LibraryGuides: Music: Databases

What is a Database?

Research tools that help you find articles in journals, magazines, or newspapers, or other information sources like books, videos, and maps.
Some focus on a kind of source (like newspaper articles); most of ours focus on scholarly research in a specific academic field.

(Ruth Szpunar at DePauw University)

Naxos Music Library
Provides online access to more than 34,000 CDs of western classical music, world music, and jazz recordings. Every month approximately 500 new CDs are added. Tracks can be located by searching keyword searching or by browsing alphabetical lists.

Academic Search Premier
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 3,100 journals, including active full text for nearly 2,750 peer-reviewed journals.
Education Source
A database of education journals and other sources for early childhood through higher education (1929-present).
ERIC
Includes journal articles and documents in the field of education (pre-1966 to present).
Humanities International Index
This database provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities from around the world.
JSTOR
Archive of 2,400 leading academic journals in the humanities, social sciences, sciences, and business. Narrow results by discipline(s).