Music Indexes, Databases, and Full-Text Sources
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American Periodicals Series Online
Provides digitized images of more than 1,000 American magazines and journals published from the colonial era to the beginning of the 20th century.
Covers history, politics, the arts and sciences, folklore, and popular culture.
Coverage extends from 1741-1900.

Arts & Humanities Search
Available through FirstSearch.
A citation index that includes over 1.4 million records, referencing more than 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals.
Coverage from 1980 to the present.

FirstSearch databases
Provides access to dozens of indexes and databases in a variety of disciplines.

Greenwood Daily Life Online
Looks at the everyday lives of people throughout history (antiquity to present) from the material, religious, domestic, political, recreational, intellectual, and economic viewpoints. Based on numerous primary and secondary resources, the database includes historical overviews, maps, illustrations, chronologies, and sidebars. Organized by time period, region, and topic.

Humanities Abstracts
Indexes a broad range of some 500 magazines and journal publications in the humanities.
Covers topics in archaeology and classical studies, folklore, history, language and literature, performing arts, philosophy, religion, and related subjects.
Coverage extends from 1983 to the present. Continues print Humanities Index, 1975-1996 (REFB AI 3 .H85) and Social Sciences and Humanities Index, 1965-1974 (REFB AI 3 .R282).

Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984
Indexes nearly 1,200 periodicals in the social sciences and humanities, providing citations to more than 1,300,000 articles. Covers topics in archaeology and classical studies, anthropology, folklore, history, gender studies, language and literature, economics, drama, political science, philosophy, international relations, music, sociology, journalism, psychology, religion, geography, and many other related subjects.
Coverage extends from 1907 through 1984.

IIMP - International Index to Music Periodicals
Covers nearly all aspects of music, from classical composers to popular musicians.
Provides citations and abstracts from more than 380 current (1996 to date) international music periodicals from over 20 countries.
Indexes music articles and obituaries from the New York Times and the Washington Post.
Includes retrospective (pre-1996) citations from more than 140 journals, including the complete runs of 29 publications that date back to 1874.

InfoTrac 1980 to the present
Contains full-text articles, as well as citations and abstracts.
Provides access to a variety of general, academic, and subject-oriented databases.  Of particular use is Expanded Academic ASAP, which indexes more than 600 journals in most academic disciplines, and InfoTrac OneFile, which provides access to the articles in all the Infotrac databases.

Periodicals Index Online (formerly PCI) 1665-1995
Indexes some 10 million articles in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
Provides author, title, and keyword access to the table-of-contents pages of more than 2,700 worldwide periodicals.
Updated regularly, with over 1 million entries added each year.
Coverage extends from 1665-1995.

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