Research Guides: Music: Journal Articles

Music Research Articles

WESTERN ART MUSIC

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new window
Selectively indexes scholarly writings about music occurring in journals, books, dissertations, festschrift, conference proceedings, and other similar publications. Primarily focused on Western art music, but one can locate some interesting literature related to musical theater also. Indexes writings that were published from early-20th century to the present.
RIPM Online Archive of Music Periodicals This link opens in a new window
RIPM Online Archive of Music Periodicals is a collection of full text primary source material for the study of music and musical life from approximately 1760-1960. Its collection is comprised of music-focused periodicals, music-centric articles from general newspapers and literary periodicals, etc. While focused on music, these resources are an excellent way to study popular culture of the 19th and early 20th century.
Music Index This link opens in a new window
Provides cover-to-cover indexing of scholarly journals in the field of music. Includes feature articles, review articles, and reviews.

Bibliographie des Musikschrifttums is a freely available index sponsored by the Institut fur Musikforschung in Germany. It covers many items already found in RILM, but it does have unique material that is from smaller European publications and also is much more comprehensive during the 1950-1966 period of time.

Canadian Music Periodical Index includes over 37,000 entries on articles dating from the late-19th century to the present day. Canadian music journals, newsletters and magazines are represented here, almost 200 of which are currently active and continue to be indexed. The CMPI database focuses on articles and news items touching on various aspects of music in Canada.

POPULAR MUSIC

Music Periodicals This link opens in a new window
Full text articles from scholarly journals and trade magazines in the field of music. While good for topics in classic musicology, it particularly shines in music performance and popular music research.
Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
Historical archive of trade magazines focused on the entertainment industry (i.e., music, film, broadcasting, and theatre). Excellent source of information to discover things like top charts, hiring notices, industry announcements, entertainment union news, etc.

ELECTRONIC MUSIC

Contemporary Music Collection This link opens in a new window
Full text of small group of music trade journals that are focused on electronic/contemporary music. Includes titles like Computer Music, MusicTech, Wire, etc.

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ElectroAcoustic Research Site (EARS) attempts to index the literature dealing with electronic music, sound art, etc. It stopped actively indexing around 2007, so it doesn't have the most recent writings, but it's a great place to search for information that might be especially important to the ICIT department.

Interdisciplinary Databases

These databases don't solely focus on music, but they do contain lots of great information that could be helpful to you depending on your topics.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Provides access to scholarly journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. In addition to journal articles, users can access book chapters, ebooks, and primary source documents. Note, it generally doesn't provide the 2-4 most recent years of a journal.
Performing Arts Periodicals This link opens in a new window
Scholarly index for journal, trade magazine, and popular magazine articles in the fields of dance, drama, and film.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
A broad collection of journals and ebooks with emphasis on humanities and social sciences. Publishers include numerous university presses and scholarly societies. Music highlights include Early Music, Perspectives of New Music, American Music, and Black Music Research Journal.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
An abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Content covers research output in the fields of physical science, health science, life science, technology, medicine, and social sciences. It's a great resource for music topics that intersect with technology.
ERIC This link opens in a new window
ERIC is one of the best regarded databases for education research. From scholarly articles, to book chapters, to dissertations/theses, this version of ERIC is easy to filter through and find the resources you seek. There is a relatively large selection of music education research found here.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Published by the American Psychological Association (APA), PsycINFO provides an international index for scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences. The database includes material of relevance to psychologists and professionals in related fields such as psychiatry, management, business, education, social science, neuroscience, law, medicine, and social work.
CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
CINAHL indexes journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing for selected journals back to 1937. This is a good database to find information about performing arts medicine.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
A scholarly, multidisciplinary database that provides access to journal articles covering a range of topics, including archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, and other fields. It also indexes monographs, reports, and conference proceedings.

Interlibrary Loan

When you're in UC Library Search, you can request items that we don't locally own or that are currently checked out using the Interlibrary Loan (ILL) process. You will need to login to your library account (this uses your UCINet ID and password) to initiate this request. Full information is available here: https://www.lib.uci.edu/interlibrary-loan

Selected Major Music Journals Online from UCI Libraries

Want to stay on top of all of the newest literature in the Music field? Create a free Browzine account and accomplish it in a snap! It easily allows you to browse journals available through UCI Libraries by subject, put them on your own personal bookshelves, and also be notified when new issues come out. Some of the journals available through this resource are below:

Asian Music