Citation and Sharing

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Read on for more information about our open science commitments and practices, as well as how to access, reuse, and cite this work.

Open Research

Our project is built on the principles and values of open research:

• Open data: We embrace the FAIR data principles to promote the Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability of our data, and we reuse data from open sources wherever possible.
• Open file formats: We use portable, open-source, non-proprietary file formats like XML, JPG, and PDF/A for preservation-friendly file management, following the latest recommendations of the Library of Congress. Our full datasets are available for export in SQL, JSON, XML, and CSV formats, encouraging interoperation with datasets in a range of other formats.
• Open source software: Our website and database code are written in standard, open-source programming languages including PHP, Python, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The code base is available in full on our GitHub site and major release versions are automatically registered with unique DOIs through Zenodo:
  
  • Data v1.0
  • Database Code v1.0
  • Website v2.1
• Open access: Consistent with the NEH public access policy, we aim to publish project-related scholarly work in open-access venues whenever possible. A list of outputs and media coverage related to the first grant-funded phase of the project (2018-19) is maintained on the NEH public query site, and it will be joined by a running list of associated products for the current grant as they become available.

Citing the Database

We credit and link back to our sources and greatly appreciate your help tracking our project’s impact through citations. A suggested citation, formatted in MLA and Chicago style, can be found at the bottom of each event page and follows this template:

• Chicago: "London Stage Event: 10 August 1682 at Dorset Garden Theatre." London Stage Database. Accessed March 10, 2025. https://londonstagedatabase.uoregon.edu/event.php?id=1494.
• MLA: "London Stage Event: 10 August 1682 at Dorset Garden Theatre." London Stage Database, https://londonstagedatabase.uoregon.edu/event.php?id=1494.

Image Credits

The image collage that is displayed on the landing page and in the background of the search, results, and events pages was created by Dustin Olson, and is covered by a CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

Clockwise from top left:

• “Scene from School for Scandal being performed in Drury Lane Theatre, London,” 1778, © The Trustees of the British Museum, CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license
• William Blake, “Beggar’s Opera, Act III,” c.1790, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, Public Domain
• Thomas Rowlandson, “An Audience Watching a Play at Drury Lane Theatre,” c.1785, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, Public Domain
• Playbill from Burney Collection, “‘Theatrical Register.’ A collection of playbills of London theatres, chiefly of Drury Lane, Covent Garden and the Haymarket,” 1774-1777, British Library, Public Domain
• John Lodge, “Mr. Garrick delivering his Ode at Drury Lane Theatre on dedicating a building & erecting a statue to Shakespeare,” Folger Shakespeare Library, CC-BY-SA 4.0 license
• “Riot at Covent Garden Theatre, in 1763, in consequence of the Managers refusing to admit half-price in the Opera of Artaxerxes,” 1763, © The Trustees of the British Museum, CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 License
• Peter Lely, “Aphra Behn,” 1670, Yale Center for British Art, Public Domain
• John Gay, The beggar's opera. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincolns-Inn Fields,1729, British Library, Public Domain
• Edward Fisher, “Miss Farren in the Character of Hermione,” 1781, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, Public Domain
• “Scene One of The Necromancer or Harlequin Dr Faustus which opened at Lincoln's Inn Fields 20 December 1723,” 1724, © The Trustees of the British Museum, CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license
• Thomas Bewick, “Border for theatre-ticket; concert for the benefit of Mr Evans, at the Theatre Royal in Haymarket, London, on 11 April 1777,” 1777, © The Trustees of the British Museum, CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license