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Databases for Music

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Bibliographical databases: Core titles
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature A database of music scholarship which covers all areas of music, including historical musicology; ethnomusicology; instruments and voice; librarianship; performance practice and notation; theory and analysis; pedagogy; liturgy; dance; criticism and music therapy. RILM also includes interdisciplinary studies of music and various other fields
Grove Music Online (Oxford Music Online) Electronic version of the 29 volume printed second edition of the New Grove dictionary of music & musicians, providing extensive coverage of classical music, jazz, world, rock, popular and light music
Naxos Music Library Online music from NAXOS Classical and Jazz collections
JSTOR Arts and Sciences and Music Complete back runs of over 30 titles dedicated to scholarly research and theory in the field of music
British humanities index (BHI) via ProQuest Includes Music and performing arts

Bibliographical databases on related topics, general databases and library catalogues
Anthropological index online Database from Museum of Mankind
COPAC Union catalogue of major UK University Research Libraries, the British Library and the National Libraries of Wales, and Scotland
Dissertation abstracts US and European dissertations and theses
IBSS via ProQuest International bibliography of the Social Sciences
Index to theses References to U.K. theses
Web of Knowledge (WoK) Interdisciplinary database with coverage from 1900 including Arts & humanities citation index
ZETOC Access to British Library Electronic Table of Contents (ETOC)