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Music Databases and Indexes

Music Databases | Related Databases | Indexes to Printed Music | Historical Indexes | Citation Indexes

 

Journals are an important source of up-to-date, highly specific information. The Louise Hanson-Dyer Music Library Journals Collection is quite extensive and many titles are available full-text online.

Indexes are the best way of identifying relevant journal articles and other useful materials.

Music Databases

information Oxford Music - Grove Music Online - Encyclopedia. Instructions & Guide
information JSTOR (EZP) Index with Full Text. Guide
information Music Index Online 1974- (EBSCO) Index with selective fulltext. Guide
information Music Education Resource Base - Index.
information RILM Abstracts (CSA), 1967- Index with selective fulltext. Guide
information RIPM Online, 1800-1950 - Index. Guide
information Index to the Australian Musical News 1911-1963 / Lina Marsi.
information Music Australia
information Canadian Music Periodical Index (National Library of Canada) - Index.
information CAIRSS for Music - Index. Guide
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Related & Popular Databases

informationGoogle Scholar Search
Search books, journals and other materials from academic publishers, professional societies and pre-print archives.
Set Scholar Preferences to display Source It symbol links to University of Melbourne holdings and subscriptions.
- From welcome screen, choose Scholar Preferences
- Library Links enter MELBOURNE in Find library box.
- Check box - SourceIt @ Melbourne
- Click Save Preferences
Use Advanced Scholar Search for best results.

 

informationGoogle Advanced Book Search - Using Google Book Search
Search the full text of books to discover those that are most useful to you. From your results, you'll be able to see everything from a few short excerpts to the entire book. Alternatively, for each book,
- use the Borrow this book "Find this book in a library" link.
- Choose "Get this item" to display a list of Australian libraries where the book can be borrowed, or,
- use the University Library catalogue for local holdings.
information Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
information Blackwell Synergy
information British Humanities Index, 1962-
information Current Contents Connect
information Education: A SAGE Full-Text Collection (CSA)
information Educational Research Abstracts (Taylor & Francis)
information Emerald Fulltext (Emerald)
information ERIC (CSA)
information Expanded Academic ASAP 1980-
information Film Index International Online (Proquest)
information Google Scholar
information Historical Abstracts (ABC-CLIO)
information ingentaconnect.com (Ingenta)
information International Medieval Bibliography (Brepols)
information Oxford Journals
information Project Muse
information PsycINFO (CSA)
information Psychology + Behavior (EBSCO)
information SpringerLink (MetaPress)
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Indexes to Printed Music and manuscripts

informationIndex to Printed Music : Collections & Series - Guide
An online index for finding music scores printed in standard scholarly editions, historical collections and series. Each individual work in a collection is indexed, allowing retrieval by composer, title, collection as well as by specific performing forces.

 

Index to Renaissance Vocal Music in Collections - Compiled by Carol Ohlers, Scott Library, York University, Toronto, Ontario.
This index is limited to sacred and secular vocal music. Volumes in indexed collections that contain only instrumental music have been excluded as well as instrumental selections in indexed volumes

 

[Print] Collected editions, historical series & sets & monuments of music

 

[Print] Historical sets, collected editions, and monuments of music : a guide...

 

information RISM Online
International Inventory of Musical Sources (RISM) aims to comprehensively document the world's musical sources of manuscripts or printed music, works on music theory and libretti stored in libraries, archives, monasteries, schools and private collections.
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Historical Indexes

information JSTOR (EZP) Index with Full Text. - Guide
information RIPM Online, 1800-1950 - Index. Guide
[Print] Analyses of nineteenth- and twentieth-century music, 1940-1985
[Print] The history of music : an index to the literature available ...
[Print] Music criticism : an annotated guide to the literature.
[Print] Music Index, 1949-
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Citation Indexes

A citation index lets you find out where and by whom a paper has been cited.

information Web of Science (ISI)
Includes the following citaiton indexes:
* Science Citation Index Expanded®,
* Social Sciences Citation Index®,
* Arts & Humanities Citation Index®. - Guide to Citation Databases
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