Simpson Library: Music: Find Articles & Databases

Oxford Music Online
Also known as Grove Music Online
Includes the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, and The Grove Dictionary of American Music. Also provides access to The Oxford Companion to Music and The Oxford Dictionary of Music.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
An international index to writings on music. Includes many items that are not available via the main library search box.
Met Opera on Demand
Provides streaming access to over 500 full-length Metropolitan Opera performances.

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Other Useful Databases

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
Articles in many disciplines, many from scholarly journals; extensive full text.
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection
Provides digital access to more than 6,500 American magazines and journals published between 1691 and 1877. (Because all issues of bound volumes were digitized, some periodicals beyond 1877 are included.)
American Periodicals Series Online
1741-1940
Provides digitized images of more than 1,000 American magazines, journals, and newspapers.
Gale Biography and Genealogy Master Index
An index to millions of biographical sketches and articles in more than 3,000 reference books. Covers living and deceased persons throughout the world.
Dissertations & Theses Global (ProQuest)
The world's most comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses.
Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective (EBSCO)
Content from 1907-1984
Offers a broad range of subject coverage in the humanities and social sciences with high-quality indexing of more than 1,300,000 articles in nearly 1,100 periodicals, dating as far back as 1907, as well as citations of over 240,000 book reviews
Humanities Full Text (EBSCO)
Includes many of the most important academic journals in the humanities. Includes articles discussing gender and sexuality in relation to history, language, literature, religion, the arts, and more.
Humanities International Complete (EBSCO)
Includes articles discussing gender and sexuality in relation to history, language, literature, religion, the arts, and more.
JSTOR
A full-text collection of scholarly journals in a wide variety of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. To focus your search, use the Advanced Search and the "narrow by discipline" and "language" limiters.
Project MUSE
Provides online access to more than 400 scholarly journals in the humanities, arts, and social sciences.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Searches historical issues of the New York Times (1851 - 2020), The Washington Post (1877 - 2007), and the Los Angeles Times (1881 - 2015).

Google Scholar

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You are probably going to have to connect to the UMW Library databases.

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Connecting your Google Scholar to UMW Library Databases

Finding Journals

Find an article and wonder if Simpson Library has access to the journal?

Example:

Ready, D. D. (2010). Socioeconomic disadvantage, school attendance, and early cognitive development: The differential effects of school exposure. Sociology of Education, 83(4), 271-286.

Sociology of Education is the title of the journal in which this article was published. This article is published in Volume 83, Issue 4, from 2010.

You need to use the library's Journal Search and type in the title of the journal (Sociology of Education), not the title of the article.

Once you find the journal, you will need to see if which database includes the volume / year of the article you want to find.