scholarly articles for music
Databases are used to locate journal, magazine, and newspaper articles about a topic. A subject's premier databases are the ones that are usually the most helpful and are often a good place to start.
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Alphabetical List:
Academic Search Elite
Subject: Multidisciplinary.
Academic Search Elite is a multidisciplinary database covering both popular and scholarly journals. This database is most useful for students in the early stages of research, because searches return a broad range of article results
Arts & Humanities Search
Subject: Humanities.
Arts & Humanities Search covers articles in the world's leading arts and humanities journals. Some social science and science journals are also included.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Subject: Multidisciplinary
The Directory of Open Access Journals is a selection of freely available full-text journals in a variety of subjects. Their search page is one way to find articles that are freely available.
HighWire Press Stanford University
Subject: Multidisciplinary.
HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content, with 1054 journals and 4,343,436 full text articles from over 130 scholarly publishers. Some articles are available in full text.
JSTOR
Subject: Humanities. Social Sciences. Sciences.
JSTOR provides access to core scholarly journals covering many liberal arts disciplines: African American Studies, African Studies, Anthropology, Archaeology, Asian Studies, Biological Sciences, Business, Classical Studies, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Economics, Education, Finance, Geography, History, History of Science & Technology, Language & Literature, Latin American Studies, Mathematics, Middle East Studies, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology, and Statistics.
RILM(Répertoire International de Litérature Musicale)
Subject: Humanities > Music.
RILM is the premier database for finding articles related to music topics. It contains abstracts for articles from over 500 scholarly music journals and chapters in some books.
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