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Music Resources: Articles/Online Databases

Provides guidance on the resources available and how to find information related to Music.

Searching for Articles

When you want to search for articles from magazines, journals, and newspapers on Music:

  1. Go to the  library homepage:https://www.epcc.edu/Services/Libraries
  2. Click on "Online Databases. (An online database is a collection of magazines journals, and newspapers that have been placed on the computer.)
  3. The databases are divided up by subject.  Choose the subject closest to the topic of your research.
  4. Try these subjects: Database Collections, General, Humanities, Career & Testing, or Video.  In some cases you may need Business or Science & Technology depending on the subject matter such as the music industry or sound engineering, etc...
  5. Choose a database under one of these subjects.
  6. Select the database you would like to use by clicking on the title. (You will enter your MyEPCC Login/password)
  7. Enter your keywords in the search box and click search.
  8. Checkmark the Full Text box (limits to articles with full text article attached.)
  9. Find the article you want to read and click on the title.
  10. To read the article, click on pdf or html full-text link provided.
  11. You can e-mail, print, or save the article.

Remember:

  • Online databases are available 24 hours a day.
  • Online Databases are available from any computer with Internet access.  Just click on any of the database names.  When the database opens, it will ask you to log in with your MyEPCC login and password.

General Databases

The General Databases provide a good place to start for all topics.  Many of the music journals can be found in Academic Search Complete and Academic OneFile.

Academic Search Complete -- [Full Text | Ebsco]

A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.

Academic OneFile -- [Full Text | Gale]

Source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive.
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/

Credo Reference -- [Full text | Credo] 

Music Topics on Credo Reference

Credo is an easy-to-use tool for starting research. Gather background information on your topic from hundreds of full-text encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and subject-specific titles, as well as 500,000+ images and audio files and hundreds of videos.
https://search.credoreference.com

MasterFILE Complete -- [Full Text | Ebsco] 

Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,000 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1922. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, it also contains full text for more than 1,000 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps & flags. This database is updated daily.
http://search.ebscohost.com/

Business Databases

The Business Databases are good for topics in the updates and new things/latest trends/business side in the Music Industry. 

Business Source Complete -- [Full Text | Ebsco]

Provides full text for over 4,000 business journals in such fields as management, economics, finance, accounting, and international business. Includes indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals (back to 1886 or the first issue published for that journal.)
http://search.ebscohost.com/

Small Business Reference Center -- [Full Text | Ebsco]

Offers a wide variety of information on small business and entrepreneurial subject areas, common business types, a help and advice section, and provides information on how to create business plans that lead to successful funding.
http://search.ebscohost.com

Video Database

The Video Databases provide hundreds of  videos on topics in music such as composition, composers, performances, careers, history, and more.

AVON (Academic Video Online) -- [Videos | Alexander Street] 

It delivers more than 70,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. More than 14,000 titles are exclusive to Alexander Street.
https://search.proquest.com/avon

Career and Testing Databases

The Career & Testing Databases provide information on Careers, Resume/Cover Letter Preparation, and Job Searching.

Job and Career Accelerator 5.0 -- [Full Text | Learning Express]

A fully integrated interest assessment, career exploration, and job search platform helps job seekers explore careers that match their interests and expectations and build a personalized occupation knowledge base. MUST create a new account.
http://www.learningexpresshub.com/jobandcareeraccelerator 

Vocational and Career Collection -- [Full Text | Ebsco]  

Provides vocational and career full text information from more than 350 trade and industry-related periodicals.
http://search.ebscohost.com/

Database Collections

Database Collections allow you to search many databases at the same time. Rather than searching Business Databases, then Humanities Databases, then Computer Databases, allow you to search all at once.

EBSCO Databases (All)  -- [ Ebsco]

Search all Ebsco databases at one time.  Click on "All Databases" and then "Select All"
http://search.ebscohost.com   

Gale Group/InfoTrac Collections Menu -- [Full Text | Gale]

Access to InfoTrac and all Galenet databases. Click on "Cross Search" at the top right.
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/

JSTOR Archival Journal & Primary Source Collection -- [Full Text |JSTOR] 

Foundational content in the Humanities and Social Sciences with nearly 700 core titles across 45 disciplines.
https://www.jstor.org

Humanities Databases

The Humanities Databases provides access to resources pertaining to topics in the Humanities including Music.

Humanities Full Text -- [Full Text | Ebsco]

Includes many of the most important academic journals in the humanities with the full text of articles from over 300 periodicals dating back to 1995, and high-quality indexing for almost 700 journals - of which 470 are peer-reviewed - dating as far back as 1984.
http://search.ebscohost.com

JSTOR Archival Journal & Primary Source Collection  -- [Full Text |JSTOR] 

Includes all 2,800+ academic journals on JSTOR that span more than 60 disciplines across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, along with millions of primary sources across four collections.
https://www.jstor.org

Science and Technology

The Science and Technology databases provide information on topics related to Music Technology, Audio, Engineering, and Computers.

Computer Source: Consumer Edition -- [Index | Ebsco]

This database contains nearly 300 full text technical journals and consumer computer magazines covering topics such as computer science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software.
http://search.ebscohost.com/

Gale in Context: Science -- [Full text | Gale]

An engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of todays most significant science topics. This continuously updated reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/ 

ProQuest SciTech Collection Premium --- [Full Text | ProQuest]

The SciTech Premium Collection includes the Natural Science Collection and the Technology Collection and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more.  For those researchers who need to conduct comprehensive literature reviews, this database includes specialized, editorial-controlled A&I resources for discovery of relevant scholarly research and technical literature critical to the discipline.
http://www.umi.com/pqdauto

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