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Music Periodical Databases

JSTOR Arts & Sciences JSTOR offers high-quality, interdisciplinary content to support scholarship and teaching. It includes leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. Journals are always included from volume 1, issue 1 and include previous and unrelated titles.
Music Periodicals Database (IIMP) Music Periodicals Database (IIMP) provides indexing, abstracting and selected full-text coverage of the most important scholarly and popular music journals published today.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text RILM is a comprehensive music bibliography featuring citations, abstracts, and indexes. Publications originate from 151 countries and are in 214 languages. There are currently over 550,000 records in RILM on traditional music, popular music, and classical music. Coverage of all document types begins in 1967. Coverage of Conference Proceedings goes back to 1835.
Oxford Bibliographies Online: Music OBO: Music combines the best features of a high-level encyclopedia and a traditional bibliography in a style tailored to meet the needs of today's online researchers. Each article, written and reviewed by top scholars in the field, is rich with citations and annotations, expert recommendations, and narrative pathways to the most important works for virtually all areas of music.

Education Periodical Databases

ERIC Education Index Sponsored by the US Department of Education, this database contains journal articles, books, research reports, teaching, and more on the topic of education research and resources. Includes all areas of education, from early intervention (birth to age three), preschool, K-12 (public and private), and higher education. Includes bilingual, special, gifted, and computer education..
Education Source Journal articles on all levels of education (from early childhood to higher education) and all educational specialties (such as multilingual education, health education, and testing)
Educator's Reference Desk The Educator's Reference Desk includes 2,000+ lesson plans for all grade levels that are browseable by subject. This resource also provides resource guides for a variety of areas, including resources for beginning teachers and various subject areas and education levels.
Oxford Bibliographies Online : Education Annotated bibliography of resources in the field of education. Bibliographies are broken down into a wide range of subtopics, such as leadership, assessment, play, qualitative analysis, etc.

Dissertations and Theses

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Doctoral dissertations completed at universities worldwide. Also includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations. The full text for most dissertations added since 1997 is available, and those that are not may be available via Interlibrary loan

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