English playtext collections on trial

The Uniarts Helsinki Library offers for trial use three electronic playtext collections through the Drama Online service:

Nick Hern Books Modern Plays contains more than 900 plays from the UK and Ireland. Includes novelties such as Shifters by Benedict Lombe. The collection also includes plays by Caryl Churchill and Conor McPherson, for example.

Global Plays Collection 1 contains more than 100 plays from over 25 different countries including India, Nigeria, Argentina, Japan and Ukraine. For example, 30 plays by Jon Fosse and plays by Griselda Gambaro and Duro Ladipo.

TCG Books Play Collection: American Drama offers more than 200 plays from TCG Books. There is a wide variety of contemporary American theatre. Plays by such playwrights as Dael Orlandersmith, Suzan-Lori Parks, Naomi Wallace and Anne Washburn. Featuring 18 Pulitzer Prize-winning plays.

The trial period ends on 30 November 2025.

Play collections are available through Drama Online. The library already has other collections in use in Drama Online, which include video recordings in addition to playtexts. You will be able to see the list of all Drama Online collections available at the Uniarts Helsinki here.

You can find the trial databases from the library’s database list under “Trial / New Databases”. Sign in remotely with your Uniarts credentials.

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Give feedback either via the library feedback form or by sending an email to: lib@uniarts.fi.

The library is taking new databases for trial use throughout the year. New databases can also be suggested to the library using the acquisition proposal form.

What does trial use of library database mean?

Trial use means that the library provides for Uniarts students and staff temporary access to a non-open-access database or electronic material. Feedback from users affects whether the database is acquired for use for the university.

If the decision is made to acquire the database, it will be in use from the beginning of the coming year. Database purchases are not made in the middle of the year.

The decision for the new databases for the following year will be made at the end of the previous year. The decisions are influenced by, among other things, the material appropriations received by the library from the University, the library’s collection policy, feedback and usage statistics received from trial uses.