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Music Indexes & Databases

Journal Indexes - These indexes and databases are the ones most likely to be relevant to research in Music. See Articles, Journals & Databases for a full list of available online databases.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Huge citation database with full text for many items, covering a wide range of music-related topics in scholarly and popular publications. If you are looking for writing about music, this is where you should start. 1518-present.

Music Index
citations for articles in music journals, as
well as articles on music in more general periodicals, from 1979 to the present. Over 650 international journals are indexed.

Performing Arts Database-FullText This link opens in a new window
Indexing, abstracts, and selected full text from scholarly and popular international performing arts periodicals. Subject coverage includes dance, film, television, drama, theatre, stagecraft, musical theatre, broadcast, circus, comedy, storytelling, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic, and more. 1864-current

Online journals

Free online journals

Music Theory Online - A journal of the Society for Music Theory.

Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music - Published by the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, by arrangement with University of Illinois Press.

Music & Anthropology - Journal of Musical Anthropology of the Mediterranean

Ethnomusicology OnLine - N.B. This is not the online version of the journal Ethnomusicology, but a separate peer-reviewed publication existing solely in online form.

Sources of subscribed journals:

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full text of articles in academic journals across all disciplines. Most journals do not include the most recent 5 years of content in JSTOR. Also includes academic e-books, and digitized primary source materials from a variety of archives.
Project MUSE - Premium Collection This link opens in a new window
Full text of articles from a wide range of academic journals in the humanities and social sciences. 1920–current.

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