Music Library Guide: Key Resources
Key Resources for Music
The following databases contain a variety of material, including journal articles, for your specific subject area. The brief descriptions beneath the titles will explain what each hold. To access, click on the title.
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Alexander Street Press Video CollectionAccess to thousands of videos across a wide range of subject areas.
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Box of Broadcasts (BoB)Allows the user to view or listen to over 1 million TV and radio programmes, record from 60+ channels, create clips, search transcripts, compile playlists and more. You will need to select log in via UK Federation, then select University of Sussex from the dropdown list. (New users will need to register their Sussex email address.)
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British Humanities Index (BHI)Now known as Humanities Index.
An international abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities, BHI indexes over 400 internationally respected humanities journals and weekly magazines published in the UK and other English speaking countries, as well as quality newspapers published in the UK. -
British Library Archival Sound RecordingsRecordings of music, drama and literature, spoken word, wildlife and environmental sounds. You will need to select log in via your home institution, then select University of Sussex from the dropdown list.
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British PeriodicalsAccess to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images. Topics covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, the social sciences, music, art, drama, archaeology and architecture.
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GramophoneA magazine devoted to classical music, particularly recordings.
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JSTOR
A trusted archive of important scholarly journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences
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Kanopy (now via Library Search)You can now look for Kanopy films using Library Search. The benefit of this is that it will also search across our other film collections, to make sure that you don't miss out. Simply enter your search terms and select 'Video' from the drop down list at the end of the Library Search bar.
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Oxford History of Western MusicA landmark study on western music by musicologist Richard Taruskin. Links to Oxford Music Online. Covers centuries of musical invention and its interaction with culture, politics and art.
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Oxford Music Online (Includes Grove Music Online)Enables users to access and search Grove Music Online, the Encyclopedia of Popular Music, the Oxford Companion to Music and the Oxford Dictionary of Music.
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Periodicals Archive OnlineAccess to the full text of hundreds of journal archives. Database spans more than two centuries of content, 37 key subject areas and multiple languages.
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RILM Index to Music Literature with full textA comprehensive guide to publications on music from all over the world.
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Rock's BackpagesArchive of music journalism covering all genres of popular music; 1950s to the present day. Articles, video interviews, concert and album reviews from major magazines and newspapers.
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ScopusAbstracts and citations for over 22,800 peer-reviewed titles from more than 5,000 international publishers in science, technology, medicine, social science, arts and humanities
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Web of Science
Access to the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
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