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Online Music-Related Databases

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary database covering journals in all subjects, including music, theater and dance.
CONTENTS: citations, abstracts, text, images. COVERAGE: complete archive of 169 major research journals. DATES: varies. UPDATES: daily. VENDOR: JSTOR.
ERIC This link opens in a new window
Database that indexes scholarly and professional education journals.
CONTENTS: citations, abstracts. COVERAGE: 2200+ digests; 980+ journals. DATES: 1966+. UPDATES: monthly. VENDOR: EBSCO.
PsycINFO (now APA PsycINFO) This link opens in a new window
Database that indexes scholarly and professional journals in psychology and related disciplines
CONTENTS: citations, abstracts. COVERAGE: journals, dissertations, books, and reports. DATES: 1872+. UPDATES: quarterly. VENDOR: Ovid.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary database that indexes scholarly journals and magazines in all subjects, including popular and jazz music.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents

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Online Journals in Lovejoy Library (Search by Journal Title):

Journal Link (This quickly takes you to online articles and journals.)

TO FIND NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

Historical New York Times - ProQuest This link opens in a new window
A great source of music performance reviews and composer information.
CONTENTS: text, images. COVERAGE: full images of articles in the New York Times (called the New York Daily Times prior to 1858), including illustrations and advertisements. DATES: 1851-2009. UPDATES: annually. VENDOR: ProQuest.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents
U.S. Major Dailies
Provides access to current content and significant archives dating back to 1980 from five of the most respected U.S. national and regional newspapers: Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal.

Selected Newspaper Databases:

Newspaper Source (includes St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Chicago Tribune articles)

Useful Newspaper websites:

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Belleville News Democrat

Full-Text Articles

Some of the databases on this page, including Academic Search Complete, will provide links to full-text articles. Look for a link that says . Click on this link to be guided to the full-text article if available.

Locate a Journal

Use this PDF handout to learn how to locate an article from its citation.

Locating Journals Handout

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Identifying Scholarly Journals
Use this PDF handout to determine whether or not an article is scholarly.
Online Journal Search by Title
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