STEP
1
Search one or more of the following databases
IIMP
JSTOR
Music Index
RILM
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
EBSCOhost
ERIC
Find article citations or full-text articles. Article citations give
you information such as author, title of the article, and the journal
(magazine) name to help find the full-text article.
All these databases are accessible from campus. If you want to access
the materials from off-campus
please read these instructions.
Music Databases
International
Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP)
IIMP Full Text is a music journal resource with more than half
a million indexed articles, plus detailed abstracts and full text from
1874 to the present, covering the scholarly to the popular. It provides
indexing and abstracts for more than 420 international music periodicals,
plus full text for 83 journals.
Subjects Covered
IIMP Full Text covers a comprehensive range of subject areas
in both scholarly and popular music journals ranging from International
Journal of Music Education, Ethnomusicology, Jazz Education Journal
and Musical Times to Rock and Rap Confidential and Rolling Stone. Articles
examine the full spectrum of subjects and all aspects of music, including
music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theatre, theory,
popular music forms and composition. You can find articles on a diverse
array of musical genres, from the liturgical chants of medieval monks
to the eclectic sounds of contemporary alternative rock musicians.
Search Tips:
Write down, email, or print all the information listed in the
citation(s) (journal title, volume, number, year, pages, etc.)
so that you can find the article in the library.
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View an example of a search in IIMP.
JSTOR
JSTOR provides
image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly
journals in a variety of subject areas.
Music
Index
Music Index is a database that indexes more than 725
international music periodicals. Topics concerned with every aspect
of the classical and popular world of music are thoroughly categorized
and organized according to the framework of an internal subject
list which includes both Subject and Geographic headings. Covering
all styles and genres of music, The Music Index duly cites
book reviews, obituaries, new periodicals, and news and articles about
music, musicians, and the music industry.
This database contains citations for articles from 1978 to the present.
If you want to research articles from earlier years, use the
print edition of Music Index.
Search Tips:
For most searching, use the "basic" search mode. For more specific searching, utilize the "advanced" search mode.
If you are unsure of the spelling of a composer's name, choose "advanced" search mode and select "sounds like" under
"word form options" (e.g. - "Ligety" will work for the proper spelling "Ligeti").
Write down, email, or print all the information listed in the
citation(s) (journal title, volume, number, year, pages, etc.)
so that you can find the article in the library. |
RILM
(Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale)
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature contains records in over
200 languages; entries include original-language titles, title translations
in English, full bibliographic information, and abstracts in English,
as well as author, journal, and in-depth subject indexes. RILM currently
contains nearly 300,000 entries. Approximately 20,000 new entries
are added annually. RILM offers a broad international coverage base
and it includes music related works from articles, books, bibliographies,
dissertations, film & video to concert reviews and recording notes
- provided the items are of scholarly interest. Subject areas include:
historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, librarianship,
performance practice and notation, theory and analysis, pedagogy,
liturgy, dance, criticism, music therapy, and interdisciplinary studies
on music and various other fields, including literature, dramatic
arts, visual arts, acoustics, aesthetics, anthropology, sociology,
linguistics and semiotics, mathematics, philosophy, physiology, psychology,
and physics.
Search Tips:
For most searching, use the "basic" search mode. For more specific searching, utilize the "advanced" search mode.
If you are unsure of the spelling of a composer's name, choose "advanced" search mode and select "sounds like" under
"word form options" (e.g. - "Ligety" will work for the proper spelling "Ligeti").
Write down, email, or print all the information listed in the
citation(s) (journal title, volume, number, year, pages, etc.)
so that you can find the article in the library. |
View an example of a search in RILM.
Related Databases
Arts
and Humanities Citation Index
Indexes the world's leading arts and humanities journals including
articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters, reviews, and more.
The database contains citations of articles from 1980 to the present.
Search Tips:
- next to citation means the library subscribes to the journal
that contains that article. You can also limit your search
by clicking on the subscriptions held by my library box
in the Limit availability to: section of the search
page.
Write down, email, or print all the information listed in the
citation(s) (journal title, volume, number, year, pages, etc.)
so that you can find the article in the library. |
EBSCOhost
(Academic Search Premier)
Academic Search Premier is a good interdiciplinary
database with a large number of full-text articles.
Search Tips:
Use the "Refine Search" section to limit your results to get only full-text, scholary
journals, etc. |
View an example of a search on Academic Search
Premier
ERIC
(Through EBSCOhost)
ERIC, sponsored by the US Department of Education, is the premier
national bibliographic database of education literature. This is
a good resource for music education materials.
ERIC consists:
Resources in Education, which covers the document literature, consisting
of research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers,
and books.
Current Index to Journals in Education, which covers published
journal literature from over 775 periodicals.
The database also includes the full text of ERIC Digest Records. These
one- to two-page records, written specifically for teachers, administrators,
and other practitioners, provide an overview of information on a given
topic and supply references with more detailed information.
Search Tips:
Write down, email, or print all the information listed in the citation(s)
(journal title, volume, number, year, pages, etc.) so that you can
find the article in the library. |
For a listing of all databases (music and other), see our
alphabetical listing of databases.
STEP
2
Go find the journal (magazine) in the library
Take your citation(s) that you have written down or printed
out
Example: Here is a citation from IIMP.
Harrison, John. "Deconstructing the Heroic Quest in 'The Love
for Three Oranges.'" Opera Journal 31:5 (December 1998):
4-18
Opera Journal- title of the journal
31:5 - Volume number (31) followed by issue number (5)
(December 1998) - date of the issue
4-18 - page numbers
Journal,
Magazine & Newspaper Title Search (online or in print)
Type the title to find journals, newspapers, annuals, etc. Search
by journal title (Not the title of the article). In the example above
you would search for Opera Journal.
If you search for Opera Journal you will get a two results
in the catalog:
Opera Journal: INTERNET
Opera Journal: MAIN LIBRARY
This means that the journal is available online and physically in
the library. When you go into the record that is marked INTERNET
it will have a link to the online resource that has the journal along
with the years that are available
Example:
Full text from International Index to Music Periodicals Full
Text: 03/01/1996 to present
If the article is not available online in full-text (MAIN LIBRARY and/or MICROFORMS), write down the location
and call number. Recent issues are located in the Current
Periodical Room on the second floor of the library. Older issues
are either bound and on the shelves by call number or on microfilm.
If you found an article that you really want that is not
in the library, you can order it through Interlibrary
Loan (ILL). Do not use ILL for articles you need tomorrow.
Search Tip :
Open a new window or tab in your browser while you are searching
a database and look up the journal information at the same time
you are looking at the citations. This will allow you to see if
you can get the article in print or in full-text in another database. |
STEP 3
Still can't find an article you need or having trouble with using a
database? Ask for help at the reference desk on the first floor of the
library.
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