Research Guides: Music Guide: Find Articles & Journals

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Indexes and Databases

EBSCOHost Research Databases This link opens in a new window
Provides access to all subscribed, complimentary, and trial EBSCO databases: Business Source Premier, Regional Business News, the Serials Database, CINAHL, Nursing and Allied Health Comprehensive, LISTA, the music databases--IPM, RIPM, and RISM, Urban Studies Abstracts, Communication and Mass Media Complete, and the EJS Journal Collection. Databases can be searched individually or in combination. (All EBSCOHost databases are listed individually in Databases Search as well.)
Humanities Source Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Indexes periodicals in archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world literature. Coverage: citations & abstracts, 1907- ; select full text, 1994-.
IPM: Collections & Series This link opens in a new window
Index to music printed in scholarly editions. Coverage: music from ancient Greece to the present.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
The JSTOR database consists of complete backfiles of core scholarly journals in all disciplines. Coverage: varies--going back to first year of publication and coming up to 3-5 years ago. See the Project Muse database for scholarly articles from within the past 3-5 years.
Music Index Online This link opens in a new window
Indexes 800 international music periodicals. Includes book reveiws, obituaries, articles, and news about music, musicians, and the music industry. Coverage 1973-present.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Provides access to the full text of more than 200 scholarly journals in many disciplines, including: African studies, anthropology, education, history, music, literature, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and more. Coverage: varies, typically the past 3-5 years.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new window
Provides bibliographic data and abstracts for over 500 scholarly journals, as well as books, dissertations, conference proceedings and other materials related to music, also concert reviews and recording notes if of scholarly interest. Multilingual and worldwide in scope. Coverage: 1967-.
RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals This link opens in a new window
International index to 18th, 19th, and 20th century periodical literature dealing with music.
RISM: International Inventory of Musical Sources after 1600 This link opens in a new window
Annotated index and guide to music manuscripts found in libraries worldwide.

RIdIM
Répertoire Internationale d'Iconographie Musicale database
Music Periodicals Database

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Use the U of M catalog as your first option for locating books, e-books, scores, journal titles (but not articles), audio and video recordings, electronic databases, and microfilm or microfiche.

For tips on searching: Keyword, Author/Composer, Title, Subject, Number, Advanced Search.

These electronic indexes are specifically focused on music:

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Search by title or subject to find journals in the catalog (but not individual articles). The catalog entry will indicate what issues/volumes are held in the library and whether it is available in one of our electronic databases.

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For articles not found in U of M print holdings or in one of our licensed databases, our Interlibrary Loan service is available to current U of M students, faculty, and staff and to Belhaven College (Memphis campus) students.