Databases provide you with access to a wide range of articles that can be used as resources for your paper. When searching in the database, keep in mind the terms listed below. They will assist you in navigating the databases and locating resources.
By selecting the full text box in a database, you are ensuring that the database will only retrieve articles that are available in their complete format. If you do not select the full text box, you will still receive results, but you may only receive the citations.
Articles that are submitted to a scholarly journal must first be evaluated by an editorial team for the journal. This team reviews the article in order to verify that the research is authentic. If you know that you must use scholarly journals for your assignment, you should select this box.
An abstract is a short summary, detailing the main idea of a journal article. Searching within the abstracts of articles can assist you in locating information that is pertinent to your topic.
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Jazz Music Library is the largest and most comprehensive collection of streaming jazz available online — with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres.
Music Online allows users cross search all of the music databases published by Alexander Street Press.
Music Online can potentially cross-search any combination of these databases: American Song, Classical Music Library, Contemporary World Music, Dance in Video, Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries, and Jazz Music Library.
The most comprehensive collection of classical music available online.
It includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Dacapo catalogues of over 85,000 tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. We have 10 simultaneous users capacity.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, published by Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale, New York, contains records in over 200 languages;
entries include original-language titles, title translations in English, full bibliographic information, and abstracts in English, as well as author, journal, and in-depth subject indexes.
Rock’s Backpages is the largest database of rock journalism online, covering all genres of popular music from the 1950s to the present.
There are currently over seventeen thousand articles on the site. These feature over two thousand artists and range from 500-word reviews to 10,000-word interviews and features. The articles are full text and fully searchable (by artist, date, genre, keyword etc.) including a sophisticated ‘advanced search’ option. Written by over four hundred of the biggest names in rock journalism, they are taken from the widest possible range of publications in the US and UK.
