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Music Resources

For specialized research needs contact
George Thompsonghthompson@csuchico.edu ) ,
subject librarian for Music.


MultiSearch Articles & Databases Books reference websites guides
Search one of the databases below to find articles on your topic.
Academic Search Premier provides full text for over 4,650 periodicals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education, etc.
JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. For complete lists of titles and collections, please refer to http://www.jstor.org/about/collection.list.html.
Music Index is a comprehensive subject-author guide to music periodical literature. The Music Index online coverage spans from 1976 to the present and contains surveyed data from 775 international music periodicals from over 40 countries, with English translations from 22 languages. Some backfile data from the period 1962-1975 is also included. Topics concerned with every aspect of the classical and popular world of music. Covering all styles and genres of music, The Music Index duly cites book reviews, obituaries, news periodicals, and news and articles about music, musicians, and the music industry.
Project MUSE offers access to the full text of scholarly articles from over 100 online journals covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others.
grovemusic.com offers a dynamic research tool combining the full text of the 29-volume print edition with the added benefit of sophisticated search capabilities, one-click cross-referencing, and an ever increasing network of web-links to musical sites around the world.
Classical Music Library is a multi-label database of classical music recordings for listening and learning. It includes vocal and choral music, chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera. Included with the recordings are identifying and reference information. The database includes more than 50,000 recordings from 30 different labels, and more than 1800 composers, 900 conductors, 5,000 artists and 1,200 ensembles. Additional files are regularly being added.
Art Index is a bibliographic database that indexes articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. In addition to articles, this database indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.The library also has the print edition of Art Index, 1929 - 1998. Call number: N1 .A435 (Index)
Research areas in LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe cover news,industry, and market news; legal news and research; company financial information; general medical topics ; accounting, auditing, and tax information; law reviews; case law; U.S. Code.
The MLA International Bibliography contains more than 1.7 million records for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics.