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General Information

• Reference Librarians are here to help! Visit us, call us, email us, IM us or chat with us!
• Library hours
• Finding It! A Research Skills Tutorial : A self-paced tutorial in eight chapters. Covers the basics of research as well as how to avoid plagiarism, paraphrase correctly and cite your sources.

Background Information

Grove Music Online

• Grove Music Online is the online form of the definitive music dictionary
• Provides basic information on more well-known bands and artists.

Databases

International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text

• Includes indexing and abstracting of over 375 international music periodicals.
• Includes full text from about 26 scholarly music journals

RILM Music Abstracts

• The largest database of citations to music, covering over 3,000 journals in over 200 languages

Music Index

• Indexes more than 640 international music periodicals.

Academic Search Premier

• Use to find articles from magazines and journals
• Offers full text for over 1,200 academic journals on all subjects.
• Includes Rolling Stone magazine (Jackson Library has a print Rolling Stone index for 1967-1991)

Proquest Research Library

• Use to find articles in magazines and journals
• Offers full text for over 1,700 academic, social sciences, humanities, general science, and education journals.
• 1971-present

America: History and Life

ABELL

• Indexes Playboy 1968-2004?
• Jackson Library has a print index for 1968-1978

Film & Television Literature Index with Full-Text

• Indexes Playboy 1988-1994?

Journals

These are individual popular music journals that are not indexed by one of the sources above. You can usually do a keyword search within these titles. Ask Amy if you have questions.

Journal of Popular Music Studies 9/1/1997-present
Popular Music 1981-2001
Popular Music 2000-present
American Music 1983-2004

Library Catalog

• Search for books in Jackson and the Music Libraries.
• Use the search connector "and" to do a keyword search for more than one term

WorldCat

• Use this to find books that are available at libraries around the world.
• You can request these books through Interlibrary Loan, but remember that it takes 1-2 weeks to receive (less if it can be found at a library nearby)

Searching the Web

Search the Web
A selection of search engines and directories that can help you find the information you need.

Guidelines for Evaluating Web Resources
Suggestions for how to make sure the stuff you get off the web is quality material. From our online tutorial Finding It!.

Page Author: Amy Harris