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Journal Articles

Use the following databases and encyclopedias to find journal articles and other research materials. Sign-in required from off-campus.

Best bets for peer-reviewed 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
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.

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Academic Search Complete
Access the full text for more than 4,000 scholarly publications covering many 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.

Jazz Music Library
Jazz Music Library provides a comprehensive streaming audio collection of jazz music, featuring thousands of jazz performers from legendary record labels. The database provides tracks from the early ‘20s to the present, covering all major jazz genres including swing, vocal jazz, bebop, blues, big band music, contemporary jazz, and more. It currently provides streaming access to more than 130,000 tracks, with new recordings added monthly. Access available to Kent and Stark campuses only.
Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels. It also includes music recorded around the African continent by Dr. Hugh Tracey for the International Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes University as well as material collected by recordists on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE), sponsored by the American Institute for Indian Studies.

Dissertations

Best bets

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.

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Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology
Database of citations for completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in musicology, music theory, ethnomusicology, and related disciplines.
WorldCat Dissertations and Theses
Provides access to the dissertations and theses available in OCLC member libraries. Many of these are available electronically, at no charge, directly from the publishing institution.

Digital Media

Audio

Naxos Music Library
Streaming music collection. Includes classical music, historical recordings, Jazz, world music, and folk music.

Liner notes are available for some recordings.

Video

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.

Encyclopedias

Best bets

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.).

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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.

Databases

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
Lists death dates for musicians as reported in current media. Updated daily.

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.

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