LibGuides: *Music: Find Articles

Recommended Databases

Oxford Music Online
Oxford Music Online (formerly Grove Music Online) is a gateway that offers users the ability to access and cross-search the vast resources of Oxford's music reference in one location, including the full-text of several reference books.
MLA International Bibliography
MLA International Bibliography is an index of journal articles, books and dissertations in the Humanities. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers. Coverage is international and subjects include music. Coverage is from 1926-present.

Fine Arts (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Provides more than 150 full-text magazines and journals that are covered in indices such as the Wilson Art Index and RILM, this collection will provide support for research in areas such as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.
Coverage Dates: 1980 - present
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Launched in 1995 by the Johns Hopkins University Press in collaboration with the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at John Hopkins University, Project MUSE is an interdisciplinary collection of high quality, peer reviewed journals.

You do not need to be an OSU student, faculty or staff member to access these resources.

Music Treasures Consortium
From the Library of Congress. Provides online access to the world's most valued music manuscripts and print materials, held at the most renowned music archives.

Search or browse materials, access metadata about each item, and view digital images of the treasure via each custodial archive's Web site.
Aria Database
Browse or search by aria, composer, opera, role, range, language, voice parts, and accompanying materials, if available.

Entries also include the dramatic setting of the aria, synopsis, sound files if available, aria text, a link to Amazon.com to locate recordings of operas, and a link suggesting sources for obtaining the score.

Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975.
Academic OneFile (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. Extensive coverage of the sciences, technology, medicine, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects - authoritative and comprehensive. Millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions; updated daily.
Coverage Dates: 1980 - present
ERIC (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Index to research articles, government and independent reports and conference papers covering all areas of education at all levels.
1966-present. Includes thesaurus searching, links to the OSU Libraries Online Catalog and full text document service (EDRS), where applicable (via the Locate Document button).
1966-present. Links are provided for full text articles and documents.
1966-present. Index and Abstracts plus links to the EDRS collection.