Research Guides: [FAS] Music: Africa and the African Diaspora: Research Guide: Finding Articles

Key Article Indexes

These indexes are especially useful for research in music and performance:

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
An international bibliography of music articles, collections, and books. Indexes scholarly articles, reviews, conference papers, essays, book chapters, dissertations and more. Strong in ethnomusicological journals and topics.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature features a wealth of content from the early 1800s through the present with some content coverage extending back as far as the late 18th century. Updated monthly, the database includes coverage of relevant articles from more than 10,000 journals, many of which are not specifically devoted to music. RILM Abstracts of Music Literature also includes nearly 850,000 records with over 52,000 new records are added every year.
Music Periodicals Database
An index of articles and reviews from over 400 scholarly and popular music periodicals (1874-present), plus full text for around 140 journals. (Formerly known as International Index to Music Periodicals, IIMP)
An electronic index of music publications, IIMP draws its current content from nearly 400 international music periodicals from over 30 countries, and also indexes feature music articles and obituaries appearing in The New York Times and The Washington Post. This service contains publications from Acta Musicologica: Societe Internationale de Musicologie to the Music Educators Journal to Zeitschrift fuer Musikwissenschaft (1918-1935).
Music Index Online
Good for research on popular music, ethnomusicology, and reviews. The online version covers articles published from 1970-present; earlier volumes are available in print:Loeb Music Library ML118.M84 (1949-present)
The Music Index Online provides citations to articles, book and record reviews, first performances, and obituaries from over 690 international music periodicals covering a wide range of historical, musicological, and ethnomusicological topics.

RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals (Full Text)
Collection of primary source material for the study of music and musical life from approximately 1800 to 1950.
European and North American Music Periodicals (Full Text)
Part of the RIPM Preservation Series, a supplement to the RIPM Retrospective Index. Titles include one hundred journals dealing with musical life in world capitals and several monumental journals including Musical America.
RIPM Jazz Periodicals
Full-text American jazz magazines and journals from the 20th century.

JSTOR
Full-text access to scholarly articles from over 50 music periodicals published from the 1860s - 2000s. Remember: JSTOR does not include the most recent issues of journals; the following databases offer more current coverage:
Includes all titles in the JSTOR collection, excluding recent issues. JSTOR (www.jstor.org) is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. For complete lists of titles and collections, please refer to http://www.jstor.org/about/collection.list.html.
Performing Arts Periodicals Database
An index of articles and reviews from over 300 performing arts journals (1864-present), covering theatre, film, dance, opera, and stagecraft, plus full text from over 100 journals. (Formerly known as International Index to Performing Arts, IIPA)
A multidisciplinary electronic index to the performing arts periodical literature with full text for over 100 journals. The index covers material from 1998 forward, with some retrospective listings.
ProQuest - Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive
A full-text resource for the study of the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies to 2000. The collection includes US and UK trade magazines covering film, music, broadcasting, and theater, film fan magazines, and popular music magazines. Indexing includes not only articles and reviews, but covers and advertisements.
Primary sources for film, broadcasting, popular music and theatre, 1880 – 2000##Our new digital archive is sure to receive rave reviews fromthose wanting to know more about behind-the-scenes activities of the music, film, and entertainment industries. By providing the complete runs of major trade and consumer magazines, from their inception to 2000, it arms students and researchers with the primary source material needed to develop a contextual understanding of the entertainment industry as it evolved over the 20th century.
Academic Search Premier (Harvard Login)
A multi-disciplinary index with the full text of over 8500 journals, both popular and scholarly. Especially useful for interdisciplinary topics.
Academic Search Premier (ASP) is a multi-disciplinary database that includes citations and abstracts from over 4,700 scholarly publications (journals, magazines and newspapers). Full text is available for more than 3,600 of the publications and is searchable.

Using Article Indexes

Use specialized periodical indexes and bibliographies to find materials like articles, book chapters, and reviews. A number of these indexes include the full text of articles; if not, look for the purple FIND IT link - - to automatically search Harvard's eresources for the full text.

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Finding Articles: More Tools

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Harvard Library: Journals Search
Find the full text of an article if you already have its title and/or a partial citation.
Online Resources for Music Scholars: Article Indexes
Links to journal indexes useful for the study of music.
LibX
A browser extension to quickly reload subscription-only articles on the Web via Harvard's licensed e-resources.
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Essential Tool: LibX

Harvard LibX: a browser add-on for Firefox and Internet Explorer

Quickly search HOLLIS, E-Research@Harvard, and Google Scholar
Select text on a website and right-click for more search options
Right-click to reload restricted websites like JSTOR through Harvard's subscriptions
Click the embedded Harvard shield on results in Google, Amazon, etc. to connect to Harvard's collections
Automatically link ISBNs, ISSNs, PubMed IDs, and DOIs to Harvard's collections