InfoGuides: Music Therapy: Get Started

Introduction

"Music Therapy is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program." - American Music Therapy Association

This guide is intended for the use of West Texas A&M University students pursuing a Major in Music with a Concentration in Music Therapy.

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Journal of Music Therapy
A vast number of peer reviewed journals through Oxford University Press and the American Music Therapy Association. Articles found here directly relate to common coursework in the music therapy program.

JSTOR
** Until June 30, 2021, due to the COVID-19 crisis, JSTOR is providing free access to a much greater number of journals. **

Back volumes for 880 journals from the very first issue but excluding the most current 2-5 years. About 20 titles have coverage through the most recent issue, and about 5 have current but not historical coverage. General subject areas include art & architecture, Asian studies, botany, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, language & literature, mathematics, music, philosophy, political science, population studies, sociology and statistics.

Format: Majority full-text; some additional full-text via link resolver, Coverage: Dates vary with beginning date of journal., Truncation and Wildcard: + and ----, Search Tips: Boolean commands are supported. Use quotation marks to search keywords as a phrase.
Music Index
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Provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts of articles about music, musicians and the music industry for more than 600 periodicals and selective coverage for more than 200 periodicals.

Truncation and Wildcard: * and ?, Search Tips: Use quotation marks to phrase search. Allows Boolean AND, OR and NOT searching. May limit to full-text, scholarly journals, date, length, publication name and type. HELP link on each screen, which includes Citation information. Can print, save, or email results.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text
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RILM offers "nearly a million bibliographic records" covering musicology, ethnomusicology, theory, instruments, pedagogy, performance, and more, with "in-depth vocabulary-controlled indexing and detailed abstract texts." This enhanced version includes more than 200 journals, 90 of which are not available online anywhere else.
EBSCO Search
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A locally customized combined search of over 60 different EBSCO databases, covering a wide array of topics and sources.

Includes: Academic Search Complete, Agricola, AHFS Consumer Medication Information, America: History and Life with Full Text, American Doctoral Dissertations, Bibliography of Native North Americans, Book Review Digest Plus (H.W. Wilson), Business Abstracts with Full Text (H.W. Wilson), Business Source Ultimate, CINAHL Complete, Civil War Primary Source Documents, Communication Source, Computer Source, Education Source, Educational Administration Abstracts, Energy & Power Source, ERIC, Essay and General Literature Index (H.W. Wilson), Family Studies Abstracts, Fuente Académica Premier, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, GreenFILE, Health Source - Consumer Edition, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, Historical Abstracts with Full Text, Humanities Full Text (H.W. Wilson), Information Science & Technology Abstracts (ISTA), International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text, Legal Collection, Legal Information Reference Center, Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts, Literary Reference Center, MAS Ultra - School Edition, MasterFILE Premier, MedicLatina, MEDLINE, Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print, Middle Search Plus, Military & Government Collection, MLA Directory of Periodicals, MLA International Bibliography, Music Index, Newspaper Source, Play Index (H.W. Wilson), Primary Search, Professional Development Collection, PsycARTICLES, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection, PsycINFO, Public Administration Abstracts, Race Relations Abstracts, Regional Business News, Religion and Philosophy Collection, Science & Technology Collection, Short Story Index (H.W. Wilson), Social Work Abstracts, SPORTDiscus with Full Text, Teacher Reference Center, Texas Reference Center, The Serials Directory, TOPICsearch, Vocational and Career Collection, eBook Academic Collection, eBook Business Collection, eBook Clinical Collection, eBook Collection, eBook Education Collection, eBook EngineeringCore, eBook History Collection, eBook Religion Collection

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