Comprehensive database of articles, reviews, and obituaries about music, musicians, and the music industry covering every aspect of the classical and popular worlds of music.
Database covers both classical and popular music, and includes music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theater, and theory from more than 600 international scholarly and popular music journals.
Coverage: 1874 - current
Designed for academic institutions, this database supports high-level research and covers a broad range in key areas of academic study by providing journals, periodicals, reports, books, and more. Academic Search Complete offers an enormous collection of thousands of full-text journals, allowing users to access critical information from many sources unique to this database.
Index to scholarly publications in sociology, covering topics such as criminal justice, marriage and family, social work, substance abuse, and violence.
Humanities Full Text™ provides coverage of feature articles, interviews, bibliographies, obituaries, and original works of fiction, drama, poetry and book reviews, as well as reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, radio and television programs, plays, operas, and more.
Abstracts and citations to the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences. The database includes material of relevance to psychologists and professionals in related fields such as psychiatry, management, business, education, social science, neuroscience, law, medicine, and social work. Also contains abstracts and book chapters from 1806-1966.
Index to scholarly journal articles on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and pre-clinical sciences.
Sometimes you might have difficulty finding articles about a particular song or artist in a database, especially if it is a large database like EasySearch. Here are some tips to narrow things down more effectively.
The ability to identify and break down the main concepts of your topic into a search strategy a fundamental skill of the research process. The following tutorial is an example of breaking down a topic in Academic Search Complete.
Field searching allows you greater control over your search by choosing where in the record you want to search for those keywords. This can give you greater precision when searching and allow you to apply some context to the search. For example, if the keywords appear in the abstract of the article, it might be more relevant for your needs. Use the drop-down menu to the right of each search box to select a field. See the above image for some examples of the most commonly-used fields.
Limit yourself to changing the field for one or two concepts at the start, as you might otherwise reduce the pool of results too much. If the search does not turn out the way you wish, experiment and try field searching with other keywords.
Databases often have a variety of filters that you can use to narrow down the results. You can apply these filters before the search or at any point afterwards.
Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals: Ensures that you are only seeing peer reviewed journal articles. You likely want this on in most cases.
Full Text: Only display articles that have full text available. While convenient, you may miss great articles that you can still order through Interlibrary Loan.
Year Range: Only show articles that were published in this date range.
Subject: Filter the results by the most common subject headings
Only have the citation? You can use EasySearch or the Journal Finder to see if we have the article in a different database. If we do not, we can still order it for you through Interlibrary Loan.