Articles & Databases
Finding Articles
The library’s research databases enable you to find articles, electronic books, reports, images, and more.
The content of each database varies:
- Some materials are full-text, but some are not.
- Some materials are scholarly whereas some are popular.
- Some databases cover almost every topic while others focus on a specific area.
Here, see a list of databases recommended for Music.
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Fine Arts Databases
Although not necessarily an exhaustive list, the following databases are most relevant to the subject of Fine Arts:
Multidisciplinary Databases
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Academic Search Complete is the world’s most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multidisciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals.
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DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high-quality open-access, peer-reviewed journals.
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JSTOR is a digital library for scholars, researchers, and students.
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Project MUSE offers complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals and books from many of the world’s leading university presses and scholarly societies.
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Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process.
Retraction Watch is an open-access database of peer-reviewed articles that have been retracted, or about which concern has been formally expressed. Database entries contain citation information, the article’s current status, and the reasons why the article has been retracted or is considered questionable.
Related Disciplines
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Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media.
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Gale Literary Index is a master index to the major literature products published by Gale. It combines and cross-references author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and listings for titles of works into one source.
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Gale Literature Resource Center is Gale’s most current, comprehensive, and reliable online literature resource, offering the broadest and most representative range of authors and their works, including a deep collection of full-text critical and literary analysis for literary studies.
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Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center provides comprehensive full-text content for many of the most popular hobbies, crafts, and recreation activities today.
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Humanities International Complete provides the full text of hundreds of journals, books, and other published sources from around the world.
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The MLA Directory of Periodicals, produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), provides detailed information on thousands of journals and book series in the fields of literature, language, linguistics, film, rhetoric and composition, and folklore.
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Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the MLA International Bibliography is the definitive index for the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film, covering scholarly publications from the early 20th century to the present.
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Poetry & Short Story Reference Center is the most comprehensive collection of full-text poetry, short stories, and supplemental content available, offering users a historically rich collection of hundreds of thousands of poems as well as biographies and authoritative essays on such topics as poetic forms, movements, and techniques.
Archives & Special Collections
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ArchiveGrid includes over five million records describing archival materials, bringing together information about historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and more.
News & Current Events
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Designed specifically for high-school libraries, this database contains full text for more than 540 popular high-school magazines.
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MasterFILE Premier contains full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues, and much more.
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Newspaper Source Plus includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles.
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EBSCO’s Newswires provides near real-time access to top world-wide news from Associated Press, United Press International, PR Newswire, Xinhua, CNN Wire, and Business Wire on a continuous basis.
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This current-events database allows researchers to explore social, political, and economic issues, scientific discoveries, and other popular topics discussed in today’s classrooms.
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EBSCO’s Web News provides near real-time access to thousands of top news feeds from around the globe.
eBooks & Reference Works
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The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books.
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This multidisciplinary collection includes thousands of eBooks covering a large selection of academic subjects and features eBooks from leading publishers and university presses.
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Search and view the full text of eBooks.
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Gale eBooks is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
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This eBook reference collection offers a rich selection of eBook titles covering a broad range of general reference subjects for high-school students.
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This eBook reference collection offers a rich selection of eBook titles covering a broad range of general reference subjects.
Theses & Dissertations
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EBSCO Open Dissertations now includes the content from American Doctoral Dissertations. It is a free database with records for more than 1.2 million electronic theses and dissertations from around the world.
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OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open-access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world.