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Music Literature Indexes RILM Abstracts Music Index Online IIMP RIPM JSTOR Local Music Indexes Music Journals in Full-Text E-Journals Remote or off-campus access to many resources discussed on this page is restricted to UC or UCB students, faculty, and staff and governed by Conditions of Use. In order to access these resources from off-campus please consult the Library's Proxy Server Service. If you have questions about locating information in music periodicals or other sources please do not hesitate to call the Music Library reference desk at 642-2624 or stop by for a consultation. |
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Individual articles published in music periodicals and essays found in collections are not listed in UCB library catalogs. To find these works one must use music literature indexes. The Library at Berkeley offers three major online indexes devoted to current music literature as well as two retrospective indexes. These indexes differ significantly, from the number and types of sources covered to the way they describe and present citations. Although each index has an area of relative strength—Music Index, for example, is strongest in the field of music education, IIMP in performance topics, and RILM in musicology—thorough research involves checking more than one when looking for article citations and other literature on music.
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The UCB Libraries web page on Article Databases contains various lists of indexes available for searching. Subject-oriented article index databases in fields outside or related to music as well as article indexes with more general, multidisciplinary subject content can direct advanced research toward writings in periodical sources not indexed in the major music literature indexes listed above. Music Journals Available Online
in Full Text at UCB Of the three major online indexes devoted to current music literature available at UCB, only IIMP provides articles in full-text directly to the screen. Less than one-fifth of the music journals indexed in IIMP, a relatively small selection of about 60 sources, are offered in full-text. Several of the more general, multi-disciplinary article indexes (e.g., ProQuest Research and Infotrac Expanded Academic), however, also contain full-text articles from a selection of music journals, as do database services that aggregate UC and UCB subscriptions to electronic journals (e.g., Ingenta Select) and retrospective journal indexes (e.g., JSTOR and PCI Full Text). In addition, a small number of academic journals make their entire contents freely available through the Web in publications known as e-journals. Although many of these resources are available through the California Digital Library, full text music journals listed in CDL are only part of what is offered at UCB. A comprehensive listing of online, full-text periodical articles in music are in fact available from a patchwork of sources found at UCB Library Electronic Journals. Please check the UCB catalog, OskiCat, to find local holdings of the many printed volumes of older issues not covered by these offerings. |
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E-Journals In addition to the full-text articles from subscription sources listed above, a much smaller number of academic journals make their entire contents freely available through the Web in publications known as e-journals. E-journals are published online only and usually have no print equivalent. Relatively few e-journal titles, however, have their contents included in the music article citation indexes discussed above—though the number is slowly increasing—and few appear in library catalogs such as OskiCat. Articles in music e-journals are thus difficult to access in comparison to those in traditional print sources or even print sources with electronic, full-text delivery. The following is a selection of e-journals of interest in the fields of ethnomusicology, historical musicology, and composition. Each full-text journal is distributed via the Web, with back issues also available online (i.e., 'zines and commercially oriented publications are excluded), and all or substantial portions of the journal content of each is freely accessible (i.e., sites do not simply represent advertising for a print edition of the journal). Additional e-journal titles may be found by browsing the extensive lists freely available at New Jour, and especially DOAJ /Music, the Directory of Open Access Journals, featuring free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and many languages. De Musica, Philosophy,
Aesthetics and Theory of Music, 1997-
Please report broken links and additional music e-journal titles of interest to the UCB Music Library Reference Desk or to UCB Music Library Web. |
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