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RILM (Le Répertoire international de littérature musicale) 

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RILM indexes periodicals as well as books, collections of essays, dissertations, videos, conference proceedings, etc. Indexes sources in many languages. 1967-present. Also available in print.
  RIPM (Le Répertoire international de la presse musicale)
RIPM Online indexes sixty primarily nineteenth-century music journals published in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Germany, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian, Spain, Sweden and the United States. An international board of scholars, librarians and archivists selected titles that focus on nineteenth-century music and musical life; access to this information is critical for the development of nineteenth-century studies in musicology. 

RISM (Répertoire international des sources musicale)RISM is a comprehensive annotated index and guide to music manuscripts produced after 1600, found in over 595 libraries and archives in 31 countries. The records include graphical images of over 506,000 musical incipits.

Note: you may search RILM RIPM and RISM together from the NISC Databases page.  Click on Select Multiple Databases button and use the checkboxes to select both RILM and RIPM.

 
Music Index

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Music Index covers primarily English language music periodicals but does include some foreign language titles. The Music Index is available in print format, 1949-present.  Online covers 1979- present.
 
International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text

IIMP Full Text provides indexing and abstracts for more than 400 international music periodicals, plus full text for around 80 journals.
IIMP Full Text also includes retrospective coverage of additional periodicals dating back as far as 1874. Included in the content are a number of complete-run titles, from inception to the present (or final) issue, and many partial run titles. IIMP Full Text covers a comprehensive range of subject areas in both scholarly and popular music journals.
 
Canadian Music Periodical Index
CMPI is an index to Canadian music periodical literature which provides bibliographic sources for
information on all aspects of musical activity in Canada. Updated monthly, the database currently
includes more than 25,000 entries indexed from 475 Canadian music journals, newsletters and
magazines from the late nineteenth century to the present day. 
General Indexes with Music Content
 
ERIC (via Ovid) ; ERIC (via FirstSearch)
An index in the field of education which includes information of use to music education majors.  Periodicals, books, dissertations, etc are indexed. Available online, via FirstSearch or Ovid.  1966-present.
 
Humanities Abstracts

Includes information from over 350 English language periodicals-disciplines ranging from music to archaeology. 1984-present. 

Expanded Academic Index
2000 scholarly and popular interdisciplinary journals, national news magazines, and the last 6 months of the New York Times. About half the entries include full text. Covers 1996-

 
Arts and Humanities Citation Index

A multidisciplinary database which indexes 1,100 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals.  1975-present. Offered through ISI Web of Science.
 
International Index to Performing Arts Full Text
IIPA Full Text draws its content from more than 200 scholarly and popular performing arts periodicals, and also indexes a variety of documents such as biographical profiles, conference papers, obituaries, interviews, discographies, reviews and events. IIPA Full Text covers nearly all aspects of performing arts, from scholarly studies to snapshots of popular culture. See the Title List for periodicals included. Most IIPA Full Text records in the current coverage contain an abstract, and selected records contain corresponding full text of the original article.
 
Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur (IBZ)
IBZ-Online is a multi-disciplinary index to journal articles in English, German, and other Western European languages with citations going back to 1983.
 
FRANCIS

FRANCIS indexes more than 4,200 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences published mainly in Western Europe and North America, plus selective coverage of conference papers and chapters in edited collections. Coverage begins with 1984. 
 
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Dissertation Indexes


Dissertation Abstracts
Dissertation Abstracts is an index to dissertations accepted at accredited US institutions since 1861.

Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology Online

DDM-Online is the online counterpart to Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology (ML128.M8D621 Music Reference). It is comprised of the Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology, 2d International Edition (1984) and Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology, 2d Cumulative Edition (1996) with updates and corrections. In order to be thorough, one should check DDM-online, as well as the older print versions. 

Foreign Dissertations 
Begin by using Vincent H. Duckles Music Reference and Research Materials located behind the Reference Desk (ML113D83M81997).


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