Music Subject Guide   Tags: music  

Search for articles and books across multiple databases simultaneously.

Not sure where to start your research? Try here.

First, you need to know what tools you'll use. Then you'll need to know what you're looking for. So lets look at a few key points:

• Databases are ways of organizing and accessing many types and formats of information. Most of the databases the library offers contain articles from many different journals, magazines, and/or newspapers (though some also contain music audio files or scores) and are both searchable and browseable.

• So, what's the difference between journals, magazines, and articles and what do searchable and browseable mean?

• Journals are collections of articles on a particular subject - like magazines, except they're more specialized. They are written by scholars for scholars and frequently are peer-reviewed, which means that a group of scholars / experts in the field had to decide that the article was well enough written and researched to be published in the journal.

• Articles are sort of like the papers you write for class - except they're much longer, contain more in depth research, and are generally written by scholars.

• Searchable means you can search though all the articles in a database by Keyword (just like Google) or by Subject terms (sort of like tags in del.icio.us or amazon, but created by professionals / scholars in the specific field).

• Browseable means you can look through all the issues of a specific journal title within that database - sort of like pulling a copy off the shelf to look through, but electronically.

The databases below are helpful for finding online journal articles.

All of our listening databases - arranged alphabetically.

Databases with content from multiple disciplines that may be useful for music research