The following are indexes to collections, anthologies and periodicals. If you find that the play you are looking for does appear in a collection, anthology or periodical, you must then look up the title of that source in the UB Libraries Catalog to see whether any of the UB libraries own it, e.g., after using one of the indexes below to discover that Cheryl Royce's play My Son Susie appears in the anthology Women Playwrights: the Best Plays of 1993 , type in the title, women playwrights the best plays of 1993 , in the UB Libraries Catalog and choose the title search option (click the button adjacent to "Title"). 

​Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections: An Author and Title Index to Plays Appearing in Collections Published between 1900 and 1985. 
LOCKWOOD Reference Z 5781 .O8 1988. Arranged alphabetically by author and then by title. Each entry includes title, date, variant titles, and an abbreviation which refers to the collections index in the back of the book which in turn provides full bibliographic information.

Drama Scholar's Index to Plays and Filmscripts 
LOCKWOOD Reference Z 5781 .S17. 3 vols. Indexes plays in anthologies, periodicals and publishers' series through 1977. Includes anthologies published in the 18th and 19th centuries as well as foreign periodicals. Covers a wide range of material including radio, television and film scripts. Arranged alphabetically by author, cross-referenced by title.

Index to Plays in Periodicals 
LOCKWOOD Reference PN 1721 .K38 1979/1990. 2 vols. Indexes over 200 periodicals through 1987. Arranged by author.

Afro-American Poetry and Drama, 1760-1975: A Guide to Information Sources 
LOCKWOOD Reference PS153 .N59 A373 1979

Index to Twentieth-Century Spanish Plays: In Collections, Anthologies, and Periodicals 
LOCKWOOD Reference PQ6115 .H17 2000

Latin American Play Index 
LOCKWOOD Book Collection Z1609.D7 H63 1983