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Electronic Journals

Music Resources

Music Education

• Education Index - This paper index (Suzzallo Index/Abstract Z5813 .E23 ) indexes journal articles in the field of education. Coverage begins in 1929 so is particularly useful for historic information.
  
  ERIC* (Educational Resources Information Center) - indexes and abstracts articles from over 750 professional journals and a variety of other resources in the field of education such as conference papers, reports, curriculum guides, etc. Coverage includes items from 1966 to the present. This large database is a rich resource for research in music education.

  Entries in the database are designated into the two categories of materials ,journals and other documents. They are designated in the first displayed field (AN) by EJ (journals) or ED (other documents) followed by a specific number. Most of the ED items are available in the Microfilms/Newspapers Library on microfiche. You will need the ED number to find documents in the microfiche collection.

• Music Article Guide - A paper index (Music Reference - ML118 .M87 ) Indexes periodical articles in music, "geared exclusively to the special needs of school and college music educators". The Guide indexes over 200 periodicals from the United States, primarily regional journals not indexed elsewhere. Coverage is from 1966-1997.
  
  
• Music Education Resource Base (MERB/CMI) - "is a bibliographic database of more than 30,000 resources in music and music education from 32 Canadian and International journals and other sources covering the period 1956 through the present. The journals are fully indexed by title, author, and subject." Does not include abstracts, but does include some items not found in other resources.
  
  
• Music Education Search System - Includes an index to a small set of music education periodicals and the Poland-Cady Abstract collection The Poland-Cady Abstract collection contains approximately 4,500 abstracts of research in music prior to 1965. The collection was developed by Professors William Poland and Henry Cady at The Ohio State University in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
  
  
• PsychInfo* - Indexes and abstracts journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Coverage includes items from 1887 to the present.
  
  

Music Therapy

• CAIRSS - Bibliographic database of music research literature in music education, music psychology, music therapy, and music medicine. The focus of the primary journals lean toward music therapy and psychology and includes several journals not indexed in other resources.
  
  
• PsychInfo* - Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.
  
  
• Medline* - Covers more than 3,900 journals in biomedicine, including citations published in Index medicus, International nursing index, and Index to dental literature, from 1966 to the present.
  
  
• Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature* - Online version provides coverage of the literature in nursing and 17 allied health disciplines from 1982-. Over 700 journals are regularly indexed. Updated monthly.
  
  

• Arts and Humanities Citation Index* - 1990-present. A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities, with cited references but not abstracts. Indexes 1,100 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, plus individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.
  
  
• Expanded Academic Index* - Provides indexing and abstracting for approximately 1,500 scholarly and general interest periodicals, covering all major fields of study in the humanities, social sciences, and science and technology.
  
  
• NewsBank infoweb* - This newspaper database provides coverage of major newspapers, including the New York Times, Washington post, Chicago Tribune, Washington state newspapers and more.
  
  
• Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)* - Indexing and full text for a basic collection of general-interest, humanities, social science and science periodicals and newspapers; 1986 to present. Divided into Newspapers and periodicals sections.
  
  
• Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature. (Suzzallo Reference or Odegaard Reference A I3 R48) indexes periodical literature beginning in 1901. This resource is especially useful for bridging the gap between materials covered in RIPM and RILM after 1900 and before the 1960s.