Journal Articles:

Common Database Choices

• Academic Search Premier (many full-text) All subjects. [INFO and SLIDECAST TUTORIAL]
• Humanities International Index (many full-text) [INFO]
• IPA Source - International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts
• JSTOR Arts & Sciences Collections I, II, III, IV & V (full-text backfiles) [INFO] [Tutorial]
• Naxos Music Library [Video Tutorial]
• Naxos Music Library – Jazz [Video Tutorial]
• Naxos Spoken Word Library [Info]
• Naxos Video Library [Video Tutorial]
• Project MUSE (Basic Research Collection) (full-text backfiles) [INFO]
• Web of Knowledge [INFO]

Database Choices for Specialized Topics

• America: History and Life(links to full-text)
• ARTstor (digital works of art) [INFO]
• Dissertation Abstracts Online
• ERIC (links to full-text) [INFO and SLIDECAST TUTORIAL]
• FirstSearch (Ask at Reference Desk for password) [INFO]
• FirstSearch journal titles list
• Kraus K-12 Curriculum Guides (many full-text) [INFO]
• World History Collection (all full-text) [INFO]

News, Analysis, and Opinion:

• The Chronicle of Higher Education
• CQ Researcher (all full-text) [INFO]
• LexisNexis Academic (business/law/reference; all full-text) [INFO]
• New York Times 1980-present
• New York Times Digital Archive, 1851- (all full-text) [INFO]
• Newspaper Source (mostly full-text) [INFO]
• Opposing Viewpoints in Context (all full-text) [INFO]
• Regional Business News (many full-text) [INFO]
• Union Leader/NH Sunday News (all full-text) [INFO]
• Wall Street Journal 1984-present

Reference:

• Credo reference (all full-text) [INFO]
• Encyclopaedia Britannica (all full-text) [INFO]
• Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia [INFO]
• Gale Virtual Reference Library (Reference E-books) [INFO]
• Encyclopedia of Communication and Information (Gale EBook)
• Oxford English Dictionary (OED) (all full-text) [INFO]

Web Sites:

• IPL2 (Internet Public Library) — Subject Index

• AllMusic
• The Aria Database
• DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals — Music
• DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals — Theater
• The Lied and Art Song Texts Page
• MusiPedia
• Online Music Scores (to Download)
• Public Domain Music Scores
• SearchTheBeat
• Worldwide Internet Music Resources (Indiana University)
• WWW Sites of Interest to Musicologists (American Musicological Society)

Browse Journals:

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Selected Journals by Title

[Note: This is only a partial list. To find access to other journals by title, use the A-Z Journal List.]

Journals by Subject

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• Music

Music and books on music (~98)
Literature on music (~69)
History and criticism (~12)
Philosophy and physics of music (~2)
Societies and organizations (~2)
Music (~3)
Musical instruction and study (~4)
History and criticism (~2)
Music theory (1)
Special methods (1)

• Theatre
  • Drama (~47)
• Dance
  • Dancing (~9)

Books:

Searching Library Catalogs

• Catalog

• Google Books

• WorldCat

Library of Congress Classification System

Consult the Library of Congress Classification system to find areas to browse in the general collection or in the reference section.

• Library of Congress Classification
• Library of Congress Classification:Class A — General Works
• Library of Congress Classification:Class B — Philosophy Psychology Religion
  
• Library of Congress Classification:Class C — Auxiliary Sciences of History
• Library of Congress Classification:Class D — History General and Old World
• Library of Congress Classification:Class E — History of America
• Library of Congress Classification:Class F — Local History of the United States and Latin America
• Library of Congress Classification:Class G — Geography Anthropology Recreation (Dance)
  
• Library of Congress Classification:Class H — Social Sciences
• Library of Congress Classification:Class J — Political Science
  
• Library of Congress Classification:Class K — Law
• Library of Congress Classification:Class L — Education
• Library of Congress Classification:Class M — Music
  
• Library of Congress Classification:Class N — Fine Arts
• Library of Congress Classification:Class P — Language and Literature (Theater)
• Library of Congress Classification:Class Q — Science
• Library of Congress Classification:Class S — Agriculture
• Library of Congress Classification:Class T — Technology
• Library of Congress Classification:Class U — Military Science
• Library of Congress Classification:Class V — Naval Science
• Library of Congress Classification:Class Z — Bibliography Library Science Information Resources

Associations:

• American Composers Forum
• American Music Center
• American Musical Instrument Society
• American Musicological Society
• Association for Recorded Sound Collections
• International Association for the Study of Popular Music
• Music Library Association
• Music Publishers’ Association
• Recording Industry Association of America
• Society for American Music
• Society for Ethnomusicology
• Society for Music Theory
• Society for Seventeenth-Century Music