Finding Important Music-Related

Articles in Social Science Databases:

Effective Online Searching in an

Interdisciplinary World

Darwin F. ScottAssistant Director for Research and Instruction,

Creative Arts & HumanitiesLibrary and Technology Services

Brandeis University

Music Library AssociationAnnual Meeting

New Port, Rhode IslandFebruary 22, 2008

• All resources tested for music content as late as 2/21/08.

• Extent of significant music coverage varies from resource to resource and will be highly selective.

• With focused searching and limited expectations, these resources reveal important articles on music not found in the standard music resources.

• Study based on electronic resources accessible to the Brandeis University community.

• This is a selective and subjective evaluation not based on any scientific statistical analysis—a work in progress.

• Subject areas surveyed: Sociology, Psychology, Anthropology, and Business.

Parameters and Criteria for This Presentation

Resources:

SocINDEX with Fulltext (EBSCO)

Sociological Abstracts (H. W. Wilson via OCLC)

Sociology: Music and Society

• Popular culture and music • Gender and music

• Mass media and music • Music and society

• Ethnic issues and music • Entertainment industry

• Music and the environment

• Produced by EBSCO.

• Features more than 1,918,000 records with subject headings from a sociological thesaurus compiled by experts.

• Contains full text for 428 "core" coverage journals from 1908, and 163 "priority" coverage journals.

• Contains abstracts for 845+ "core" coverage journals dating from 1895, plus data mined from 670+ "priority" coverage journals and 2,800 "selective" coverage journals.

• Includes full text, abstracts, and indexing for select books, monographs, and conference papers.

• Most recent date of articles with music* search: March 2008.

SocINDEX with Full Text

SocINDEX with Full Text — music* as Keyword Search

9,219 hits on music* in keyword search

SocINDEX with Full Text — music* as Keyword Search

7,113 academic articles with music* keyword search.

• COUNTRY music -- Social aspects• ENVIRONMENTAL music• MUSIC• MUSIC, Influence of• MUSIC -- Physiological effect• MUSIC -- Psychological aspects• MUSIC therapy• MUSICIANS• POPULAR music• RAP (Music)• MUSICAL theater• MUSICALS• WOMEN musicians

A Few of the Many Music Subject Entries in SocIndex

A Few Recent and Intriguing Articles in SocIndex: 1

A Few Recent and Intriguing Articles in SocIndex: 2

A Few Recent and Intriguing Articles in SocIndex: 3

A Few Recent and Intriguing Articles in SocIndex: 4

• Produced by H. W. Wilson Company (available through a variety of portals, including OCLC FirstSearch).

• Covers concepts, theories, and methodologies in all areas of the social sciences, overlapping anthropology, political science, economics, psychology, geography, and law.

• Indexes 646 English-language journals.

• Includes over 964,000 records as of 2/15/08.

• Coverage: citations from 1983; abstracts from 1994.

• Most recent date of articles with music* search: February 2008.

Social Sciences Abstracts

Social Sciences Abstracts — Search on music*

3,806 hits on music* in keyword search

Social Sciences Abstracts — An Intriguing Recent Article NOT in SocIndex

Very precise music subject analysis.

Resources:

PsycARTICLES (EBSCO)

PsycINFO (EBSCO)

Psychology

Music and the Mind

• Music perception • Music cognition

• Music therapy • Music and society

• Music education • Music and the emotions

• Produced by the American Psychological Association (APA).

• Offered by EBSCO.

• Contains more than 122,000 articles from 60 journals.

• 49 titles published by the APA and its imprint, the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF).

• 11 titles from allied organizations.

• Includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal.

• Coverage spans 1894 to present; nearly all APA journals go back to volume 1, issue 1.

• Most recent date of articles with music* search: January 2008.

PsycARTICLES

PsycARTICLES — music* as Keyword Search

789 hits on music* in keyword search

PsycARTICLES — music* as Subject Search

359 hits on music as a subject term.

PsycARTICLES — Music Perception as Subject Search

106 records with subject “music perception”

• Produced by the American Psychological Association (APA).

• Contains nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s.

• 97 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed.

• Journal coverage, which spans 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 2,100 periodicals in more than 25 languages.

• Recent date of articles with music* search: February 2008.

PsycINFO

PsycINFO — Search on music* as Keyword

20,270 hits on music*

PsycINFO — music* Limited by All Journals

15,359 hits on music under “All Journals*

PsycINFO — searches on subject “music perception”

1,112 hits on music perception

Indexes psychological music journals.

PsycINFO — Article Results on “Mozart Effect”

51 articles on “Mozart Effect”

RILM — articles results on “Mozart Effect”

36 results on “Mozart Effect” in English

PsycINFO & RILM — “Mozart Effect” articles compared

Resources:

AnthroSource

Anthropology Plus (OCLC)

Anthropology

Music and the World

• Ethnomusicology • World music

• Music and culture • Music and society

• Developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA).

• Contains 15 of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications, including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, and Medical Anthropology Quarterly.

• Latest date when searching “music”: Dec. 2007 (with abstracts).

AnthroSource

AnthroSource — Advanced Search Screen

Uses “stemming” for search words—Anthrosource searches for words

similar to the search word. There is no truncation symbol.

AnthroSource — Advanced Search Screen

Uses “stemming” for search words—Anthrosource searches for words

similar to the search word. There is no truncation symbol.

4,554 results with “music” search.

AnthroSource — Journals with Articles Dealing with Some Aspect of Music

• Available from OCLC FirstSearch.

• Described as the world’s most comprehensive, focused index of bibliographic materials from the late 1800s to today in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology; ethnology, archaeology, folklore, and material culture; and interdisciplinary studies.

• Combines Anthropological Index (Royal Anthropological Institute) and Anthropological Literature (Harvard University’s Tozzer Library).

Anthropology Plus

Anthropoloy Plus — Search on music*

8.450 results from search on music*

Anthropoloy Plus — Search on music arab*

“Borderland Pop” Search in RILM and Music Index(combined search via EBSCO)

“Borderland Pop” is not in RILM or the Music Index.

Anthropoloy Plus — Search on music and Mali

Music is not a subject; only a title word.

Resources:

EconLit (EBSCO)

Business Source Premier (EBSCO)

Economics

Music and Business

• The music business • Copyright

• Music festivals • Famous performers

• Environmental music • Recording industry

• Sponsored by the American Economic Association.

• Considered to be the world’s foremost source of citations and abstracts for the literature of economics back to 1969, with links to full-text articles.

• Uses the complex Journal of Economics classification system and a controlled vocabulary of keywords

• Latest date of articles with music* search: October 2007.

EconLit

EconLit — Search on *music

421 hits on music*

Note complex subject

headings

EconLit — Search on “music industry”

EconLit — Music Industry Search Limited to Journal Articles

Note complex subject

headings

EconLit: Search on Subject “Intellectual Property Rights” and downloading / music

• Produced by EBSCO.

• Updated daily.

• Provides full text for more than 2,300 journals, including more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications.

• Described as the “most used business research database.”

• Latest date of articles from music* search: March 2008.

Business Source Premier

Business Source Premier — Search on music*

196,622 hits on *music!

Business Source Premier — Search on music*

3,234 hits on *music limited to academic

journals.

Business Source Premier — Search on downloading music in Academic Journals

99 articles, including all three downloading articles in EconLit.

Business Source Premier — Sample Full Record

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