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Guide to Research in Music

Music Research: Ten Tips
Use these ten tips for conducting research on music at Tredway Library. 

Theatre and Performance Research Guide
Start here for help browsing and searching for research materials in theatre. 

Art Abstracts
This database provides comprehensive indexing and abstracts for 377 leading international publications pertaining to a variety of art types. This bibliographic database indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.

Arts & Humanities Search
Indexes articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters, and reviews in more than 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals.

ARTstor
ARTstor is a non-profit digital library
with a collection of approximately 500,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's software tools enable viewing and analyzing images through zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline.

Augustana Music Collection Holdings
A database of the Augustana College Music Department collection of recordings on CD and vinyl.

Grove Art Online
Grove Art Online presents the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (published in 1996), updated and fully-indexed, searchable and browsable, with over 45,000 articles and more than 40,000 links to important art images in galleries and museums around the world.

Grove Music Online (2nd Edition)
The standard and most comprehensive music encyclopedia in an electronic form. Covered subjects include music history, theory and practice, terminology, and biography among others. Non-Western and popular music are covered as well.

Humanities Abstracts
Includes articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, reviews of plays, operas, ballets, dance, musicals, movies, and television and radio programs from more than 300 publications. Indexing dates back to 1984, and abstracts start in 1994.

JSTOR Journal Archive
Stores hundreds of scholarly journals in full-text format, including many social science journals.  Journals can be searched by title or subject, individually or in groups.  For each journal, articles from the first volume through to two to five years before today’s date are available.  Here's why.

LexisNexis Academic Universe
LexisNexis includes articles in full text from over 350 newspapers from around the world, including the New York Times back to 1980, as well as from magazines and journals, such as The New Yorker and Newsweek. Search for book reviews and articles on writers and trends in the literary world. (Select "Book, Movie, Music, Play and Video Reviews" from the "Select Sources" pull-down menu in the News search tab.) LexisNexis also includes publications in other languages.

Project MUSE
250 full text journals published by John Hopkins University in the arts, humanities, social sciences and mathematics.

RILA
Though it covers a relatively short period of published literature, 1975-1989, this is still a powerful art history resource. RILA indexes books, articles, conference proceedings, collected works, dissertations, exhibit catalogs, and museum publications on Western art from the 4th century on.  The database contains nearly 135,000 records covering both English language and Foreign language sources.

RILM Abstracts
An international bibliography of scholarly writings on music as well as music-related disciplines. Dating from 1967 through the present, this database offers indexing of sources published in over 140 languages.

Saskia Digital Art Images
This collection contains 30,000 digital images of paintings, sculpture and architecture, including images from many important collections: the Prado, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Uffizi, and the Louvre as well as archaeological sites in Greece, Italy, Turkey and Egypt. The images are displayed in both high resolution and thumbnail format. Additionally, the descriptive data about the images includes references to the occurrences of these images in 19 major art history texts. Access to Saskia is provided by the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI). More information about the Saskia collection may be found at http://www.saskia.com/

 


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