MUSY 101: Introduction to the History and Literature of Music

Grove Music Online (instruction videos)

• Grove Music Online – Searches and search filtering
• Grove Music Online – Works list and Bibliography 
• Grove Music Online – Tools and Resources

• Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive: Music This link opens in a new window A series of digital collections focused on 20th and 21st century music genres such as Rock, Folk, Hip-Hop, and Rap. This collection contains 1,461 issues comprising 100,696 pages and 91,441 articles. Note: Oberlin only has access to Music Magazine Archive through this platform, not the full Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive. 
• Music Index Online This link opens in a new window Music Index Online covers topics concerned with every aspect of the classical and popular world of music. Dates of coverage: 1979-present. 
• RILM Full Text This link opens in a new window Comprehensive music bibliography providing international coverage of music literature. Dates of coverage: 1775 to the present. 
• RIPM – With Full Text This link opens in a new window Citations to articles in scholarly and popular music periodicals. Contains more than 500,000 entries. Dates of Coverage: 1800 and 1950
• RIPM Jazz Periodicals This link opens in a new window 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) 

This video will introduce you to the process of finding scholarly journal articles on music topics using Music Index & RILM.

If you are researching jazz or popular music, you'll find RIPM Jazz or Music Magazine Archive very useful. Additionally, you may still want to consult Music Index and RILM.