Research Guides: Theatre & Performance Studies Research Guide: Journals & Magazines

Evaluating Periodicals

UM Libraries' User Education Services division has created several Research & Library Skills Guides for teaching libary and information literacy. The three linked below are designed to help you evaluate periodical literature.

Ulrich's Periodicals Database

Ulrich's Periodicals Database
Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory™ is a bibliographic database providing detailed, comprehensive, and authoritative information on serials published throughout the world. It covers all subjects, and includes publications that are published regularly or irregularly and are circulated free of charge or by paid subscription.

Ulrich's is a unique and helpful tool for finding information ABOUT periodicals.

Find periodicals about a particular subject
Locate publisher information
Find out how long a journal ran
Discover if it ever changed names
Find which databases index a journal

About Journals & Magazines in MSPAL

This page lists all of the Current Theatre and Performing Arts Periodicals found in MSPAL.

Click on a journal title to view the page for each journal, this will list the available formats (in print, and/or online, etc.).

Some titles are partially available online, some are ONLY available online, and some are only available in PRINT.

Tip: To view available PRINT issues, follow the "Check availability at..." link on the Find It page.

Useful Journals & Magazines according to your Librarian.

More coming soon...

Current Periodicals

All current print issues are located in the Current Periodicals Section at the very front of the first floor (past the Reference Section).

They are shelved ALPHABETICALLY by journal title.

--> Back issues are bound, given a Call Number and placed in the Stacks upstairs.