Music Research Guide

Discipline-Specific

Music Index
Citations from 640+ international music periodicals. Includes classical and popular music topics, book reviews, record reviews, first performances, and obituaries.
Music Periodicals Database
Includes abstracts (and full text of many) articles from 1874 to current, covering from the scholarly to the popular of music periodicals. Coverage is international and includes a broad spectrum of topics including music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theatre, theory, popular music forms and composition on a diverse array of musical genres.
Performing Arts Periodicals Database
Database of citations, abstracts, and full text for articles in both scholarly and popular performing-arts periodicals. Covers dance, theater, film, mime, opera, puppetry, radio, television, video, storytelling, and performance art.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
Provides citations for content from the late 18th century to the present. Coverage is international and multilingual. Offers broad and detailed coverage of music literature, from hip hop to Händel, ethnomusicology to music therapy, elementary music education to advanced music theory.
RIPM : Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals
International, highly annotated database with detailed content analysis of writings on musical history and culture between 1800 and 1950

Multidisciplinary

Web of Science
Multidisciplinary database of scholarly articles. Searches citation indexes in Arts and Humanities, Social Science, and Science. Includes "cited by" feature and allows sorting by citation count.
Google Scholar
Database covering many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, and online repositories. Sign into your library account to see items to which we subscribe.
JSTOR
This database includes the full text of journals starting with their very first issue and eBooks and eChapters. Note, current issues are not available in JSTOR. Consult the journals list for information on years of coverage. For wider coverage of a topic, consult the database best suited to your discipline.
Project MUSE
Full text articles of 400+ peer-reviewed journals from Johns Hopkins University Press.

Journalism and Popular Magazines

Rock's Backpages
Primary-source material for the study of popular music, featuring full text of 20,000+ articles from nearly 50 years of American and British popular-music journalism, spanning popular, niche, and industry publications. Includes audio collection of interviews with popular music personalities

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