FSU Subscription Databases

Below you will find two lists of databases and services available to the FSU community. The first list consists of the databases we have found to be the most commonly used for music research. Descriptions are from the library catalog, unless otherwise noted. The next is a more general list of databases and journals that may be useful for one who is researching music-related topics.

Some of the items on this list are individual resources; others are large aggregate databases that contain multiple related resources. In both cases, if you are trying to use these resources from off campus you will need to go through the FSU proxy server. Click here to log in.

The contents and locations of databases are constantly changing and merging. If you would like to make us aware of any music-related FSU subscribed databases that are not on this list, please contact the webmaster.

These are just some of the many databases to which FSU subscribes. Click here for a list of all FSU databases, or here for individual journal titles.

Frequently-Used Music Databases:

Classical Music Library (from the Classical Music Library homepage): “Classical Music Library is the world’s largest multi-label database of recordings for listening and learning in libraries. Coverage of repertoire is increasing as new labels are added (currently over 32 labels).”

First Search on the Web Includes 25+ General, Multidisciplinary and Reference databases.

Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (Oxford Music Online) Covers musical composers, performers, scholars and persons whose contributions are in some way connected to the world of music. Includes 3,000 links to related sites that contain sound archives and illustrations and full-text searching capabilities. Global coverage of articles includes all genres of music from ancient times to the present.

DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music) A collection of sound recordings documenting American music largely ignored by the commercial recording companies. Works can be browsed by work, album or track titles, as well as by artist roles, and date of recording and composition. Some biographical and role information are provided for artists. NB: Currently DRAM is accessible from on-campus computers only.

IIPA: International Index to the Performing Arts IIPA draws its current content from more than 130 international performing arts periodicals from 9 countries, and also indexes feature performing arts articles and obituaries appearing in The New York Times and The Washington Post. Indexing 1998 - present (plus 89,464 retrospective citations from 46 periodicals, dating back to 1864).

Index to Printed Music: Collections & Series A searchable database for finding individual pieces of music printed in standard scholarly collected editions. Music is searchable by specific performing forces, composer, geographical area, time or style period, and original source (such as manuscript).

International Inventory of Musical Sources/Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM) An effort to comprehensively document the world's musical sources of manuscripts or printed music, works on music theory, and libretti stored in libraries, archives, monasteries, schools and private collections. Among the different series of RISM, only series A/II: "Music manuscripts after 1600" is currently available online.

JSTOR A database of the back issues of core journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. The gap between the most recently published issue of any journal and the date of the most recent issue available in JSTOR is from 2 to 10 years.

Naxos Music Library (from the Naxos Music Library homepage): "Naxos Music Library is the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It includes the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues of over 130,000 tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music." Flash Player 10 required.

Project Muse Provides access to the full-text of more than 200 scholarly journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Subjects include art, anthropology, classics, culture and society, demographics, economics, folklore, history, language, literature, mathematics, medicine and health, philosophy, politics, religion, science, sociology, etc. Coverage varies according to title (1993-)

Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals 1800-1950 (RIPM) A large-scale bibliographical project which was established to provide access to eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century periodical literature dealing with music. The RIPM database represents an effort to coordinate retrospective periodical indexing on an international scale and currently functions as a cumulative index to 185 volumes of periodicals of international significance from 15 countries and contains more than 467,500 annotated citations, more than 218,000 reviews, and more than 8,500 biographical citations.

RILM Music Literature Abstracts Offers an international bibliography of scholarly writings on music and related disciplines in 202 languages, including original language titles; title translations in English; full bibliographic information; abstracts in English; and author, journal, and subject indexes. Includes all forms of scholarly works from 1969-

WorldCat The world's most comprehensive bibliography, with over 150 million bibliographic records representing over 400 languages and covering information from 4,000 years of knowledge.

Other Useful Databases:

American Periodical Series Digitized images of the pages of over 1,100 American magazines and journals published between 1740 and 1900. Covers special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals. Titles range from Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine and America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository; popular magazines such as Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal; regional and niche publications; and groundbreaking journals like The Dial, Puck, and McClure's.

Article First Contains bibliographic citations that describe items listed on the table of contents pages of more than 13,000 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Each record describes one article, news story, letter, or other item from 1990-

Arts & Humanities Citation Index (or Arts & Humanities Search) The Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database indexing more than 1,100 arts and humanities journals, as well as relevant references from over 6,800 science and social sciences periodicals from 1975-

CLASE PERIODICA CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology. Together they offer access to more than 300,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages. They contain information from articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues. Coverage for Clase is 1975 to present. Coverage for Periodica is 1978 to present.

Current Index to Journals in Education (in ERIC) The ERIC database corresponds to two printed journals: Resources in Education (RIE) and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE) . Both journals provide access to some 14,000 documents and over 20,000 journal articles per year from 1967-

Current Research @ Florida State University Download the full text of dissertations and theses from Florida State University published from 1997 to the present.

Dissertation Abstracts/Digital Dissertations Covers every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions for the last 150 years. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations. Titles published since 1997 are available in PDF digital form full-text.

Dissertations @ Florida State University Download the full text of dissertations and theses from Florida State University published from 1997 to the present.

Early American Imprints

• Series I (1639-1800) Based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans. The definitive resource for every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any other topic imaginable. Contains over 36,000 imprints and more than 2.5 million images.
• Series II (1800-1819) Provides full-text and full-page-image access to books, pamphlets, and broadsides published in America from 1801 through 1819. This comprehensive collection also features many state papers and government materials, including published reports; presidential letters and messages; and congressional, state and territorial resolutions. Based on the authoritative American Bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker, which is now supplemented by thousands of new items.

Education Research Abstracts Online (ERA) (in Informaworld) ERA is an abstracting and indexing service of international educational research literature. The database comprises more than 25000 abstracts, covering from 1995 onwards, with monthly updates. In excess of 500 journal titles are scanned in the compilation of ERA. ERA comprises the aggregation of seven commercially available printed products (Educational Technology Abstracts, Multicultural Education Abstracts, Research into Higher Education Abstracts, Sociology of Education Abstracts, Special Educational Needs Abstracts, Educational Management Abstracts) and a general file which is only available in the online product.

Emerald Library E-Journals (MCB Publications) Full text of the journals published by MCB. Subject areas include business and management, library and information science, engineering, and education and management from 1994-

Encyclopedia of Education Intended to provide a comprehensive description of the enterprise of education both within the United States and throughout the world.

ERIC (Eric-First Search) Educational Resources Information Center. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. The ERIC database corresponds to two printed journals: Resources in Education (RIE) and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Coverage from 1966-

Essay & General Literature Index Changed to H.W. Wilson January 2004. Indexes essays and articles that have been published in collections as books. It is a good source of literary criticism published in books rather than in periodical articles from 1985-. More than 300 volumes are indexed annually. Additionally, more than 20 annuals and serial publications are indexed. Essay and General Literature Index also provides full bibliographic information on collective titles indexed. Essay and General Literature Index focuses on the humanities and social sciences, with subject coverage ranging from economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, drama, and film.

Expanded Academic ASAP Indexes articles in approximately 1000 scholarly journals and popular magazines in the arts, humanities, social sciences, science and technology from 1980-.

Francis Contains records from more than 3,000 journals, books, dissertations, and other American and European sources covering the humanities, social sciences, and economics.

Gale Databases Contains literary, cultural, health, legal and business databases. Also known as the Gale Group.

Humanities and Social Science Full Text (plus Retrospective) Periodical coverage in Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective (1907-1984) includes some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. Humanities Full Text brings you full text plus abstracts and bibliographic indexing of the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities, as well as numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines.

ISI Web of Knowledge Includes Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Links to some full text. Formerly called Web of Science.

NetLibrary NetLibrary is a collection of over 30,000 recently published electronic books consisting of a broad range of reference, scholarly, popular and professional books. Language may be limited to Spanish.

OCLC Union Lists of Periodicals (via FirstSearch) Includes more than 7 million listings linked to over 750,000 bibliographic records in WorldCat. The listings provide local holdings information so that users can search for locations of periodicals in their own and other libraries.

OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition Provides indexed and abstracted records with accompanying full text from over 1300 periodicals from H.W. Wilson General Science Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, Readers’ Guide Abstracts, and Wilson Business Abstracts, and many other Wilson databases. Coverage is from 1994- present.

Oxford English Dictionary Traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.

Oxford Reference OnlinePlease note: Oxford Reference only allows access for 5 FSU users at one time. If you are being asked for a username and password, please try to access the database later. Oxford Reference Online contains over 100 general and subject dictionaries, and language reference works published by Oxford University Press. The collection includes quotations, proverbs, place-names and other general reference works. Among the English language reference works are thesauri and a wide variety of dictionaries (e.g. grammar, abbreviations, idioms, eponyms, euphemisms). Foreign language dictionaries include German, Italian, and Spanish. Specialized subject dictionaries are available in a wide range of disciplines.

ProQuest Databases include: Historical New York Times, ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, Wall Street Journal, and Criminal Justice Periodicals.

Readers' Guide Index Retrospective & Readers' Guide Full Text Readers' Guide Index Retrospective (1890-1982) contains comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th Century America. Readers' Guide Full Text is a database containing comprehensive indexing and abstracting of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada, plus the full text of selected periodicals. Full-text coverage begins in January 1994 for most titles.

Ulrich’s International Periodicals Directory Provides information on prices, frequency of publication, addresses, publishers' phone and fax numbers, e-mail and Web site addresses for over 270,000 journals, magazines, annuals, series, newspapers, and other periodicals published worldwide.