LibGuides: Music Databases: Databases

Finding Journal Articles

Music Index Online
Search for articles on class and popular music. Includes research articles, magazine articles, and reviews of recordings and performances.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (1967-Present only)
Includes references (most with abstracts) to scholarly writings, including books, articles, and dissertations from 1969 to the present in English and most European languages. Updated monthly.

Academic Search Complete
Access the full text for more than 4,000 scholarly publications covering diverse academic areas of study.
Areas of study include social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
ERIC (EBSCO)
Search for articles and special reports on topics related to education. Reports from government agencies (both state and federal) as well as professional organizations are included.
This resource is good for finding historical information on educational topics.
Humanities International Complete
Find article citations from over 1,900 publications containing articles, essays, reviews, poems, fiction, photographs, paintings, and illustrations. Includes full text for hundreds of journals, books, and other publications.
JSTOR
Electronic archive of scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and basic sciences from the earliest issues to within a few years of current publication.
The collections include: Arts & Sciences I-VIII, Business Collection I-III, Ecology & Botany, General Science, and Language and Literature.
RISM Musical Manuscripts after 1600
Browse an annotated index and guide to music manuscripts produced after 1600.
Web of Science Core Collection
Provides access to three multidisciplinary databases covering selected journal literature and conference proceedings in the areas of the arts and humanities, sciences, and social sciences.

Dissertations & Theses Global (ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global)
Search millions of citations to dissertations and theses from around the world. Includes downloadable full text for most dissertations added since 1997 and some retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works. Coverage: 1861 to present.
Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center (OhioLINK ETD Center)
Online theses and dissertations from Ohio graduate students. Includes links to full-text.

Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology
Search for citations to dissertations in musicology, musical theory, musicology, music education, and other music related disciplines. The full-text of the dissertations are not included.
WorldCat Dissertations and Theses
Access dissertations and theses available in OCLC member libraries. Many of these are available electronically, at no charge, directly from the publishing institution.

Naxos Music Library
Streaming music collection. Includes classical music, historical recordings, Jazz, world music, and folk music.
Liner notes are available for some recordings.

Digital Theatre+
View streaming video of current British theatre productions. Also contains behind-the-scenes documentaries and learning resources, including introductions, plot summaries, character biographies, relationship maps, language analysis, scene studies, performance backgrounds, and historical contexts.
Kanopy Streaming
View free films, videos, and documentaries with this by-request streaming video service for educational institutions. The Kanopy platform may not be supported on some devices, such as Chromebooks and mobile devices.
You must download the Kanopy App in order to stream videos on a mobile device.

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
Locate the full text of encyclopedia entries on music from around the world.
Oxford Music Online
Search the full-text of the the Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.), Grove Music Online, the Oxford Companion to Music (2002 revision) and the Oxford Dictionary of Music (2nd ed. rev.).

IPA Source
This resource is designed to assist educators and singers with language understanding and pronunciation.You can search by composer/author name or title.
Oxford Handbooks Online: Music
Reference e-books on the current scholarship of music research, including the areas of historical musicology, ethnomusicology, theory, pedagogy, dance, and technology.

Directory of Music Faculties
Database of music faculty in colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.
Daniels' Orchestral Music Online
Search for information on orchestral music. You can search by composer, title of piece, or instrument. The musical scores are not provided.
Gaylord Music Library Musician Necrology
An alphabetical list of musicians and composers who have died since the mid-1980s, giving full name, death date, and source of information.
IPA Source
This resource is designed to assist educators and singers with language understanding and pronunciation.You can search by composer/author name or title.

America's News
Complete electronic editions of more than 1,500 U.S. news sources and news video clips, covering local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded.
Newspaper Source
Read selected full text for over 180 regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, newspaper columns, and other sources. Includes indexing and abstracts for national newspapers and full text television & radio news transcripts from CBS News, FOX News, NPR, and more.
New York Times
Access news, investigations, opinion, photos, and video by the journalists of The New York Times.
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New York Times - Historical
Explore New York Times articles published from 1851 up to two years ago. Includes the complete paper with full-page and article images in PDF format.