1. Best Resources for Music Research Laurie J. Sampsel

2. Library Catalogs Local Catalog – Next-Generation Catalog Consortia Catalog WorldCat – http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/ http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/ – http://www.worldcat.org/ (free) http://www.worldcat.org/

3. General Music Encyclopedias and Dictionaries Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online – http://alexanderstreet.com/ http://alexanderstreet.com/ Oxford Music Online – http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/ http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/

4. Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online E-book version of the encyclopedia published 1998–2002 Audio examples are included Articles have not been updated

5. Oxford Music Online Includes: New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Second Edition Plus: New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, Second Edition New Grove Dictionary of Opera Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers

6. Oxford Music Online Also includes: Oxford Companion to Music Oxford Dictionary of Music Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Fourth Edition (optional add-on)

7. Oxford Music Online Does not include: New Grove Dictionary of American Music (1986) New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments (1984) But it will include the forthcoming second edition of both, which are in preparation

8. Best Biographical Dictionary of Musicians Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Music, Ninth Edition – Part of Alexander Street Press’s Classical Music Reference Library – http://alexanderstreet.com/ http://alexanderstreet.com/

9. Best Dictionary of Musical Terms Harvard Dictionary of Music, Fourth Edition – Available online from Credo Reference – http://corp.credoreference.com/ http://corp.credoreference.com/

10. Music Periodical Indexes International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) and IIMP Full Text – http://iimp.chadwyck.com/ http://iimp.chadwyck.com/ Music Index – http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/music- index http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/music- index RILM Abstracts (International Repertory of Music Literature) – http://rilm.org/ http://rilm.org/

11. IIMP (ProQuest/Chadwyck-Healey) Best Bet for Recent Articles with Full Text Number of records: over 900,000 Dates: primarily 1996–present; there is some retrospective indexing back to 1874 Journals Indexed: over 480 titles indexed; 167 titles are full text Abstracts provided for citations from 1996 forward Full Text Available? Sometimes Update Schedule? Monthly

12. IIMP Search Tips Use “select from a list” especially for subject terms Subject searches only work on citations from 1996 forward Use “*” for truncation Use option to limit search to citations with full text when necessary Check box “Exclude reviews” and/or “Peer-reviewed articles only” After searching, use “Filter Results By” to reduce the number of results Use the online help for more information

13. Music Index Number of records: almost 2 million Online Dates: 1970–present (with some indexing back to 1952) Paper Dates: 1949–2005; be sure to search the paper index for 1949–1970 Journals Indexed: ca. 680 Abstracts Provided? Some abstracts are available Full Text Available? No Update Schedule? Weekly

14. Music Index Search Tips Use the “Advanced Search” Use “Limit your results” Use “Indexes” and “Browse an Index” to find correct forms of search terms Use “Choose Databases” to also search RILM Abstracts, RIPM, etc., if those are available from EBSCO Try the “Narrow Results by” options to reduce the number of results Try the “Refine your results” options including “Source type” and “Subject” Use the online help for more information

15. RILM Number of records: about 670,000 Dates: 1967–present Journals Indexed: over 680 core titles and over 650 secondary titles Abstracts provided? Yes Full Text Available? No Update Schedule? Monthly

16. RILM Abstracts Search Tips Varies by Vendor – EBSCO – ProQuest/CSA RILM offers tutorials on each platform; see http://rilm.org/http://rilm.org/

17. General Periodical Indexes Academic Search Premier – http://www.ebscohost.com/ http://www.ebscohost.com/ – Includes over 30 music journals JSTOR – http://www.jstor.org/ http://www.jstor.org/ – Includes over 80 music titles Project MUSE – http://muse.jhu.edu/ http://muse.jhu.edu/ – Includes over 10 music titles

18. Music Dissertations and Theses ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (PQDT) – http://proquest.com/ http://proquest.com/ – Use subjects “music” and “music education” with keywords Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology Online – http://www.ams-net.org/ddm/ http://www.ams-net.org/ddm/ – Includes registered dissertations in progress

19. Online Scores International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) (free) – http://imslp.org/ http://imslp.org/ Classical Scores Library and Classical Scores Library: Volume II – http://alexanderstreet.com/ http://alexanderstreet.com/

20. Online Scores, Individual Composer Site Examples Neue Mozart-Ausgabe: Digitized Version (NMA Online) (free) – http://dme.mozarteum.at/DME/main/? http://dme.mozarteum.at/DME/main/? Beethoven Haus Bonn Digital Archives (free) – http://www.beethoven-haus-bonn.de/ http://www.beethoven-haus-bonn.de/

21. Online Recordings Classical Music Library – http://alexanderstreet.com/ http://alexanderstreet.com/ – Includes almost 6,000 discs (almost 90,000 tracks) from 65 labels Naxos Music Library – http://www.naxos.com/ http://www.naxos.com/ – Includes almost 55,000 discs (almost 800,000 tracks) from over 400 labels

22. Online Videos Classical Music in Video – http://alexanderstreet.com/ http://alexanderstreet.com/ – Includes over 400 hours of video Opera in Video – http://alexanderstreet.com/ http://alexanderstreet.com/ – Includes over 250 operas licensed for educational use

23. Online Multimedia Library Projects American Memory – http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html – Includes 32 performing arts and music collections with images, audio, and video Performing Arts Encyclopedia – http://www.loc.gov/performingarts/pae- home.html http://www.loc.gov/performingarts/pae- home.html – A guide to the LC collections in several divisions, including the Music Division

24. Directories of Online Music Research Tools Harvard College Library’s Online Resources for Music Scholars – http://hcl.harvard.edu/research/guides/on music/ http://hcl.harvard.edu/research/guides/on music/ – Selected and updated by music librarians