Music Encyclopedias
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Grove Music Online Online music encyclopedia, offering comprehensive coverage of music, musicians, music-making, and music scholarship.
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MGG online Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG) is a general German-language encyclopedia of music, and it offers in-depth articles on every aspect of music as well as many related areas such as literature, philosophy, and visual arts. MGG Online contains the second print edition of MGG, published from 1994 to 2008, as well as current, continuous online updates and additions
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RILM Music Encyclopedias RILM Music Encyclopedias is a full-text compilation of reference works and is a unique collection of 41 seminal encyclopedias published between 1775 and 2015. International in scope.
Music Research Databases
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Arts & Humanities Citation Index (via Web of Science) Indexing and abstracts of millions of peer-reviewed articles in the arts and humanities disciplines. Also includes book chapters, conference papers and other formats. Cited and citing reference searching.
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Music Index Online Music Index Online covers topics concerned with every aspect of the classical and popular world of music. Dates of coverage: 1979-present.
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Music Industry Data A single search of international charting albums and singles from Billboard, the Official Charts Company. Sophisticated tools allow you to interpret, graph, analyse, compare and contrast musical trends and interactions at the touch of a button. Listen to a wide variety of audio samples.
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Music Magazine Archive Music Magazine Archive is a series of digital collections focused on 20th and 21st century genres such as Rock, Folk, Hip-Hop, and Rap. This collection contains 1,461 issues comprising 100,696 pages and 91,441 articles.
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RILM Full Text Comprehensive music bibliography providing international coverage of music literature. Dates of coverage: 1775 to the present.
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RIPM Jazz Periodicals RIPM Jazz Periodicals is a collection of 105 American full-text jazz journals and magazines published. Developed in collaboration with the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University and partner libraries, RIPM Jazz Periodicals is an essential documentary resource that chronicles American jazz culture as seen through the eyes of its contemporaries. (Dates of coverage: 1914-2000)
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RIPM – With Full Text Citations to articles in scholarly and popular music periodicals. Contains more than 500,000 entries. Dates of Coverage: 1800 and 1950
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RISM: Repertoire International des Sources Musicales An international, cooperative effort to identify and describe the world's pre-1850 musical sources, to record what primary sources exist, and to identify their locations. These sources include manuscripts or printed music, writings on music theory, and libretti.
General eReference Resources
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Gale Virtual Reference LibraryHandbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias in a wide range of subject areas, including Arts, Biography, Business, Education, Environment, History, Law, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Nation and World, Religion, Science, and Social Sciences.
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Oxford ReferenceHundreds of dictionaries, general reference, language reference, and subject reference works from Oxford University Press.
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Oxford DictionariesAuthoritative and comprehensive English bilingual dictionaries online for Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish.
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Oxford Digital Reference ShelfBrings together nearly 200 language and subject reference works in a single cross-searchable resource. Subject areas include: Art & Architecture, Biological Sciences, Classics, Computing, Environmental Sciences, Economics, History, Law, Literature, Maps, Medicine, Military History, Mythology & Folklore, Names & Places, Performing Arts, Physical Sciences & Mathematics, Politics & Social Sciences, Quotations, Religion & Philosophy, Science.
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Oxford Research EncyclopediasDesigned to be an authoritative resource of reference content in a wide array of academic fields, including the humanities, social sciences, and science.
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Sage KnowledgeDictionaries, encyclopedias, guides and handbooks from a range of social science fields.
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Very Short IntroductionsProvides concise introductions to a diverse range of subjects. Subject categories include: Arts and humanities, Law, Medicine and health, Science and mathematics, Social sciences.
InterLibrary Loan
Can't find what you need? For books, try OhioLINK. For books not available through OhioLINK and for other types of materials, use Interlibrary Loan (ILL). ILL lets you borrow materials from non-OhioLINK libraries, including print books, scanned journal articles, musical scores, videos, theses/dissertations, and more.
Contact ill@oberlin.edu with questions.
Databases Good for All Subjects
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Academic Search Complete Multidisciplinary - good for nearly all subjects. Scholarly and trade journals, popular magazines, newspapers, conference proceedings, book reviews, and more.
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OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center ( EJC) Scholarly journals in humanities, social sciences,and natural sciences, as well as engineering.
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JSTOR Scholarly journal archive for the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences; current issues (usually the last 2-5 years) are not digitized by JSTOR and may be obtained elsewhere.
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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I Citations and abstracts for dissertations and theses on all subjects from around the world. Previews and full text available for some titles.
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Readers' Guide Abstracts (1983 to date ) Citations and abstracts for popular magazine articles on all subjects.
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Readers' Guide Retrospective (1890-1982) Indexing of articles in historical American popular magazines of all types.
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Web of Science Scholarly literature in the sciences, health and medicine, social sciences, arts, and humanities and proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions. Includes cited reference searching across many databases. Search all databases in Web of Science (includes Medline and BIOSIS, direct link for on-campus users). Dates of coverage: 1965 to present.
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