Other Databases to Try
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Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.
Full-text and abstract/index: 1975-present
Concurrent Users: unlimited
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Academic OneFile
The premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. Extensive coverage of the sciences, technology, medicine, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects - authoritative and comprehensive. Millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions; updated daily.
Coverage Dates: 1980 - present -
Education Research Complete
Education Research Complete covers all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,500 journals, as well as full text for more than 750 journals, and includes full text for more than 100 books and monographs, and for numerous education-related conference papers.
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ERIC (EBSCOhost)
Index to research articles, government and independent reports and conference papers covering all areas of education at all levels.
1966-present. Includes thesaurus searching, links to the OSU Libraries Online Catalog and full text document service (EDRS), where applicable (via the Locate Document button).
1966-present. Links are provided for full text articles and documents.
1966-present. Index and Abstracts plus links to the EDRS collection.
Concurrent Users: unlimited
Coverage Dates: 1966 - present
Recommended Databases
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Oxford Music Online
Oxford Music Online (formerly Grove Music Online) is a gateway that offers users the ability to access and cross-search the vast resources of Oxford's music reference in one location, including the full-text of several reference books.
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MLA International Bibliography
MLA International Bibliography is an index of journal articles, books and dissertations in the Humanities. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers. Coverage is international and subjects include music. Coverage is from 1926-present.
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Fine Arts and Music Collection
Provides more than 150 full-text magazines and journals that are covered in indices such as the Wilson Art Index and RILM, this collection will provide support for research in areas such as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.
Coverage Dates: 1980 - present -
Project Muse
Launched in 1995 by the Johns Hopkins University Press, Project MUSE is an interdisciplinary collection of high quality, peer reviewed journals.
Concurrent Users: unlimited
Coverage Dates: - Varies by journal
Free Music Databases
The following can be accessed by anyone. You don't need to be an OSU affiliate to use:
- Music Treasures Consortium http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/treasures/treasures-home.html
Provides online access to the world's most valued music manuscripts and print materials, held at the most renowned music archives. Researchers can search or browse materials, access metadata about each item, and view digital images of the treasure via each custodial archive's Web site. (hosted by the Library of Congress) - The Aria database http://www.aria-database.com/
Offers a main index and browse features. Also searchable by aria, composer, opera, role, range, language, voice parts, and accompanying materials, if available (e.g., translations, MIDIs). Entries also include the dramatic setting of the aria, synopsis, sound files if available, aria text, a link to Amazon.com to locate recordings of operas, and a link suggesting sources for obtaining the score. Most of the operas included in this database are mainstream. - Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature http://www.music.indiana.edu/chmtl/
Combines electronic access to several databases of interest including Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology-Online (http://www.music.indiana.edu/ddm/index.html), and Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum (http://www.music.indiana.edu/tml/start.html), a comprehensive database of music theory treatises. - ACE https://www.ascap.com/ace-title-search/index.aspx
One service on the ASCAP site is ACE, a database of song titles licensed by ASCAP in the United States. For each title, you can find the names of the songwriters and the names, contact persons, addresses and, in most cases, phone numbers of publishers to contact if you want to use the work. For most of the titles, you'll find some of the artists who have made a commercial recording.
