Music: Find Articles
Find it @ PSU
If the article you have found in a database doesn't have the full-text right there, click on the 
button to see if the article is available in full-text in another database. If we do have it, it will take you to a page that shows you where it's available (if you see a Download Article link, you can click to access the electronic copy).
Journal Title Search
Find a Specific Article
If you have the citation for a specific article, here is how you can figure out if PSU has the article and (if we do) get to it in full-text:
1. Using Google Scholar, enter the title of the article in the search box.
2. If we have the article, there will be a link to the right of the result in Google Scholar that says Find it @ PSU. Click this link.
3. If the article is available online, it will show you what database or databases hold the journal that contains the article and what years are available electronically. You can then click on the Download Article link, or, if it that link is unavailable, click on the title of the database to get to the online journal and then browse by date or search by title (depending on the database) for your article.
4. If the journal is in print, it will show you the call number and location under Find & Request.
If PSU does not have access to full-text, you may be able to request the article through interlibrary loan.
Core Online Resources
These are likely to be the best online sources in which to start your music research.
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Fine Arts and Music CollectionProvides full text magazines and scholarly journals in the fine arts and music. Some additional content may be freely available during the Covid-19 Pandemic.
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International Index to Music Periodicals FulltextProvides coverage from 1874 to the present of popular and scholarly works in music.
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International Index to Performing Arts FulltextProvides indexing and full text coverage of performing arts.
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JSTORContains full text articles from major research journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Coverage of most journals starts from the beginning of a journal's publication and typically excludes the most recent three to five years. Some additional content may be freely available during the Covid-19 Pandemic.
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Oxford Music OnlineIncludes full text of the 29-volume New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition.
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RILM Abstracts of Music LiteratureIndexes citations and articles for scholarly journals in all areas of music published by Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM). Some additional content may be freely available during the Covid-19 Pandemic.
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Web of ScienceMaintains citation searching for high impact research journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and sciences and includes emerging sources citation indexing from 2005.
Multidisciplinary Resources
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Doctoral dissertations in musicology onlineA listing of dissertations in musicology, including lists by periods such as Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, etc.
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Academic Search PremierProvides selected full text, scholarly, and peer reviewed articles in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Some additional content may be freely available during the Covid-19 Pandemic.
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JSTORContains full text articles from major research journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Coverage of most journals starts from the beginning of a journal's publication and typically excludes the most recent three to five years. Some additional content may be freely available during the Covid-19 Pandemic.
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Oxford Reference OnlineContains full text subject encyclopedias, reference works, dictionaries, and handbooks in all disciplines.
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Dissertations and Masters Theses Global (ProQuest)Maintains citations, abstracts, and full text of dissertations from 1997 to the present along with citations and abstracts for selected masters theses from 1962 to the present. Includes subject, title, and author indexing to U.S. dissertations from 1861 to the present.
Biographies
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Oxford Music OnlineIncludes full text of the 29-volume New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition.
Scholarly, Professional, Popular?
The first thing you should do when you have a research assignment is figure out what types of article sources are required or allowed. Some professors require you to use only scholarly peer-reviewed journals while others might let you use professional journals (also known as trade journals.
Scholarly article - written by an expert in the field and reviewed by peers who are experts in the same area. In many databases, you can limit your search to scholarly, peer-reviewed or refereed journals to weed out any non-scholarly content.
Professional/trade article - Trade or professional journals can have articles written by experts in the field or by staff writers. The articles are only reviewed by editors for style, so they go through a less rigorous review process. The articles often do not contain reference lists.
Popular journals - Written for a general audience rather than for professionals or scholars. Examples include The New Yorker, People, and Rolling Stone.