HSS 202
General Information
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.
Article Databases
Academic Search Premier
- Use to find articles from magazines and journals, some dating back to the 1960s.
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
New York Times Historical
- Covers the New York Times from 1851-three years ago
America: History and Life
ABELL
- Indexes Playboy 1968-2004
- Jackson Library has a print index for 1968-1978
Journals
These are individual magazines and 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
Time 1923-present
No Depression archives- 1995-2008
If you have a particular newspaper, journal, or magazine in mind, you can search for it using Journal Finder.
- Search for books and music in Jackson and the Music Libraries, as well as videos in the Teaching and Learning Center.
- 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!.
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