Clark Family Library: Music: Finding Articles and Online Resources

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Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Offers full-text access to over 12,000 journals, including more than 10,000 peer-reviewed titles. A great database to start your research
Art & Architecture Source This link opens in a new window
Covers fine and commercial art, sculpture, and additional emphasis on architecture. Offers over 63,000 art images, 600 full-text journals dating back to 1990 and more than 220 full-text books.
Grove Music Online This link opens in a new window
Grove Music Online is an online resource that covers all aspects of music. Database includes the full-text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 2nd ed., plus additional music texts. GMO offers over 50,000 signed articles and 30,000 biographies.
Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new window
Humanities International Complete covers all aspects of the humanities, with worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought. Provides full-text of more than 1,030 journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Another great database to start your research.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full- text of back issues of peer-reviewed journals as far back as the 1800s in the arts, sciences, ecology, botany, language, literature, and music. Multidisciplinary.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture This link opens in a new window
Database offers a wide range of primary sources detailing the arts in Great Britain during the 19th century. It includes the full-text of 150 publications and more than 3,000 manuscripts from theatre archives of playbills and scripts to music archives of operas. Use the drop-down menu to select the database you want to search.
Project Muse: Basic Undergraduate Collection This link opens in a new window
Collection of heavily indexed and peer-reviewed journals in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. Database includes 340 full-text journals from 80 scholarly publishers from 1995 to present. MUSE.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (1967 – Present Only) This link opens in a new window
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature offers a comprehensive music database featuring citations, abstracts and indexes. It covers articles in 10,000 journals. Includes over 800,000 records. Click "Linked Full-Text” box to find full-text articles.

The College Music Society
The College Music Society promotes music teaching and learning, musical creativity and expression, research and dialogue, and diversity and interdisciplinary interaction.
Digital Resources for Musicology
A portal for open access projects relating to musicology (the study of music).
Finding Scores Online - Towson University Libraries
This curated research guide from Towson University Libraries provides a range of mostly Western-focused online score repositories. Please do not use the first link in the guide as it requires a TU login to access.
Free Online Music Resources - University of Virginia Libraries
This research guide created by the University of Virginia Libraries offers a host of curated free online resources relating to a variety of music topics from music history to music education to music composition and more.
The Institute for Composer Diversity
The Institute for Composer Diversity is affiliated with SUNY Fredonia and works to encourage the discovery, study, and performance of music written by composers from historically excluded groups.
Music Theory Study Resources - Brown University Library
This curated research guide from Brown University Library offers free online resources to help those learning music theory.
MusRef (Brigham Young University)
"MusRef, a portal from the music library at Brigham Young University, includes an online bibliography of reference sources for music, both print and online, as well as guides for getting started with music reference sources. This site includes a huge collection of links to the vast world of freely available information about music on the web." - Brown University Library
Online Resources for Music Scholars - Harvard Loeb Music Library
This curated set of resources from Harvard Loeb Music Library caters to non-Harvard researchers and offers a wide variety of freely available resources.
World Music Network
The popular website acts as a portal featuring up to date news, previews, guide sections, exclusive charts and an original Battle of the Bands competition. Their mission is to carry on introducing new listeners to the vast array of glorious global sounds.

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