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To locate journal or magazine articles, you must use article indexes or databases.  
You can use these selected databases to start tracking down music-related articles. 

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Music-Specific Databases & Indexes
General Databases 
   RILM Abstracts of Music Literature   Academic Search Elite
   Music Index   LexisNexis Academic
   Grove Music Online   Dissertations and Theses
  Beethoven Bibliography Database   ERIC
  Canadian Music Periodical Index   Humanities Abstracts

 
 RILM Abstracts of Music Literature          
Books, journals, conference papers, dissertations, book chapters, bibliographies, catalogs, media materials, and all forms of scholarly communication related to music. Coverage: 1969 to present.  Updated monthly.  
 Music Index 
Contains data from 775 international music periodicals from over 40 countries in 22 languages. It covers all styles and genres of music. Included are book reviews, obituaries, news and articles about music, musicians and the music industry. Updated quarterly. 
 Grove Music Online 
The online version of the second edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians plus the New Grove Dictionary of Opera and New Grove Dictionary of Jazz--definitive sources of information on all aspects of music. Includes notated musical examples, images, and digital sound. Ongoing updates. 
Beethoven Bibliography Database
The Beethoven Bibliography Database is a fully-indexed bibliography of published materials relating to Ludwig van Beethoven. It contains 6,200 records for books, articles, and scores. 
Canadian Music Periodical Index 
CMPI is an index to Canadian music periodical literature on all aspects of musical activity in Canada. Updated monthly, the database currently includes more than 25,000 entries indexed from  475 Canadian music journals, newsletters and magazines from the late nineteenth century to the present day. 
Academic Search Elite 
General subject database containing indexing and abstracts for nearly 3,000 journals, with many dating back to 1984. Good for finding reviews, recent articles, etc.  Academic Search Elite also provides full-text data for over 1,200 journals, with some information dating back to 1990. 
 LexisNexis Academic 
Use to find newspaper articles on reviews, openings, obituaries, etc. Coverage: most files started between 1970 and 1985 and run to the present.    
Dissertations and Theses 
Doctoral dissertations and masters theses from over 1,000 North American and European universities.  Search for musical dissertations by keyword.  Coverage: 1861 to date.  Updated monthly. 
ERIC 
References to thousands of educational topics, including music education. Coverage: 1966 to date. Updated monthly.
Humanities Abstracts
      Humanities and Social Sciences Retrospective
More than 400 periodicals on archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world literature. Abstracts are available from March 1994 to date. Coverage: Humanities Abstracts, February 1984 to date, Humanities and Social Sciences Retrospective, 1907-84. 
 
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Kristina L. Shanton
Updated by Leslie Andersen, Arts Librarian

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  Last Updated 9/26/06