Music Encyclopedias
- Grove Music Online This link opens in a new window Online music encyclopedia, offering comprehensive coverage of music, musicians, music-making, and music scholarship.
Grove Music Online (instruction videos)
Music Research Databases
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index (via Web of Science) This link opens in a new window 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.
- Musical America This link opens in a new window Contains international industry news, all contact information and articles.
- 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.
- 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.
- Répertoire International d'Iconographie Musicale (RIdIM) International association for the recording and development of music and dance performances in the field of visual arts and crafts.
- 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 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)
- 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
- RISM: Repertoire International des Sources Musicales This link opens in a new window 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.
Databases Good for All Subjects
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window Multidisciplinary - good for nearly all subjects. Scholarly and trade journals, popular magazines, newspapers, conference proceedings, book reviews, and more.
- OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center ( EJC) This link opens in a new window Scholarly journals in humanities, social sciences,and natural sciences, as well as engineering.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window 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.
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I This link opens in a new window Citations and abstracts for dissertations and theses on all subjects from around the world. Previews and full text available for some titles.
- Readers' Guide Retrospective (1890-1982) This link opens in a new window Indexing of articles in historical American popular magazines of all types.
- Web of Science This link opens in a new window 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.