Music/Dance Library - Music Research Databases
Indexes to music periodicals : Music-specific databases
- Music Index. Indexes most major music periodicals from 1976 to the present. To simultaneously search Music Index and RILM or other databases, select "Multiple Databases" in the drop-down menu and follow the instructions.
- RILM Abstracts of Music Literature. An index (with abstracts) of scholarly music journals, books, dissertations, and other literature. Circa 1950 to the present. To simultaneously search RILM and Music Index or other databases, select "Multiple Databases" in the drop-down menu and follow the instructions.
- International Index to Music Periodicals. Indexes most major music periodicals from 1996 to the present, and selectively indexes periodicals dating back to 1874. The full text is available — and searchable — of recent issues of some music journals.
- Bibliographie des Musikschrifttums online. An international and interactive bibliography of literature on music edited by the Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung Preußischer Kuturbesitz (State Institute of Music Research). Printed volumes — located on the Index Table in the main reading room (ML113 .B5) — cover the period 1950-1988 plus a few years in the 1930s. Publication was suspended during the Second World War.
- RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals. Indexes chiefly 19th-century music periodicals and has begun adding 20th-century periodicals up to 1950.
- JSTOR. Multidisciplinary full-text database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities, including about 30 important music journals. JSTOR is an electronic archive of older journal issues, giving researchers full text search access to all issues of these journals except the most recent issues.
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. Includes many major music journals, though fewer than the databases listed above. Offers cited reference searching, allowing researchers to locate journal articles which cite a specific work, or works by a particular author.
Library catalogs
- OSU Library Catalog. Books, scores, sound recordings, videos available at the Music/Dance Library and other OSU libraries.
- OhioLINK. A combined ("union") catalog of most Ohio college and university libraries. If an item is not available at OSU (not in our online catalog, checked out, etc.), search for it in this database and make an online request to have it sent here. The service is free, and most OhioLINK items arrive in three to five business days.
- OCLC WorldCat. If you cannot locate an item in our online catalog or in the OhioLINK catalog, search this union catalog of thousands of libraries around the world. Many items can be requested by interlibrary loan, and you can make the request on line. If you need help, ask any staff member for assistance.
- Additional library catalogs
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses. Contains citations for dissertations and theses done at U.S., Canadian and some foreign institutions. Free PDFs of all dissertations done since 1997.
- Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology. An international database of bibliographic records for completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in the fields of musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology, as well as in related musical, scientific, and humanistic disciplines. Contains approximately 13,000 records, including the contents of the earlier printed editions of Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology and supplements contributed by musicological centers throughout the world.
- Index to Theses A comprehensive listing of theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716. Full text available.
Online music reference works
Other noteworthy sites
- Neue Mozart Ausgabe (complete)
- RIdIM (International database of musical iconography)
- Hofmeister XIX — online searchable version of the Hofmeister Monatsberichte for the years 1829-1900
- British Library Integrated Catalog — The 62-volume catalog of printed music held by the British Library was published in book form in the 1980s. Its entries have been incorporated into the online Integrated Catalog.
Other online research tools
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