LibGuides: Music & Musicology: Databases & e-resources

Databases & e-resources: A-J

Academic Search Premier via EBSCOhost
Select from the list of databases.

Multi-disciplinary journals
Access Global NewsBank 2022 edition.
Access Global NewsBank: 2022 Edition is designed to deliver broad and varied perspectives from sources across the globe. This resource supports research across a wide range of subject areas, including Political Science, Journalism, History, Environmental Studies, Sociology, Economics, Education, Business, Health, Social Sciences and more. It is the most comprehensive collection of its kind, with more than 7,200 global news sources covering over 200 countries and territories.
Aluka
International, collaborative initiative building an online digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa
Anthrosource
100 years of anthropological material online to scholars and the public, including: current issues for 15 of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications
EBSCOhost Research Databases
Multidisciplinary content.

Select required databases
GoogleScholar
Multidisciplinary content. The academic content of Google. Use in conjuction with Scopus and ISI Web of Science
ISI Web of Science
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED:
Arts & Humanities Citation Index:1975+
Social Sciences Citation Index:1975+
Science Citation Index Expanded:-1975+
JSTOR
Multidisciplinary content. Archived to first issues. Current issues embargoed.

ProQuest Ebooks and Dissertations & Theses

Proquest Ebook Central
Provides access to over 150 000 authoritative ebooks.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
An online database that indexes, abstracts, and provides full-text access to dissertations and theses. It includes over 2.4 million records and covers 1637 to the present.

Databases & e-resources: N-S

Naxos Music Library
Streaming access to classical music library. New CDs added every month.
Oxford English Dictionary
covers words from across the English-speaking world, from North America to South Africa, from Australia and New Zealand to the Caribbean.
Oxford Music Online
Access: Grove music online, The Oxford Companion to Music, The Oxford dictionary of music, Encyclopedia of Popular Music
Oxford Reference Online Premium
Range of fully-indexed, extensively linked, up to date &cross-searchable dictionary, language reference & subject reference works published by OUP, Detailed information across a broad subject range from titles in the Oxford Companions series
Oxford Scholarship Online
Full-text access to academic OUP monographs from key disciplines in the humanities, social sciences & science.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature via EBSCOhost
Comprehensive, ongoing guide to publications on world music.
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Sabinet databases
SA information: journal articles, news clipping, government publications, SA theses information
ScienceDirect
Leading full-text database offering journal articles from more than 2,500 peer-reviewed journals
Scopus
Highly recommended: Multidisciplinary journal articles

Kanopy

Kanopy is an award-winning video streaming service providing access to more than 30,000 independent and documentary films ─ titles of unique social and cultural value from The Criterion Collection, The Great Courses, Media Education Foundation, and thousands of independent filmmakers.

Rhodes University Kanopy link

BrowZine Journal Lookup

Subscribed journals by publisher deal

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ACM Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Computer Science Bibliographic collection from major publishers in computing with over 750,000 entries
American Chemical Society This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text articles in American Chemical Society journals. Includes articles from the first issue of each journal to the present.
Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window
The Annual Reviews service provides searchable, full-text access to original scholarly review articles. These review articles provide periodic examination of scholarly advances in a number of scientific fields as well as reviews of the current state of research literature.
Royal Society of Chemistry This link opens in a new window
The Royal Society of Chemistry publishes 44 peer-reviewed journals, more than 1,500 print books and a collection of online databases and literature updating services.
Their international publishing portfolio covers the core chemical sciences including related fields such as biology, biophysics, energy and environment, engineering, materials, medicine and physics. Subscription includes access to the Archives 1841-2004.
SAGE Journals This link opens in a new window
Sage Journals Online provides access to over 400 leading international peer-reviewed titles, including high-impact research journals published on behalf of scholarly and professional societies.
SAGE Journals Online covers a wide range of subject areas in the Arts & Humanities, Social and Behavioural Sciences and Scientific, Technical and Medical fields.
Springerlink This link opens in a new window
Provides access to Springer Nature journals in the fields of Science, Technology, Health, Engineering, Environment, Economics and Law.
Taylor & Francis online This link opens in a new window
Search and explore the millions of quality, peer-reviewed journal articles published under the Taylor & Francis, Routledge and Dove Medical Press imprints.
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
Wiley Online Library contains peer-reviewed articles that help researchers and library patrons discover and access current studies while maintaining their awareness in various disciplines. It covers a full spectrum of life, health and physical sciences, social science and humanities, and includes titles ranked at the forefront of their field.

Online Newspapers and Magazines

Access Global NewsBank 2022 edition.
Access Global NewsBank: 2022 Edition is designed to deliver broad and varied perspectives from sources across the globe. This resource supports research across a wide range of subject areas, including Political Science, Journalism, History, Environmental Studies, Sociology, Economics, Education, Business, Health, Social Sciences and more. It is the most comprehensive collection of its kind, with more than 7,200 global news sources covering over 200 countries and territories.
PressReader
Connecting people to news.
Provides unlimited access to 6,000+ newspapers and magazines from around the world.Register for a free account on PressReader. Doing so will give you the full functionality of the platform (email alerts, complete personalization of the platform and everything synchronized across all devices with the same username and password)