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Key Databases for Articles and Music Reviews

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature Full Text
Find articles, books, and dissertations focused on music. Scholarly and international in scope.

Music Periodicals Database This link opens in a new window
Good general database for music articles with coverage of both scholarly and popular sources.
RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Database of primary source material and periodicals for the study of music and musical life from 1760 to 1966.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Search a collection of important scholarly journals representing a range of disciplines.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Search for journal articles in the humanities and social sciences published by university presses, including the Duke University Press
Periodicals Index Online This link opens in a new window
Search for articles published in the arts, humanities and social sciences
Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new window
Search for journal articles in the humanities, fine arts, and performance arts
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Search for journal articles, books, and dissertations covering literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, and other aspects of literary studies
Humanities Index This link opens in a new window
Search for articles from daily newspapers, weekly magazines and academic journals
Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft (BDSL) This link opens in a new window
Search for journal articles, books, reviews and dissertations on German language and literature, literary history and criticism
DigiZeitschriften Journals This link opens in a new window
Search for articles from German journals and annuals. Journal coverage starting as early as the 1800s
IBZ Online This link opens in a new window
Search for international journal articles in the humanities and social sciences
Duke University Libraries users have access to content published between 2001 and 2022.

Finding Research Databases by Subject at Duke

News Sources

Search for individual newspaper titles using an Advanced Search in the library catalog and filter by format Newspapers. Most runs for any given newspaper title are split between electronic, paper, and microfilm formats. For electronic access, be sure to choose different platforms to see the full range of coverage by date.

For exhaustive listings of important music newspapers and journals by region, see the Grove entry on Periodicals.

General Guides to Finding Newspapers

Duke Research Databases Finder
Filter by newspapers
Duke Library Guide for Newspaper Research
German-Language Newspapers
Grove entry on Music Periodicals
Includes exhaustive listing of periodicals by region and period.

General Newspaper Databases

Newspapers.com: World Collection This link opens in a new window
Search for news articles from 3000+ titles from the US and around the world from 1700s – 2000s. Includes the Historic North Carolina Digital Newspaper Collection.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Search for news, business, legal, medical, and congressional information. Note: formerly named Lexis Nexis Academic.

Proquest Historical Newspapers
Search an archive of English language newspapers dating back to the 19th century.
ICON
Links to newspaper digitization projects from the Center for Research Libraries

European Newspapers

ZEFYS (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin)
Links to digitized historical German newspapers
Europeana
Large database for digital resources from European libraries, including newspapers
ANNO
Austrian newspapers from the late 19th-early 20th century

Music 555: Music Dramas of Richard Wagner: Locate Articles

Key Databases for Articles and Music Reviews

Finding Research Databases by Subject at Duke

News Sources

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