Music in General Databases—Overview and Searching Tips for Finding Important Musical

Content in Non-Music Electronic Resources

Presented byDarwin F. Scott

Creative Arts Librarian Brandeis University

Music Library AssociationThe Society for American Music

Joint ConferencePittsburgh, PAMarch 1, 2007

http://people.brandeis.edu/~dscott/mla/pitt-e-resources.htm

NON-MUSIC ELECTRONIC RESOURCESWITH IMPORTANT MUSICAL CONTENT—

TOPICAL LIST CRITERIA

• All resources tested for music content February 27, 2007.

• Extent of music coverage varies from resource to resource and is generally highly selective.

• When searched with focused expectations, these resources can produce useful citations and data not found in the standard music resources.

• Omits aggregators (Academic Search Premier, etc.) and obvious general resources (Dissertation Abstracts, Encyclopædia Britannica Online, Web of Science, etc.).

• List based on resources accessible from Brandeis University.

• This is a subjective list—not intended to be comprehensive.

African American Music

• Oxford African American Studies Center

Central portal for several key reference sources on African Americans published by the Oxford University Press.

American Music

• America: History and Life (ABC-Clio)

Indexes journals, books, and dissertations on U.S. and Canadian history and culture, 1964 to present.

• American National Biography (Oxford University Press)       Over 18,300 biographies, including the 17,435 original biographies from the 1999 print edition. New biographies added and others revised three time per year— including articles on recently deceased notables as well as figures from the past who were not subjects in the print edition.

• America’s Historical Newspapers (Readex Archive of Americana)

Searches or browses early American newspapers including titles from all 50 present states. Includes: Early American Newspapers, Series I (1690–1876), Early American Newspapers, Series II (1758–1900), and Early American Newspapers, Series III (1829–1922).

• Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639–1800 (Readex Archive of America)  

Searches or browses the books, pamphlets, broadsides, and other imprints listed in the bibliography by Charles Evans.

NON-MUSIC ELECTRONIC RESOURCESWITH SIGNIFICANT MUSIC CONTENT—TOPICAL LIST

NON-MUSIC ELECTRONIC RESOURCESWITH SIGNIFICANT MUSIC CONTENT—TOPICAL LIST

• Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801–1819 (Readex Archive of America)        

Search or browse the books, pamphlets, broadsides and other imprints listed in the distinguished bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker.

Arabic / Islamic Music

• Index Islamicus (CSA)

Bibliography of almost 100 years of publications in European languages on all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world, including history, cultures, societies, languages, and literatures.

Asian Music

• Bibliography of Asian Studies

Indexes western-language monographs, articles, and book chapters on the social sciences and humanities pertaining to all parts of Asia, 1971 to present.

British Composers and Musicians

• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online (ODNBO)

Full text of the 60-volume Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Contains illustrated biographies of people who were born or have lived in the United Kingdom and who have made a lasting impression or significant contribution to the history of the British Isles. Three updates per year.

NON-MUSIC ELECTRONIC RESOURCESWITH IMPORTANT MUSICAL CONTENT—TOPICAL LIST

Eastern European Music

• American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies Online (EBSCOhost)

Indexes articles, books, book reviews, dissertations, and selected government publications on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union published in the United States and Canada, 1990-present.

Early European Printed Music and Librettos

• Early English Books Online (EEBO) (Chadwyck-Healey)

Digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America from 1473 to 1700.

• Eighteenth-Century Collection Online (ECCO) (Thomson Gale)

The digital edition of "The Eighteenth Century" microfilm collection, offering full-text searching and access to nearly 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800.

Ethnomusicology / World Music

• Anthropology Plus (Eureka—moving soon to OCLC FirstSearch)

Indexes articles on all anthropological topics. Combines Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK, 19th century to present.

NON-MUSIC ELECTRONIC RESOURCESWITH IMPORTANT MUSICAL CONTENT—TOPICAL LIST

European Music

• Historical Abstracts (ABC-Clio)

Indexes journals, books, and dissertations on European and world history, excluding the United States and Canada, 1955 to present.

Greek and Roman Music

• L’année philologique

Indexes publications covering all aspects of Greco-Roman antiquity.

Gay and Lesbian Music

• LGBT Life with Full Text (EBSCOhost)

Indexes literature regarding lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues.

Jewish Music

• Encyclopaedia Judaica (Gale Virtual Reference Library)

Full text of the 2007 2nd edition—but coverage of major musical figures is very disappointing (too brief and biographies very out of date)

• Index to Jewish Periodicals (EBSCOhost)

Indexes English-language articles on Jewish history, activity and thought, 1988 to present.

NON-MUSIC ELECTRONIC RESOURCESWITH IMPORTANT MUSICAL CONTENT—TOPICAL LIST

Latin American Music

• Handbook of Latin American Studies Online

Selective annotated bibliography of scholarly works on Latin America in the humanities and social sciences from the Library of Congress. Includes books, journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, and electronic resources. 1935-present, including contents of future print volumes.

• Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI)

Indexes articles on Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean and Latinos in the United States, 1970 to present.

Music Aesthetics and Philosophy

• Philosopher’s Index

Indexes journals and some books in English, French, Spanish, German and Italian covering scholarly research in fifteen fields of philosophy, 1940 to present.

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy A dynamic reference work with refereed entries written by volunteers, covering important topics, history, and major figures in the field of philosophy.

NON-MUSIC ELECTRONIC RESOURCESWITH IMPORTANT MUSICAL CONTENT—TOPICAL LIST

Music and Society /Sociology of Music

• Social Sciences Abstracts (FirstSearch)

Indexes and abstracts articles in over 550 international, English-language social science journals, 1983 to present.

• SocINDEX with Full Text (EBSCOhost)

Indexes and abstracts journal articles in sociology, with full text for a select number of titles, 1895 to present (basically Sociological Abstracts with full text)

Music and Text

• MLA Bibliography

Indexes journals, monographs, working papers and proceedings in literature, language, linguistics, and folklore, 1963 to present.

Music Cognition

• CogNet

Provides an electronic community for the cognitive and brain sciences developed by MIT, including a searchable full-text library, a calendar of events, job listings, discussion groups, and more.

NON-MUSIC ELECTRONIC RESOURCESWITH IMPORTANT MUSICAL CONTENT—TOPICAL LIST

Music in Newspapers (Reviews, Feature Articles, etc.)

• LexisNexis Academic

Provides full-text news from major and regional newspapers.

• New York Times Historical Archive

Includes full-text and full-image issues of the New York Daily Times, 1851-1857 and the New York Times, 1857-2003.

The most comprehensive example of the major newspaper archives produced by ProQuest. (Others include the Washington Post,

Music in Special Collections

• ArchiveGrid

Indexes and provides access to over 700,000 collection records and nearly 30,000 collection finding guides for archival resources.

• National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC)

Indexes close to 500,000 records of archival and manuscript collections in research libraries, museums, state archives, and historical societies throughout

North America.

NON-MUSIC ELECTRONIC RESOURCESWITH IMPORTANT MUSICAL CONTENT—TOPICAL LIST

Music Librarianship

• Library Literature and Information Science

Indexes materials on libraries and librarianship, 1984 to present.

• Library, Information Science, and Technology Abstracts

Includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Mid-1960s to present.

Music in 19th-Century Periodicals / 19th-Century Music

• Nineteenth Century Masterfile

Indexes periodicals, books, newspapers, government documents, scientific papers, and portraits produced during the nineteenth century.

Music Psychology

• PsycARTICLES

Full-text articles from 49 journals published by the American Psychological Association and allied organizations from 1987 to the present. Journals included in this database are indexed in PsychoINFO.

• PsycINFO

Indexes journal literature, books, dissertations and reports in psychology, 1887 to present.

NON-MUSIC ELECTRONIC RESOURCESWITH IMPORTANT MUSICAL CONTENT—TOPICAL LIST

Research Funding and Grants

• COS Funding Opportunities Indexes international funding information for every area of research and scholarly activity, includes daily updates from governmental sources, foundations, professional societies, associations and corporations.

Women and Music

• Contemporary Women’s Issues

Indexes and provides full text to 600 journals, newsletters and reports relating to women's studies, 1992 to present.

• Women’s Studies International Indexes journal literature, books, and mixed media from ten women's studies databases, 1972 to present.

SAMPLE RESOURCES

• LexisNexis Academic—News

• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

• American National Biography

• America: History and Life / Historical Abstracts

• Sociological Abstracts

LexisNexis Academic—News

• Among its many features, offers full-text of 350+ newspapers and 300+ magazines and journals from the U.S. and around the world—many the same day of publication as the initiated search.

• Includes extensive archives—for 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

LexisNexis Academic: News — Homepage

LexisNexis Academic: News — My “Formula” for Searching Concert Reviews, Music and Popular Culture, World Music, etc.

How To Fill In The BoxesStep One — News category: Arts & Sports News (but for Obituaries, use General 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 these as "popular music" and "united states".

• Wild cards: * for each letter; ? for indeterminate number of letters.

Step Four — Select the appropriate date range (the 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. Select as many sources as you wish.

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LexisNexis Academic: News — Search on Peru Negro, Sorted by Date

Date Sort: Concert listings and brief

mentions interfile with more substantive articles and

reviews.

LexisNexis Academic: News — Search on Peru Negro, Sorted by Relevance

Relevance Sort: More substantive articles

tend to fall early in the list.

LexisNexis Academic: News —Peru Negro Article in the Miami New Times

E-mail option

Search within text

LexisNexis Academic: News — Joyce Hatto Search (General News in Major Papers)

LexisNexis Academic: News — Joyce Hatto Search (General News in Major Papers) Sic transit gloria

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Home Page

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Britten Article—Opening

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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Britten Article—Ending(Sources, Archives, Likenesses, Wealth at Death)

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: DNB Archive Link—1986 DNB Article by Donald Mitchell

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Britten Article—National Register of Archives Link

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Britten Article—National Portrait Gallery Link

National Portrait Gallery: Pears and Britten Portrait

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Britten Article—Royal Historical Society Bibliography Link

Royal Historical Society Bibliography: Link to Britten Article by Sophie Aymès

Following the Link to the Article by Sophie Aymèsin La revue LISA, 4:2 (2006)

Following the Link to the Article by Sophie Aymès in La revue LISA, 4:2 (2006)—Illustrations at End of Article

American National Biography — Advanced Search

American National Biography: Music — Occupations and Realms of Renown Performing Arts

Performing Arts

American National Biography—Andrews Sisters

American National Biography—Andrews Sisters

American National Biography—Andrews Sisters, continued

America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts

• ABC-Clio products.

• Now can be searched separately or jointly.

• America: History and Life provides bibliographic references with abstracts to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.

• Historical Abstracts covers the “rest of the world” from 1450 to the present—but completeness of world coverage depends upon the journals indexed.

• Both cite articles dating back to 1954.

• Reasonably up to date—results of 2/27/07 search (very recent citations can lack abstracts)

– AHL: 8 citations from 2007 journals, 1,980 from 2006 journals– HA: 2 citations from 2007 journals, 3,567 from 2006 journals

• Each product covers 2,000+ journals published worldwide.

• In addition to covering all key English-language historical journals, both products include 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 of special interest to researchers and students of history.

• Includes citations for dissertations and book and media reviews.

America: History and Life and Historical AbstractsSearching Tips

• Use quotation marks around phrases.

• Boolean AND is default between search words.

• Truncation: * = multiple letters; ? = single letter.

Note: Exactly the opposite of LexisNexis!! Lesson here: always check the truncation symbols for each product; there is little consistency across databases.

• Time period: Entries are indexed by decades and centuries only.

America: History and Life — Homepage

Historical Abstracts — Homepage

Historical Abstracts and America: History & LifeCombined Search Homepage

America: History and Life — Mozart [and] Franklin Search

Brandeis SFX link

For comparison, latest hits on Mozart and Franklin in RILM are two dissertations, 1999 (in German) and 1996 (in English).

America: History and Life — Mozart [and] Franklin SearchFollowing the SFX Link to PsycARTICLES

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Clicking leads to:

America: History and Life — Mozart [and] Franklin Search Full Text of Article via PsycARTICLES (EBSCOhost)

America: History and Life — Hip-Hop / Rap Music Search

Keyword Search: (hip-hop or hiphop or “rap music”)

and music

Eliminated books from search.

America: History and Life — Hip-Hop / Rap Music SearchUnexpanded Records

America: History and Life — Hip-Hop / Rap Music Search Results — First 8 of 54, with Sample Subjects from Full Records (Old Interface)

Subject: California (Los Angeles).Music.Ethnic identity.Akwid (musical group).Mexican Americans.

Subject: Rap music.Music.Social networks.

Subject: Psychoanalysis.Death and Dying.Music.Rap music.Real (term).Hip-hop.Shakur, Tupac.

Subject: Rap music.Popular Culture.Political Commentary.Music.Internationalism.Hip-hop.

Subject: Religion.Rap music.Music.Blacks.Black Nationalism.

• Popular culture• Popular music and society• Mass media• Ethnic issues• Women and music• Entertainment industry

Social Science Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts, and SocINDEX with Full Text

Can Be Rich Resources for Interdisciplinary Musical Topics

Sociological Abstracts — Homepage

Default is Relevance — you may want to change to Date (descending order)

Sociological Abstracts — Rap Music Search

Sociological Abstracts — Rap Music Search

Sociological Abstracts — Rap Music Search — Sample Record

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