InfoGuides: MUSI 490: Musical Communication in Context: FInd Articles and Journals

Music Databases (Text)

SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Offers a broad coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. Provides access to journals, books, dissertations, reports, conference proceedings, and author profiles. Subjects include abortion, criminology and criminal justice, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, political sociology, religion, social work, sociological research and theory.
Sage Journals Online This link opens in a new window
Provides online access (searching and browsing) to over 800 journals published by Sage in fields of Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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Provides full-text, peer-reviewed journals, as well as indexing and abstracts for monographs, reports, and conference proceedings. Features content going back as far as 1887.
Education Database This link opens in a new window
Gives users access to over 900 educational publications, including more than 600 of the titles in full text from 1988 to present. Coverage spans the literature on primary, secondary and higher education as well as special education, home schooling, and adult education.
ERIC This link opens in a new window
References to thousands of educational topics. Indexes journal articles, books, theses, curricula, conference papers, standards, guidelines and more. ERIC documents (non-journal literature) are available full-text, 1993 to the present.
APA PsycInfo (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. Includes more than 3.7 million records.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is a collection of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences digitized in most cases back to the first date of issue. Includes selected books, primary sources and other materials for academic work.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
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Provides digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. Offers full-text versions of scholarly journals and books from many of the world's university presses and scholarly societies.
Music Index This link opens in a new window
Citations from hundreds of international music periodicals from 1970 to present, covering every aspect of classical and popular music; includes book and record reviews.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive bibliography on writings about music featuring citations, abstracts and indexes. It covers nearly one and a half million publications from around the world on traditional music, popular music, jazz, classical music and related subjects. Coverage begins in the early 19th century and extends to the present.

Direcroty of Open Access Journal
is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone.
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Music Periodicals Database This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing and abstracts for several hundred international music periodicals and full text for the indexed journals. The database includes recent ten years of publication. Some complete journal runs are included, with indexing back to 1874. Covers the spectrum of subjects and all aspects of music, including music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theater, theory, popular music forms and composition. Previously called International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP).
Arts & Humanities Citation Index This link opens in a new window
Indexes more than 1,700 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals and selected items from over 250 scientific and social sciences journals from 1975 to the present. Part of Web of Science. Use the dropdown editor labeled "Editions" to select Arts & Humanities Citation Index in the search box.
WorldCat This link opens in a new window
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Provides records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries, such as books, music, videos, microform, digital content, and medieval manuscripts.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text This link opens in a new window
Provides a comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day and offering full text for graduate works added since 1997, along with selected full text for works written prior to 1997. Contains new international dissertations and theses both in citations and in full text.
Dissertations & Theses @ George Mason University This link opens in a new window
Access full text of dissertations and theses in pdf format, as well as online 24 page preview. Content submitted by George Mason University, and published in Dissertation Abstracts.