Widely Accessed NonMusic Databases with Important Music Content Overview and Searching Tips

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Widely Accessed Non-Music Databases with
Important Music ContentOverview and Searching
Tips

• Presented by
• Darwin F. Scott
• Creative Arts Librarian, Brandeis University
• for the
• New England Music Library (NEMLA)
• Spring Meeting
• at NELINET (Southborough, MA)
• April 29, 2005

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KEY NON-MUSIC ELECTRONIC RESOURCESWITH
SIGNIFICANT MUSIC CONTENTFive Examples

• LexisNexis Academic
• America History and Life
• Historical Abstracts
• Sociological Abstracts
• American National Biography

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WHY?

• Can be more current than music citation sources.
• Journals not indexed in music citation sources.
• Interdisciplinary.
• Newspaper coverage.
• Way to get around electronic music resources you
  dont have.

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LexisNexis Academic

• 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
• 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 Formula for
Searching Concert Reviews, Music and Popular
Culture, World Music, etc.
Tips on how to fill in the boxes Step One
News category Arts Sports 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 as
"popular music" and "united states". Wild cards
for each letter ? for indeterminate number of
letters. Step Four Select the appropriate
date range (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.
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LexisNexis Academic News Search for Peru Negro
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
Step One News category Arts Sports News
Step Two Select a news source Entertainment
news or Book, move, music, play reviews Step
Three Enter search terms peru negro
select Full Text Step Four Select the
appropriate date range Previous five years Step
Five (optional) Limit the publication left
blank
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LexisNexis Academic News Search on Peru Negro,
Sorted by Date
Listings interfile with more substantive
articles and reviews.
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LexisNexis Academic News Search on Peru Negro,
Sorted by Relevance
More substantive articles tend to fall at the top
of the list.
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LexisNexis Academic News Peru Negro Article in
the Miami New Times
E-mail option
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America History and Life

• ABC-Clio product.
• Provides bibliographic references with abstracts
  to the history of the United States and Canada
  from prehistory to the present.
• Articles date back to 1954.
• Reasonably up to date April 28 search showed 557
  citations to 2005 publications.
• Covers 2,000 journals published worldwide.
• In addition to covering all key English-language
  historical journals, includes 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.
• Includes citations for dissertations and book and
  media reviews.

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America History and LifeA Few Searching Tips

• Use quotation marks around phrases.
• Boolean AND is default between search words.
• Truncation multiple letters ? single
  letter. (Exactly the opposite of LexisNexis!
  Lesson here always check the truncation symbols
  for each product there is little consistency
  across databases.)

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America History and Life Homepage
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America History and Life Mozart and Franklin
Search
s
Brandeis SFX link
Latest hit on Mozart and Franklin in RILM is 1996!
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America History and Life Output Options
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America History and Life Mozart and Franklin
Search Following the SFX Link
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
Search Results First 8 of 54, with Sample
Subjects from Full Records
SubjectRap 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.
SubjectPsychoanalysis.Death and
Dying.Music.Rap music.Real (term).Hip-hop.Sha
kur, Tupac.
SubjectReligion.Rap music.Music.Blacks.Black
Nationalism.
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Historical Abstracts

• ABC-Clio product.
• The rest of the world equivalent of America
  History and Lifecovers 1450 to the presentbut
  completeness of world coverage controlled by the
  journals indexed.
• Published since 1954.
• Covers 2,000 key historical journals published
  worldwide as well as a targeted selection of
  hundreds of journals in the social sciences and
  humanities that are of special interest to
  researchers and students of history
• Also selected books and dissertations.

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Historical Abstracts Homepage
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Historical Abstracts User Options
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Historical Abstracts Search Limiters
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Historical Abstracts Search for Subject Jazz
and France
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Historical Abstracts French Jazz Search Results

Subject Popular Culture.Jazz.France (Paris).
Subject National Self-image.Jazz.France
(Paris).Debates.
Subject Jazz.Hot Club de France.France.Blacks.
Americans.
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Historical Abstracts Early Music 20042005
Search
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Historical Abstracts Early Music 2004-2005
Search
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Sociological Abstracts Some Music /
Interdisciplinary 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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American National Biography
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American National Biography Music Occupations
and Realms of Renown
     Comb Players                Cornetists   
             Fiddlers                Flugelhorn
Players                Flutists                G
uitarists                Harmonica
Players                Harpsichordists          
      Horn Players                Keyboard
Players                Oboists                Or
ganists                Percussionists           
     Pianists                Saxophonists       
         Sitar Players                Trombonists
                Trumpeters                Vibrah
arpists                Violinists               
 Violists             Types of Music and
Singing                Blues Musicians /
Singers                Cantors                Ch
anters                Concert Singers           
     Country Musicians / Singers                F
olk Musicians / Singers                Gospel
Musicians / Singers                Jazz
Musicians                Jazz Singers           
     Opera Singers                Popular
Singers                Ragtime
Musicians                Reggae
Musicians                Rhythm and Blues
Musicians / Singers                Rock
Musicians / Singers                Soul
Musicians / Singers                Western Swing
Musicians
Performing Arts
Radio and Television            Disc
Jockeys            Radio / Television
Engineers            Radio / Television
Personalities            Radio / Television
Producers / Directors            Radio /
Television Writers            Religious
Broadcasters         Theater and Live
Entertainment            Acrobats            Bur
lesque Performers            Circus
Performers            Clowns            Comedian
s            Costume Designers            Cowboy
s            Daredevils            Impersonators
            Magicians            Midgets       
     Mimes            Minstrel Show
Performers            Monologuists            Or
ators            Puppeteers            Rodeo
Performers            Sharpshooters            S
iamese Twins            Stage / Screen
Actors            Theatrical Designers          
  Theatrical Producers / Directors            Toa
stmasters            Vaudeville
Performers            Ventriloquists
Composite of 3 screens (single columns)
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American National BiographyAndrews Sisters
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American National BiographyAndrews Sisters,
continued
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OTHER NON-MUSIC ELECTRONIC RESOURCESWITH
SIGNIFICANT MUSIC CONTENTNote I have tested
all of these resources for music content
coverage varies, but if used with limited
expectations, the results can often be
surprising and retrieve materials not found in
the standard music resources.List is based on
what is available from Brandeis University.

• American Music (through 1876)
• Early American Newspapers, 16901876 (Readex)
• Asian Music
• Bibliography of Asian Studies
• Eastern European Music
• American Bibliography of Slavic and East European
  Studies
• Greek and Roman Music
• Lannée philologique

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OTHER NON-MUSIC ELECTRONIC RESOURCESWITH
SIGNIFICANT MUSIC CONTENT

• Jewish Music
• Index to Jewish Periodicals
• Latin American Music
• Handbook of Latin American Studies Online
• Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI)
• Music Aesthetics
• Philosophers Index
• Music and Medecine
• PubMed (Medline)
• Music and Society (Popular Culture)
• Social Science Abstracts
• Music Cognition
• CogNet (MIT Press)

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OTHER NON-MUSIC ELECTRONIC RESOURCESWITH
SIGNIFICANT MUSIC CONTENT

• Music Education
• Education Index
• Psychology of Music
• PsycINFO or PsycARTICLES
• Women and Music
• Contemporary Womens Issues
• Womens Studies International
• World Music / Ethnomusicology
• Anthropology Plus (Eureka combines
  Anthropological Index and Anthropological
  Literature)