• Books in Miller Library:
  
  
  • Reference:
    
    
    • Online:
      
      
      • Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
      • New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians Online
      • Oxford Companion to Music
        
        
    • Print:
      
      
      • The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll
      • The Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music
      • The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
      • Encyclopedia of Rhythm & Blues and Doo Wop Vocal Groups
      • The Oxford Companion to Jazz
      • Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians
      • The Harvard Dictionary of Music
      • The Garland Encyclopedia Of World Music
      • The Oxford Dictionary of Music
      • The Oxford History Of Western Music
      • Reader's Guide to Music: History, Theory, Criticism
      • Sourcebook for Research in Music
    
    
    
• Books in the main collection:
  
  
  • Subject search:
    
    
    • uses Library of Congress classification system
      • M = music and books on music
        
        
    • Subject search suggestions
      • start with major headings and then skim the subheadings, e.g.:
        
        
    • Rock Music
    • World Music
    • music with the name of country, e.g.: Music--Africa
      
      
  • keyWord search in the title, contents, series, etc.
    
    • Rock and Roll
      
      
• Author search
  
  • Hendrix, Jimi
    
    
• Books outside Miller Library:
  
  
  • Other libraries:
    
    
    • U of MD libraries
    • U of DE
    • Library of Congress
      
      
  • WorldCat
    • most distinguished database of catalogued books in the world
    • searches over 52 million records held by academic libraries worldwide
      
      
      
• For books not in the library, order through Interlibrary Loan
• free, online order form, budget 1-2 weeks

• Academic Search Premier
  • 4,500+ general and academic journals, including music
  • coverage from 1985+
  • mostly full-text
    
    
• JSTOR
  • 440+ scholarly journals, including music
  • complete run of all journals except for the most recent 3-5 years
  • full-text
    
    
• Music Index Online
  • a subject-author guide to music periodical literature
  • all styles and genres of music
  • indexes more than 725 international music periodicals from over 40 countries in 23 languages
  • links to JSTOR full-text content
  • coverage from 1978+
    
    
• Naxos Jazz Music Library
  • one of the most comprehensive collection of jazz music available online
  • over 500 jazz artists represented
  • comprised of Naxos Jazz and the 22 labels of Fantasy Jazz
  • requires Windows Media Player

• Project MUSE
  • 250+ scholarly journals, primarily in the humanities
  • coverage from 1983+
  • mostly full-text
    
    
• WilsonWeb
  • 3,500+ general and academic journals
  • two components: OmniFile Full Text Mega; Humanities & Social Sci Retro
  • OmniFile Full Text Mega: indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text in 1994
  • Humanities & Social Sci Retro: index only, 1907-1984
  • 1,750 journals are full-text
    
    

• Check journal titles in Journal Finder, the library's list of full-text electronic periodicals
  
  
• For articles not in the library, order through Interlibrary Loan
  • free, online order form, budget 1-2 weeks

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• Worldwide Internet Music Resources (Cook Music Library, Indiana U.)
  
  
• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame + Museum
  
  

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• Hacker Online
  • formatting examples


• RefWorks
  • online research management and writing tool
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