Redeemer University College

Music Databases

 

Humanities International Complete
This is a comprehensive database of humanities content which provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Produced by Whitston Publishing, it provides indexing and abstracting for over 1,700 journals and contains more than 1.5 million records.
·Type: citations and full text

 

Canadian Music Periodical Index
A free, searchable index, provided by the National Library of Canada, to over 500 Canadian music journals, magazines, and newspapers. Covers all musical activity in Canada.
· Coverage: 1890-
· Type: citation index

 

Academic Search Premier
This multi-disciplinary database contains indexing for over 8,000 publications covering virtually every area of academic study. More than 3,600 of these are peer-reviewed, full text journals.
· Coverage: 1975 - (for more than 100 of the journals)
· Type: citations, abstracts and full-text

 

Music Library Association (MLA) Obituary Index
This is an on-line version of an index of obituary citations published annually by the Music Library Association (MLA) in its quarterly journal, Notes. The index facilitates access to information about musicians and other members of the music world.
· Coverage: 1966-1995
· Type: citation index

 

ArticleFirst - OCLC
Contains bibliographic citations that describe items listed on the table of contents pages of journals in science, technology, medicine, social sciences, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Allows you to limit your search results to a specific library's holdings (e.g. Redeemer's or McMaster's).
· Coverage and update frequency: Jan. 1990-; daily
· Citations

 

WorldCat Database (the OCLC Union Catalog)
The world's most comprehensive bibliography, with more than 48 million bibliographic records representing books and other materials (but not journal articles) in 400 languages. Covers information back to 2100 B.C. Includes holdings information from libraries across the world as well as records describing selected internet resources. Includes the Library of Congress Subject Headings as its thesaurus. Allows you to limit your search results to a specific library's holdings (e.g. Redeemer's or McMaster's).
· Coverage and update frequency: back to approx. 2100 B.C.; daily