Journals & eJournals
Get Your Journals Here
Are you looking for a specific journal? See these instructions for finding a journal in our catalog and databases.
If you’re unsure where to begin, try this list of recommended journals.
Search the Library Catalog
How to Find Journals in the Catalog
Navigate to the library catalog by choosing Catalog ⇒ Go to the Catalog from the navigation bar.
In the catalog, select the Resources dropdown menu and choose the option eJournals A–Z List.
Dropdown menu in the library catalog. When the search junction appears, select the tab labeled Journals.
Search or browse:
Search the eJournals A–Z List to find out if Northwestern provides full-text coverage.
Alternatively, select the Browse tab to see a complete list of journal titles.
Options available in the periodical search junction.
Navigate to the library catalog by choosing Catalog ⇒ Go to the Catalog from the navigation bar.
Choose the Advanced Search option.
Advanced search. Under Search Index, select Title. Then type the name of the journal you want to find in the Search Term bar.
Specify Journal/Magazine under Format and conduct your search.
The advanced search screen.
While in an EBSCO database, select the tab labeled Publications to browse or search the publication list.
You can subscribe to receive updates from a particular journal by selecting the RSS icon () to the left of the journal’s title.
Suggested Journals
These journals may be useful.
This is not a comprehensive list. In a research database, you can search by Journal Name in conjunction with other search terms.
- 19th-Century Music
19th-Century Music publishes articles on all aspects of music having to do with the "long" nineteenth century. The period of coverage has no definite boundaries; it can extend well backward into the eighteenth century and well forward into the twentieth.
- Journal of Popular Music Studies
Dedicated to research on popular music throughout the world & approached from a variety of positions.
- The Musical Quarterly
The Musical Quarterly, founded in by Oscar Sonneck, has long been cited as the premier scholarly musical journal in the United States. Over the years it has published the writings of many important composers and musicologists, including Aaron Copland, Arnold Schoenberg, Marc Blitzstein, Henry Cowell, and Camille Saint-Saens.
- Music Educators Journal
The oldest academic journal in the field of music education, MEJ keeps teachers up-to-date on the latest ideas of music education scholars and practitioners.
- Perspectives of New Music
Forum, commentary and reviews on any kind of contemporary music, including the music itself, word-music, the relation of language and text to music, the relation of visual art and other arts to music, aesthetics, improvisation, and computer music.
- Popular Music History
Original historical & historiographical research that draws on the wide range of disciplines & intellectual trajectories that have contributed to the establishment of popular music studies as a recognized academic enterprise.
