Music Research Guide
These Research Guides are intended as starting points for research.
Please contact the subject-specialist librarian if you have research questions, would like library instruction, or have material purchase requests.
Jennifer Barrera
Access Services - Office 109C
phone: 254-968-9248
email: barrera@tarleton.edu
Help is also available by using the Ask a Librarian page, emailing reference@tarleton.edu, calling (254) 968-9249, or coming into the library.
Books, Documents, Reports, Journals Titles, AV Materials, Etc.
Tarleton State University Libraries Catalog - Database of all items owned by Tarleton Libraries. Look here for books, government reports, journal titles, videos, CDs, etc. Keyword searching is available.
Library of Texas - Search for Books and Articles from libraries located in Texas. The Library of Texas lets you pick the library collections you search, helping you locate items near you.
WorldCat - (FirstSearch Core) Books and other materials in libraries worldwide. WorldCat contains more than 32 million records describing items owned by libraries around the world. If Tarleton does not own these items, they can be requested through Inter-Library Loan.
Databases and Journal articles
Academic Search Complete - general index of more than three thousand scholarly journals. Some full text and full image articles are available.
Dissertations and Theses - Full Text - The database includes bibliographic citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester. Citations for dissertations published from 1980 forward also include 350-word abstracts written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. The full text of more than one million of these titles is available in paper and microform formats. Institutional subscribers to ProQuest Dissertations and Theses - Full Text receive on-line access to the complete file of dissertations in digital format starting with titles published from 1997 forward.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online - a comprehensive digital edition of The Eighteenth Century, the world’s largest library of the printed book on microfilm, available through its imprint Primary Source Microfilm™. In the most ambitious single digitization project ever undertaken, nearly 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800 will be made available online over the course of the next two years. When complete, the product will allow full-text searching of more than 33 million pages of material, in essence, every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.
International Index to Music Periodicals Full-Text - covers most aspects and ages of the world of music. IIMP draws its current content from more than 300 international music periodicals from over 20 countries and includes retrospective coverage from over 110 periodicals.
JSTOR - goals include the following: 1.To build a reliable and comprehensive archive of important scholarly journal literature 2.To improve dramatically access to these journals 3.To help fill gaps in existing library collections of journal backfiles 4.To address preservation issues such as mutilated pages and long-term deterioration of paper copy 5.To reduce long-term capital and operating costs of libraries associated with the storage and care of journal collections 6.To assist scholarly associations and publishers in making the transition to electronic modes of publication 7.To study the impact of providing electronic access on the use of these scholarly materials.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts - covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.
Oxford Music Online - Grove Music -- In addition to the regular programme of revisions and new articles, Grove Music Online has grown to include The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (published in print in 1992 and online in 1999) and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition (2001). Through a partnership with Sibelius notation software, over 500 of Grove's musical examples are now available in sound as well as notated examples.
Project Muse - provides access to the full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and other areas.
E-Journals and Internet Links
- ELECTRONIC JOURNALS by Category (Subject).
- ELECTRONIC JOURNALS by title.
- METALIB: search multiple subject specific databases at once
- INTERNET LINKS: including Professional Societies and Organizations.