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Guide to English, Media, Dance, Film, Music and Theatre resources for students and staff of UNSW.
Last update: Sep 23rd, 2009 URL: http://subjectguides.library.unsw.edu.au/arts  Print Guide  RSS Updates

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Key music databases

  • Music Index  
    Covers all aspects of Music and Music Education. 1979+
  • RILM Abstracts of Music Literature  
    Major international resource for research in Music and Music Education.
  • Oxford Music Online  
    An important resource which includes Encyclopedia of Popular Music, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online, and The Oxford Companion to Music.
  • ERIC  
    Major international resource for all aspects of education. 1966+
  • Classical Music Library  
    Classical music library is a streaming classical music service that enables listening and learning at library and home computers.
  • Naxos Music Library  
    Similar to above.
  • Music Australia  
    MusicAustralia is an online service developed by the National Library of Australia and the National Film and Sound Archive. MusicAustralia helps you to find, access and navigate a rich store of information on Australian music, musicians, organisations and
  • Opera in Video  
    Opera in Video will contain 250 of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world’s best performers, conductors, and opera houses.
  • Music Online  
    Cross-search hundreds of thousands of audio tracks, scores, reference works, and thousands of hours of video across all Alexander Street Press music databases.

Multidisciplinary databases

  • APAFT: Australian Public Affairs Full Text  
    Major index to journals and periodicals published in Australia. 1978+
  • Factiva  
    Full text coverage of a wide range of international newspapers, including the SMH, Australian Financial Review and The Australian. Good source for performance reviews.
  • Expanded Academic ASAP  
    Coverage of a wide range of academic journals, including a number in the area of music. Good coverage of ethnomusicology. 1980+
  • OmniFile Full Text Mega  
    Includes coverage of the Social Sciences Index, The Humanities Index, Reader's Guide.
  • JSTOR  
    Provides retrospective full text access to a range of journals. Click on browse to see the range of journals included, or search across a range of journals. 1800+
  • Periodicals Archive Online  
    Similar to JSTOR in providing full text access to older issues of journals. Click on browse to see the range of journals included, or search across a range of journals.
  • Project Muse  
    Provides access to over 40 Johns Hopkins University Press academic journals. Coverage includes music.

Subject specific databases

  • Alternative Press Index  
    Indexes journals outside the main academic stream. Useful for information on World music. 1991+
  • America: History & Life  
    Index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. A major index to Americana, including music and cultural traditions. 1964+
  • Arts Hub  
    Arts Hub is the online home for Australian arts workers. It includes: Jobs Bulletin, online employment resource listing positions vacant and positions wanted, including job opportunities from the UK and USA.
  • A+ Education  
    A+ indexes journal contents from 1978+ and offers full text from 2000+
  • Bibliography of Asian Studies  
    Indexes Western language periodicals. Includes coverage of Asian music and performing arts traditions. 1971+
  • British Humanities Index  
    Includes coverage of Europe and Commonwealth countries.
  • Historical Abstracts  
    Covers world history from 1450 to present. 1982+
    For US history see America: History and Life
  • Communication & Mass Media Complete  
    Broad coverage of media issues. Includes coverage of new media.
  • PsycINFO  
    Major international resource for research in psychology. Useful for topics such as psychology of music ; psychology of performance, and music as therapy.
  • Sociological Abstracts  
    Major international index to research literature in sociology. Includes coverage of ethnomusicology. 1974+
 
 

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Music reference

  • Oxford Music Online  
    Incorporates Grove Music Online, Encyclopedia of Popular Music, The Oxford Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music.
  • Oxford Reference Online  
    Online access to a large range of Oxford reference resources. Includes Who's Who in Opera, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music, The Oxford Companion to Music and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera.

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