Recommended Databases
Most databases can be searched using author, title or subject in either basic or advanced search formats. The results of a search will include either a citation, a citation and abstract, or a citation, abstract and full text of the article depending on the database searched.
Listed below are databases pertaining to Music that are available via your campus library. You can access these, and other databases, from the Databases by name page.
Additional information about specific databases is available at each database site.
- Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
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Offers the Grove Music series as well as The Oxford Companion to Music and its more than 8,000 articles on composers, performers, conductors, instruments and notation, forms and genres. Includes other major music reference works. | Watch Video Tutorial
**Access is limited to 3 users at a time - RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new windowIndexes and abstracts music literature from 1969 to the present and covers all aspects of music, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, dance, and music therapy.
- ERIC (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
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Includes document citations, journal article citations from hundreds of professional journals, and ERIC digest full-text records. Also includes full-text from nearly 500 journals and full-text of most of the ERIC documents from 1996 to the present. - Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new windowA multi-disciplinary, full text database. Contains full text for thousands of popular and scholarly publications.
- Gale Academic OneFile Select This link opens in a new windowIndexes full text articles from thousands of journal titles in academic disciplines including the arts and humanities.
