Ed
The three State of California Higher Education Systems are working together to provide you easy access to quality FREE and OPEN eTextbooks that everyone and anyone can use for teaching and learning.
Purdue OWL
The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University provides writing resources and instructional material, including citation style guide examples for MLA, APA, and Chicago.

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