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Music in General DatabasesOverview and Searching
Tips for Finding Important Musical Content in
Non-Music Electronic Resources

• Presented by
• Darwin F. Scott
• Creative Arts Librarian
• Brandeis University
• Music Library Association
• The Society for American Music
• Joint Conference
• Pittsburgh, PA
• March 1, 2007
• http//people.brandeis.edu/dscott/mla/pitt-e-reso
  urces.htm

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NON-MUSIC ELECTRONIC RESOURCESWITH IMPORTANT
MUSICAL CONTENTTOPICAL LIST CRITERIA

• All resources tested for music content February
  27, 2007.
• Extent of music coverage varies from resource to
  resource and is generally highly selective.
• When searched with focused expectations, these
  resources can produce useful citations and data
  not found in the standard music resources.
• Omits aggregators (Academic Search Premier, etc.)
  and obvious general resources (Dissertation
  Abstracts, Encyclopædia Britannica Online, Web of
  Science, etc.).
• List based on resources accessible from Brandeis
  University.
• This is a subjective listnot intended to be
  comprehensive.

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NON-MUSIC ELECTRONIC RESOURCESWITH SIGNIFICANT
MUSIC CONTENTTOPICAL LIST

• African American Music
• Oxford African American Studies Center
• Central portal for several key reference sources
  on African Americans published by the Oxford
  University Press.
• American Music
• America History and Life (ABC-Clio)
• Indexes journals, books, and dissertations on
  U.S. and Canadian history and culture, 1964 to
  present.
• American National Biography (Oxford University
  Press)      
• Over 18,300 biographies, including the 17,435
  original biographies from the 1999 print edition.
  New biographies added and others revised three
  time per year including articles on recently
  deceased notables as well as figures from the
  past who were not subjects in the print edition.
• Americas Historical Newspapers (Readex Archive
  of Americana)
• Searches or browses early American newspapers
  including titles from all 50 present states.
  Includes Early American Newspapers, Series I
  (16901876), Early American Newspapers, Series II
  (17581900), and Early American Newspapers,
  Series III (18291922).
• Early American Imprints, Series I Evans,
  16391800 (Readex Archive of America)  
• Searches or browses the books, pamphlets,
  broadsides, and other imprints listed in the
  bibliography by Charles Evans.

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NON-MUSIC ELECTRONIC RESOURCESWITH SIGNIFICANT
MUSIC CONTENTTOPICAL LIST

• Early American Imprints, Series II
  Shaw-Shoemaker, 18011819 (Readex Archive of
  America)        
• Search or browse the books, pamphlets, broadsides
  and other imprints listed in the distinguished
  bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H.
  Shoemaker.
• Arabic / Islamic Music
• Index Islamicus (CSA)
• Bibliography of almost 100 years of publications
  in European languages on all aspects of Islam and
  the Muslim world, including history, cultures,
  societies, languages, and literatures.
• Asian Music
• Bibliography of Asian Studies
• Indexes western-language monographs, articles,
  and book chapters on the social sciences and
  humanities pertaining to all parts of Asia, 1971
  to present.
• British Composers and Musicians
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online
  (ODNBO)
• Full text of the 60-volume Oxford Dictionary of
  National Biography. Contains illustrated
  biographies of people who were born or have lived
  in the United Kingdom and who have made a lasting
  impression or significant contribution to the
  history of the British Isles. Three updates per
  year.

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NON-MUSIC ELECTRONIC RESOURCESWITH IMPORTANT
MUSICAL CONTENTTOPICAL LIST

• Eastern European Music
• American Bibliography of Slavic and East European
  Studies Online (EBSCOhost)
• Indexes articles, books, book reviews,
  dissertations, and selected government
  publications on East-Central Europe and the
  former Soviet Union published in the United
  States and Canada, 1990-present.
• Early European Printed Music and Librettos
• Early English Books Online (EEBO)
  (Chadwyck-Healey)
• Digital facsimile page images of virtually every
  work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales
  and British North America from 1473 to 1700.
• Eighteenth-Century Collection Online (ECCO)
  (Thomson Gale)
• The digital edition of "The Eighteenth Century"
  microfilm collection, offering full-text
  searching and access to nearly 150,000
  English-language titles and editions published
  between 1701 and 1800.
• Ethnomusicology / World Music
• Anthropology Plus (Eurekamoving soon to OCLC
  FirstSearch)
• Indexes articles on all anthropological topics.
  Combines Anthropological Literature from Harvard
  University and Anthropological Index, Royal
  Anthropological Institute from the UK, 19th
  century to present.

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NON-MUSIC ELECTRONIC RESOURCESWITH IMPORTANT
MUSICAL CONTENTTOPICAL LIST

• European Music
• Historical Abstracts (ABC-Clio)
• Indexes journals, books, and dissertations on
  European and world history, excluding the United
  States and Canada, 1955 to present.
• Greek and Roman Music
• Lannée philologique
• Indexes publications covering all aspects of
  Greco-Roman antiquity.
• Gay and Lesbian Music
• LGBT Life with Full Text (EBSCOhost)
• Indexes literature regarding lesbian, gay,
  bisexual, and transgender issues.
• Jewish Music
• Encyclopaedia Judaica (Gale Virtual Reference
  Library)
• Full text of the 2007 2nd editionbut coverage of
  major musical figures is very disappointing (too
  brief and biographies very out of date)
• Index to Jewish Periodicals (EBSCOhost)
• Indexes English-language articles on Jewish
  history, activity and thought, 1988 to present.

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NON-MUSIC ELECTRONIC RESOURCESWITH IMPORTANT
MUSICAL CONTENTTOPICAL LIST

• Latin American Music
• Handbook of Latin American Studies Online
• Selective annotated bibliography of scholarly
  works on Latin America in the humanities and
  social sciences from the Library of Congress.
  Includes books, journal articles, book chapters,
  conference papers, and electronic resources.
  1935-present, including contents of future print
  volumes.
• Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI)
• Indexes articles on Central and South America,
  Mexico, the Caribbean and Latinos in the United
  States, 1970 to present.
• Music Aesthetics and Philosophy
• Philosophers Index
• Indexes journals and some books in English,
  French, Spanish, German and Italian covering
  scholarly research in fifteen fields of
  philosophy, 1940 to present.
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• A dynamic reference work with refereed entries
  written by volunteers, covering important topics,
  history, and major figures in the field of
  philosophy.

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NON-MUSIC ELECTRONIC RESOURCESWITH IMPORTANT
MUSICAL CONTENTTOPICAL LIST

• Music and Society /Sociology of Music
• Social Sciences Abstracts (FirstSearch)
• Indexes and abstracts articles in over 550
  international, English-language social science
  journals, 1983 to present.
• SocINDEX with Full Text (EBSCOhost)
• Indexes and abstracts journal articles in
  sociology, with full text for a select number of
  titles, 1895 to present (basically Sociological
  Abstracts with full text)
• Music and Text
• MLA Bibliography
• Indexes journals, monographs, working papers and
  proceedings in literature, language, linguistics,
  and folklore, 1963 to present.
• Music Cognition
• CogNet
• Provides an electronic community for the
  cognitive and brain sciences developed by MIT,
  including a searchable full-text library, a
  calendar of events, job listings, discussion
  groups, and more.

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NON-MUSIC ELECTRONIC RESOURCESWITH IMPORTANT
MUSICAL CONTENTTOPICAL LIST

• Music in Newspapers (Reviews, Feature Articles,
  etc.)
• LexisNexis Academic
• Provides full-text news from major and regional
  newspapers.
• New York Times Historical Archive
• Includes full-text and full-image issues of the
  New York Daily Times, 1851-1857 and the New York
  Times, 1857-2003.
• The most comprehensive example of the major
  newspaper archives produced by ProQuest. (Others
  include the Washington Post,
• Music in Special Collections
• ArchiveGrid
• Indexes and provides access to over 700,000
  collection records and nearly 30,000 collection
  finding guides for archival resources.
• National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
  (NUCMC)
• Indexes close to 500,000 records of archival and
  manuscript collections in research libraries,
  museums, state archives, and historical societies
  throughout North America.

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NON-MUSIC ELECTRONIC RESOURCESWITH IMPORTANT
MUSICAL CONTENTTOPICAL LIST

• Music Librarianship
• Library Literature and Information Science
• Indexes materials on libraries and librarianship,
  1984 to present.
• Library, Information Science, and Technology
  Abstracts
• Includes librarianship, classification,
  cataloging, bibliometrics, online information
  retrieval, information management and more.
  Mid-1960s to present.
• Music in 19th-Century Periodicals / 19th-Century
  Music
• Nineteenth Century Masterfile
• Indexes periodicals, books, newspapers,
  government documents, scientific papers, and
  portraits produced during the nineteenth century.
• Music Psychology
• PsycARTICLES
• Full-text articles from 49 journals published by
  the American Psychological Association and allied
  organizations from 1987 to the present. Journals
  included in this database are indexed in
  PsychoINFO.
• PsycINFO
• Indexes journal literature, books, dissertations
  and reports in psychology, 1887 to present.

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NON-MUSIC ELECTRONIC RESOURCESWITH IMPORTANT
MUSICAL CONTENTTOPICAL LIST

• Research Funding and Grants
• COS Funding Opportunities
• Indexes international funding information for
  every area of research and scholarly activity,
  includes daily updates from governmental sources,
  foundations, professional societies, associations
  and corporations.
• Women and Music
• Contemporary Womens Issues
• Indexes and provides full text to 600 journals,
  newsletters and reports relating to women's
  studies, 1992 to present.
• Womens Studies International
• Indexes journal literature, books, and mixed
  media from ten women's studies databases, 1972 to
  present.

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SAMPLE RESOURCES

• LexisNexis AcademicNews
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• American National Biography
• America History and Life / Historical Abstracts
• Sociological Abstracts

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LexisNexis AcademicNews

• Among its many features, offers full-text of 350
  newspapers and 300 magazines and journals from
  the U.S. and around the worldmany the same day
  of publication as the initiated search.
• Includes extensive archivesfor example
• Boston Globe, 1994
• New York Times, 1980
• Washington Post, 1970
• Billboard, 1991
• Variety, 1993
• Extremely useful for
• locating performance reviews
• information on contemporary composers
• feature articles on performers
• popular culture and music / popular music
• world music

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LexisNexis Academic News Homepage
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LexisNexis Academic News My Formula for
Searching Concert Reviews, Music and Popular
Culture, World Music, etc.
Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5

• How To Fill In The Boxes
• Step One News category Arts Sports News (but
  for Obituaries, use General News)
• Step Two Select a news source Entertainment
  news or Book, movie, music, play reviews
• Step Three Enter search terms select Full Text
  (rather than Headline, Lead Paragraph, etc.)
• Use and between search words, such as music and
  globalization or klezmer and jazz or metropolitan
  and parsifal.
• Put quotes around expressions, such as "popular
  music" or "united states" combine these as
  "popular music" and "united states".
• Wild cards for each letter ? for
  indeterminate number of letters.
• Step Four Select the appropriate date range
  (the default Previous six months is usually too
  narrow)
• Step Five (optional) Limit the publication (New
  York Times, Boston Globe, etc.) enter
  automatically from Source List link next to Step
  Two box. Select as many sources as you wish.

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LexisNexis Academic News Search on Peru Negro,
Sorted by Date
Date Sort Concert listings and brief mentions
interfile with more substantive articles and
reviews.
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LexisNexis Academic News Search on Peru Negro,
Sorted by Relevance
Relevance Sort More substantive articles tend
to fall early in the list.
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LexisNexis Academic News Peru Negro Article in
the Miami New Times
Search within text
E-mail option
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LexisNexis Academic News Joyce Hatto Search
(General News in Major Papers)
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LexisNexis Academic News Joyce Hatto Search
(General News in Major Papers) Sic transit gloria
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Home
Page
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Britten
ArticleOpening
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Britten
ArticleEnding(Sources, Archives, Likenesses,
Wealth at Death)
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography DNB
Archive Link1986 DNB Article by Donald Mitchell
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Britten
ArticleNational Register of Archives Link
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Britten
ArticleNational Portrait Gallery Link
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National Portrait Gallery Pears and Britten
Portrait
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Britten
ArticleRoyal Historical Society Bibliography Link
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Royal Historical Society Bibliography Link to
Britten Article by Sophie Aymès
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Following the Link to the Article by Sophie
Aymèsin La revue LISA, 42 (2006)
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Following the Link to the Article by Sophie Aymès
in La revue LISA, 42 (2006)Illustrations at End
of Article
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American National Biography Advanced Search
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American National Biography Music Occupations
and Realms of Renown Performing Arts
Performing Arts
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American National BiographyAndrews Sisters
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American National BiographyAndrews Sisters
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American National BiographyAndrews Sisters,
continued
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America History and Life and Historical
Abstracts

• ABC-Clio products.
• Now can be searched separately or jointly.
• America History and Life provides bibliographic
  references with abstracts to the history of the
  United States and Canada from prehistory to the
  present.
• Historical Abstracts covers the rest of the
  world from 1450 to the presentbut completeness
  of world coverage depends upon the journals
  indexed.
• Both cite articles dating back to 1954.
• Reasonably up to dateresults of 2/27/07 search
  (very recent citations can lack abstracts)
• AHL 8 citations from 2007 journals, 1,980 from
  2006 journals
• HA 2 citations from 2007 journals, 3,567 from
  2006 journals
• Each product covers 2,000 journals published
  worldwide.
• In addition to covering all key English-language
  historical journals, both products include
  selected historical journals from major
  countries, state and local history journals, and
  a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in
  the social sciences and humanities of special
  interest to researchers and students of history.
• Includes citations for dissertations and book and
  media reviews.

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America History and Life and Historical
AbstractsSearching Tips

• Use quotation marks around phrases.
• Boolean AND is default between search words.
• Truncation multiple letters ? single
  letter.
• Note Exactly the opposite of LexisNexis!! Lesson
  here always check the truncation symbols for
  each product there is little consistency across
  databases.
• Time period Entries are indexed by decades and
  centuries only.

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America History and Life Homepage
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Historical Abstracts Homepage
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Historical Abstracts and America History
LifeCombined Search Homepage
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America History and Life Mozart and Franklin
Search
Brandeis SFX link
For comparison, latest hits on Mozart and
Franklin in RILM are two dissertations, 1999 (in
German) and 1996 (in English).
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America History and Life Mozart and Franklin
SearchFollowing the SFX Link to PsycARTICLES
Clicking leads to
s
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America History and Life Mozart and Franklin
Search Full Text of Article via PsycARTICLES
(EBSCOhost)
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America History and Life Hip-Hop / Rap Music
Search
Keyword Search (hip-hop or hiphop or rap
music) and music
Eliminated books from search.
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America History and Life Hip-Hop / Rap Music
SearchUnexpanded Records
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America History and Life Hip-Hop / Rap Music
Search Results First 8 of 54, with Sample
Subjects from Full Records (Old Interface)
Subject Rap music.Popular Culture.Political
Commentary.Music.Internationalism.Hip-hop.
Subject California (Los Angeles).Music.Ethnic
identity.Akwid (musical group).Mexican
Americans.
Subject Rap music.Music.Social networks.
Subject Psychoanalysis.Death and
Dying.Music.Rap music.Real (term).Hip-hop.Sha
kur, Tupac.
Subject Religion.Rap music.Music.Blacks.Black
Nationalism.
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Social Science Abstracts, Sociological
Abstracts, and SocINDEX with Full Text Can Be
Rich Resources for Interdisciplinary Musical
Topics

• Popular culture
• Popular music and society
• Mass media
• Ethnic issues
• Women and music
• Entertainment industry

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Sociological Abstracts Homepage
Default is Relevance you may want to change to
Date (descending order)
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Sociological Abstracts Rap Music Search
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Sociological Abstracts Rap Music Search
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Sociological Abstracts Rap Music Search
Sample Record
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