Music Studies

Includes Grove Music Online, the Oxford Dictionary of Music, and the Oxford Companion to Music.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, a comprehensive, ongoing guide to publications on music from all over the world, is an indispensable tool for scholars, students, librarians, performers, teachers, and music lovers. It provides broad yet detailed coverage and facilitates both focused research and browsing for readers of all levels. Our database currently contains over 375,000 entries, with abstracts.

The Music Index, produced by Harmonie Park Press, is the single most comprehensive annual subject-author guide to music literature. Published since 1949, The Music Index contains surveyed data from more than 725 international music periodicals from over 40 countries in 23 languages. Covering all styles and genres of music, The Music Index duly cites book reviews, obituaries, new periodicals, and news and articles about music, musicians, and the music industry.

This multi-disciplinary database provides access to full-text articles from popular magazines and scholarly journals (including peer-reviewed) journals. Includes topics in social sciences, humanities, science, education, and most areas of academic study.

JSTOR is an independent not-for-profit organization which provides an electronic archive to specific scholarly journals. There is typically a gap from 1 to 5 years between the issues being published and the content becoming available in JSTOR. Artstor images also included.

Project Muse offers some 600 journal titles from 260 scholarly publishers including from the Johns Hopkins University Presss which began this project in 1995. The journals included in this database are in the areas of the humanities, social sciences and the arts.

Covers all aspects of the humanities, with worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought. Includes full text for nearly 1,240 journals.

Search for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad subject areas. Links to Sac State journals when Library Links under Scholar’s Settings are set to Sacramento State. Coverage varies.