The databases below are recommended by the Research Librarian for Music.
If you need any assistance, please contact a librarian using the information in the Need Help? box to the right OR chat with a librarian live 24/7 using the chat widget on the right.
The Music Index is a comprehensive guide to music periodicals and literature featuring digitized content from 1970 to present. This database contains indexing and abstracts of articles about music, musicians, and the music industry for more periodicals, as well as book reviews, obituaries, and news.
Concurrent searching in Academic Search Premier and Omnifile Mega for full-text articles, including peer-reviewed titles; indexing and abstracts; and bibliographic citations. These scholarly collections offer information in nearly every area of academic study.
Citations to articles from key academic journals in the humanities (1984 - present), including art, communications, dance, gender studies, history, literature, music, philosophy, & theatre.
Streaming audio of contemporary jazz recordings from Scandinavia, the United States, Germany, Australia and New Zealand. (Currently accesses the Contemporary Jazz section of the general Naxos Music Library.)
Naxos Music Library (NML) is the world´s largest online classical music library.
The NML offers the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues plus the complete catalogues or selected titles from over 650 record labels,. Along with classical music, jazz, world, and pop/rock are also represented. (3 simultaneous user limit)
Readers’ Guide Full Text Mega includes indexing for periodicals as far back as 1983 and searchable full text of articles as far back as 1994. PDF page images of full-text articles provide access to illustrations, photographs and other graphical content from the original article.
Readers’ Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 provides indexing of articles from more than 550 leading magazines, including full coverage of the original print volumes of Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature.
