Searching Journals and Periodicals
Below you will find links to databases specifially for journals, periodicals, and articles. You will find more information and a focus on JSTOR, RIPM, Music Index, and Music Periodicals Database using the drop down menu on the 'Journals, Periodicals, and Articles' tab at the top of the page.
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Music Indexes
- Music IndexContains indexing and abstracts of articles about music and citations for book reviews, obituaries, and news articles. Includes articles from over 660 journals; coverage dating back to 1964.
- Music Periodicals DatabaseProvides indexing, abstracts, and full-text articles from hundreds of international music periodicals and journals. Some complete journal runs are included, with indexing back to 1874. Coverage includes music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theater, theory, popular music, classical music, opera, music theory, music business, and more.
- RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
A bibliography of writings about music; includes hundreds of thousands of bibliographic records featuring citations, abstracts, and indexing. It covers publications from 1800-2021 and in all document types from around the world on traditional music, popular music, jazz, classical music, and more. Includes citations for all document types including books, conference proceedings, journal articles, dissertations, internet resources, and audio and visual recordings.
- RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music PeriodicalsAn international annotated bibliography of writings on musical history and culture published in 17 countries between 1766-1962. Indexes the content of complete runs of journals and offers access to thousands of English-language translations of foreign documents. Some direct access to the full-text of the article cited.
Other Indexes & Databases
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowMulti-disciplinary full-text database with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. Indexes and abstracts more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, and conference proceedings.
- Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL)Lists monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays, and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world.
- Arts and Humanities Citation IndexThe Arts & Humanities Citation Index in Web of Science indexes 87 major American and European art periodicals such as Apollo, ARTnews, Art Bulletin, museum journals, etc.
- Center for Research Libraries Catalog (CRL)Over 600,000 titles held at CRL are searchable through the catalog, including collections of newspapers, microform, journals, and dissertations. Coverage for all formats is international. Holdings are often unique and hard to find elsewhere.
- ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) [EBSCOhost]Consists of two files: the Resources in Education (RIE) file of ERIC document citations and the Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE) file of journal article citations from over 1,000 journals. Both files provide abstracts. In addition, ERIC now contains over 2,200 ERIC Digest records that feature the full-text of the original document. Also provides coverage of conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.
- Historical AbstractsThe premier database for researching the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present. Please note: Subscription limited to six simultaneous users.
- JSTORSearchable full-text journal backfile collection. Individual titles are listed in the E-Journals A-Z.
- MLA International Bibliography with Full TextOffers access to the Modern Language Association's essential database, as well as a deep full-text collection that includes backfiles to the first issue for dozens of full-text journals and free online teaching tools. This database includes all content from the MLA International Bibliography, which has over 3 million citations from the late 19th century to the present, and more than 6,000 actively indexed journals and book series.
- Project MuseCovers literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, etc. Contains current full text scholarly journals which cover these fields and a significant collection of recent scholarly books.
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How to Get Full-Text
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Oxford Bibliographies in Music
In Oxford Bibliographies in Music, each article, written and reviewed by top scholars in the field, is rich with citations and annotations, expert recommendations, and narrative pathways to the most important works for virtually all areas of music.
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Open-Access Music Journals
Open-access journals are digital, online journals that are free to access and often free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
- Open-Access Music JournalsA searchable database of open-access music journals, maintained by Matthew Franke.
- Open Access Research GuideLearn more about open access in education and research at Adrian Ho's Open Access research guide.