Use these music-specific databases to identify articles pertinent to your research. The list is in order of importance for musicology:
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature an international, abstracted bibliography of scholarly writings on music and related disciplines in music periodicals and other sources such as books of essays, with hundreds of thousands of entries; coverage: 1967-present, with frequent updates; it formerly focused mainly on historical musicology, but it now includes fields such as jazz and music education; links to full text of journals through EBSCOhost.
RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals 1800-1950. Published under the auspices of the International Musicological Society, International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres, UNESCO’s International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies; links to full text of journals through EBSCOhost.
Music Index
indexes hundreds of music periodicals from various countries; coverage: 1970-present, with frequent updates; includes diverse fields of music; links to full text of journals through EBSCOhost.
RIPM Jazz Periodicals
Full text of many historically significant American jazz journals and magazines
Multi-disciplinary sources:
JStor
Full text of journal articles from a large number of disciplines; provides backfiles of articles from years past for many important journals in music. CAUTION: Since its specialty is backfiles, it may not provide current issues, so do not limit yourself to it when searching for articles.
Very important:
WorldCat
A super online catalog of more than 35 million entries describing items owned by libraries around the world, with information on which libraries own the items; includes entries for musical scores and sound recordings; does not include articles; use this resource to initiate inter-library loan requests for books and scores we do not have.
Please note: This is a FirstSearch database; for anyone familiar with OCLC, this IS the OCLC Online Union Catalog. This is not a full-text database.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (electronic version of earlier print resource Dissertation Abstracts) bibliographic citations for doctoral dissertations and master's theses in all fields completed at numerous accredited colleges and universities worldwide, with emphasis on U.S. schools; abstracts included from 1980 forward; now includes full text of over one million dissertations.
Academic Search Complete
Database providing full-text journal coverage for thousands of journals in diverse academic disciplines, including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies; links to full text of journals through EbscoHost.
