Research Guides: Music in the US II: Looking for specific books and articles

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Frequently Used Resources

Academic Search Complete
A general periodical index that includes music and interdisciplinary topics among many others.
Chicago Manual of Style ONLINE
Dissertations and Theses
Google Scholar with FSU full-text links
Google Scholar can be a useful searching tool, particularly when it checks against the electronic full text holdings at FSU. This link requires you to log in with your FSU e-mail information-- but it's worth it!
Interlibrary Loan
Interlibrary Loan (ILL) is a service where a student, faculty, or staff of Florida State University may obtain books or obtain photocopies of articles from other institutions.
JStor
Main Campus printing plus print drivers
Download drivers to your computer; you can then send a print job to a campus printer and release it/print it on campus!
Music Index Online
Indexes major music periodicals from 1970 to the present.
Oxford Bibliographies
Great resource to target the top readings and resources on specific topics.
Oxford Handbooks Online
Choose "Music"
Oxford Music Online
Great first stop for composer, genre, period, instrument information and more. Article bibliographies get you to the next step in your research. Includes Grove Music and other relevant titles.
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Contains Grove Music and more.
Purdue Online Writing Lab: Chicago Manual Style
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
The main scholarly index to articles about music.

Oxford Reference (5 concurrent user limit) This link opens in a new window
includes Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd ed., Grove Opera, and more
Please note: Oxford Reference only allows access for 5 FSU users at one time. If you are being asked for a username and password, please try to access the database later.

Subjects:
Archaeology
Art & Architecture
Bilingual dictionaries
Classical studies
Encyclopedias
English Dictionaries and Thesauri
History
Language reference
Law
Linguistics
Literature
Media studies
Medicine and health
Music
Names studies
Performing arts
Philosophy
Quotations
Religion
Science and technology
Social sciences
Society and culture

Resource URL: http://www.oxfordreference.com/
Abbreviation: oxfordref
Vendor: Oxford University Press
Subjects: *General / Multi-Subject
Type: Encyclopedias & Dictionaries
Oxford Scholarship Online This link opens in a new window
includes music titles
Subjects with full text:
Philosophy
Law
Religion
Political Science
Economics and Finance
Psychology

Tutorials:
Take a Tour (PowerPoint, PDF, and video available)

Resource URL: https://academic.oup.com/pages/oxford-scholarship-online
Abbreviation: oso
Vendor: Oxford University Press
Subjects: *General / Multi-Subject
Type: E-Book Collections, Indexes / Catalogs

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Books, articles, and more

Bibliographies and encyclopedias are wonderful starting points, but new research is published every day. Searching the library catalog and the article indexes (such as RILM) will uncover this new research.

Finding Journal Articles

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
A great first stop for articles on classical music topics.
RILM indexes journal articles, books, conference proceedings, and reviews, primarily in the areas of musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory, and analysis. Its coverage is international in scope, and it includes citations for many foreign language materials. RILM's coverage extends from 1966 through the present

How can you find more journal articles on your topic than what is listed in the Grove bibliographies? Search these resources for citations, and click on the "Find it @FSU" icon or text to see if an electronic copy is available. These resources are great for articles published in the 19th-21st centuries.

Music Index Online
Online indexing from 1970 to the present.
RIPM Retrospective Guide to Music Literature
RIPM primarily indexes 19th century music periodicals, but is including more 20th century content each update.
Performing Arts Periodicals Database
Performing Arts Periodicals Database draws its current content from more than 130 international performing arts periodicals from 9 countries, and also indexes feature performing arts articles and obituaries appearing in The New York Times and The Washington Post. Indexing 1998 - present (plus 89,464 retrospective citations from 46 periodicals, dating back to 1864)
Readers' Guide Retrospective
Need to find reviews prior to the 1970s? Wonder what was written about a composer/performer, etc. in the 1940s? Try the Readers' Guide Retrospective.
JSTOR
Founded in 1995, JSTOR is a non-profit, interdisciplinary, scholarly archive. It features complete runs of scholarly journals, with articles digitized into pdfs. JSTOR currently contains 57 music journals, including Cambridge Opera Journal, Journal of the American Musicological Society (JAMS), Early Music, Music Educators' Journal, and Perspectives of New Music.
New York Times (including retrospective)
The New York Times is considered one of the "papers of record" in the US. An important resource for performance documentation, reviews, obituaries, and more.