Databases for Music
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Key Databases
- Grove Music Online
- Includes full text with ongoing updates of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed.; The New Grove Dictionary of Opera; and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd ed.
- The Music Index
- Indexes articles, reviews, and news items in more than 725 international music periodicals covering all styles and genres of music, as well as musicians and the music industry, published 1974 to the present.
- RILM Abstracts of Musical Literature
- Indexes and abstracts articles, conference proceedings, Festschrifts, books, dissertations, and theses on music from both music and non-music journals, 1968 to present
- Beethoven Bibliography Database
- Indexes bibliography of published (and selected unpublished) materials relating to the composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
- Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology (DDM-Online)
- Indexes musicology dissertations in-progress and a bibliography of completed dissertations arranged under broad categories, 1995 to present
- Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum (TML)
- Database of the entire corpus of Latin music theory written during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (4th-17th centuries)
Additional Databases
- WorldCat
- Books and other materials held in most academic, research and large public libraries worldwide
- Academic Search Premier
- Provides full text and indexing of thousands of journals in all academic fields. Dates vary according to publication
- American National Biography
- Full-text from 1999 edition, including nearly 17,500 biographies of men and women whose lives have shaped the American nation, with essays, bibliographies, illustrations and web links; subjects must have died prior to 1996
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science)
- Indexes over 1,000 scholarly journals from the arts and humanities. Unique feature allows access to the indexed articles' cited references (i.e. the bibliographies or reference list). Enables the researcher to see the relationships between the older cited references and the current work, 1975 to present
- Current Research @ Brandeis University
- Indexes and abstracts Brandeis University dissertations and theses submitted to UMI's Dissertation Abstracts database, 1960-present, includes 24 page previews and downloadable full text, 1996-present
- Dissertation Abstracts
- Indexes and abstracts dissertations accepted at accredited U.S. institutions (selectively covers Canadian, British and European dissertations, and masters theses), 1861 to present
See also Current Research @ Brandeis University for current Brandeis theses, 1960-present, with downloadable full text for 1996-present
- Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
- Full text of the complete Encyclopaedia Britannica and Britannica Book of the Year
- JSTOR
- Indexes and provides full-text to the older issues of over 100 scholarly journal titles from most disciplines, 1800s to the recent 2-5 years
- Project Muse
- Full text access to over 160 journal titles, the bulk of which are produced by university presses
- yourDictionary.com
- Accesses over 400 dictionaries and grammars in 100 languages
Multidisciplinary Databases
- America: History and Life
- Indexes journals, books, and dissertations on U.S. and Canadian history and culture, 1964 to present
- ATLA Religion Database
- Indexes journal articles, books and dissertations on all aspects of world religions, 1949 to present
- Bibliography of Asian Studies
- Indexes western-language monographs, articles and book chapters on the social sciences and humanities pertaining to all parts of Asia, 1971 to present
- Contemporary Women's Issues
- Indexes and provides full text to 600 journals, newsletters and reports relating to women's studies, 1992 to present
- Encyclopaedia Judaica
- Full text of the 2007 2nd edition including recent Year Books, Decennial volumes, and updated articles pertaining to major recent events
- Ethnic NewsWatch
- Indexes and provides full text of over 200 newspapers, magazines and journals of the American ethnic press, 1960 to present, starting dates vary
- Handbook of Latin American Studies Online
- Selective annotated bibliography of scholarly works on Latin America in the humanities and social sciences from the Library of Congress. Includes books, journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, and electronic resources. 1935-present, including contents of future print volumes.
- Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI)
- Indexes articles on Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean and Hispanics in the United States, 1970 to present
- Historical Abstracts
- Indexes journals, books, and dissertations on European and world history, excluding the United States and Canada, 1955 to present
- Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
- Indexes articles and reviews on the Middle Ages and Renaissance from over 1,114 journals, and provides other scholarly resources, 1843 to present
- MLA Bibliography
- Indexes journals, monographs, working papers and proceedings in literature, language, linguistics and folklore, 1963 to present
- Women's Studies International
- Indexes journal literature, books, and mixed media from 10 women's studies databases, 1972 to present
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