Centre College Library - Music Databases

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Academic Search Premier: A multi-disciplinary index to periodicals that covers over 8,000 scholarly and popular periodicals, and includes full-text for more than 4,500 of these. Designed specifically for academic institutions, ASP spans most areas of study. Coverage varies, but most titles begin in the late 1980's and early 1990's.
Grove Music Online (now Oxford Music Online): Grove Music Online is an integrated music resource on the web, including the full-text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Grove Music Online is updated several times annually to ensure it remains up to date.
JSTOR: Full-text back files of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. JSTOR includes many journals in the area of music.
NOTE: Coverage varies by title, but the most recent 2-5 years is not available.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature: RILM is a comprehensive international guide to scholarly writings about music. Coverage includes journal articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, dissertations, Festschriften, films and videos, iconographies, critical commentaries to complete works, ethnographic recordings, conference proceedings, electronic resources, and reviews. Coverage is from 1967 to the present.

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International Index to Music Periodicals: Indexing and abstracts for more than 420 international music periodicals, plus full-text for 83 journals. IIMP also provides author/title-keyword access to 130 titles dating as far back as 1874. IIMP covers nearly all aspects of the world of music, from the most scholarly studies to the latest crazes.
OmniFile Full Text Mega: Collection of several Wilson full-text databases that includes indexing, abstracting, and full-text from core academic journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Indexing dates back to 1984; full text of articles begins in 1995.
Oxford Reference Online: Performing Arts: Offers complete content of more than 125 titles from Oxford University Press. The collection includes dictionaries, encyclopedias, and reference works in more than 20 subject areas, including music and the performing arts.
Project Muse: Collection of full-text journals in the humanities and social sciences including coverage of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and economics.

Last updated August 28, 2008