These two journals are the most commonly used research resources for music therapists and music therapy students. There are occasionally articles about music therapy published through other journals, however, because music therapy has such a wide application.
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.
** Expanded access continues as we work to implement a new contract for JSTOR's new all-access model, which will provide access to all archival journals and primary source content. **
Back volumes for 2,890 journals from the very first issue but usually excluding the most current 2-5 years, though almost 100 with coverage through the most recent issue. 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.
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.
Grove Music Online is built from a print source published since 1878 and its sibling publications, plus hundreds of articles commissioned specifically for the online edition, and is presented on the Oxford Music Online platform. Grove Music Online offers over 57,000 articles written by over 9,000 music scholars.
Terms searched in Grove Music Online can then also be easily searched in the Oxford Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music, with links off to the articles in those sources on the Oxford Reference platform.
Titles include:
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition (29 volumes, 2001)
The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd edition (3 volumes, 2002)
The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (4 volumes, 1992)
The Norton Grove Dictionary of Women Composers (1 volume, 1994)
The Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd edition (8 volumes, 2013; in process)
The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, 2nd edition (5 volumes, 2014; in process)
Not one database but over a dozen different databases on the EBSCOhost platform, covering a wide array of topics and sources, combined here to search them all at once.
Great for business, economics, nursing, health sciences, communication, education, literary studies, music, psychology, public administration, social work, and sports & exercise sciences.
Not as great for history, natural and applied sciences, the arts, philosophy, sociology, or magazines/newspapers.
Currently searches these databases:
Business Source Ultimate, CINAHL Complete, Civil War Primary Source Documents, Communication Source, Education Source, Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts, Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print, MLA Directory of Periodicals, MLA International Bibliography, Music Index, APA PsycArticles, APA PsycInfo, Public Administration Abstracts, Social Work Abstracts, SPORTDiscus with Full Text, eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
A streaming video platform that enables access to thousands of films from such providers as PBS, National Geographic, NOVA, Ken Burns, BBC, Frontline, ABC, CBC, NBC, TED, Bill Moyers, the American Museum of Natural History, and many more.
Browse by subject collection or producer or search by title or words in transcript. You can also search by copyright date and limit by various advanced features including limiting to only those programs with closed-captioning. Link directly to individual films or to specific segments within them.
Interlibrary Loan
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