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Key databases
Encyclopedias and dictionaries
High impact journals
Music collections at UNE
Web sites and Internet resources

Key databases

Oxford Music Online Full Text
Oxford Music Online includes the full-text of Grove Music Online, New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, New Grove Dictionary of Opera, New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, Encyclopedia of Popular Music, The Oxford Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music. Please note: UNE's subscription is for one simultaneous user. Please logout when finished.
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JSTOR Full Text
JSTOR contains the full-text of hundreds of journals across the disciplines from archaeology to zoology. Many journal backsets begin in the nineteenth or early twentieth century, however most publishers included in JSTOR have negotiated 3-5 year embargoes, so the latest issues are not included.

ProQuest Full Text
ProQuest has 8,000 magazines and newspapers, 30,000 theses and 4,500 market reports in full text. Other content includes Hoover’s Company Records and 25,000 working papers from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).

Gale Databases Full Text
These cover the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Includes peer-reviewed articles, ebooks and online encyclopedias.

Informit Full Text
Covers architecture, education, engineering and technology, environment, history, hospitality and tourism, Indigenous peoples, law and crime, social sciences and sports.
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Newsbank Full Text
Newsbank has the full-text of more than 100 newspapers from Australia and overseas.

RISM Music Manuscripts after 1600 (CD-ROM)
Contains the complete description and source of manuscripts of over 8,000 composers from Europe, UK and USA. 12th edition, 2004. The CDs are held in Dixson Library at R780.16/R425. An online version of RISM details the manuscripts from 1600-1800 that are held in British and Irish libraries. There are also hundreds of photographs of these manuscripts and scores.

Web of Science
Access scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Includes cited reference searching.
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Encyclopedias and dictionaries

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online Full Text
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online includes images, audio files and over 9,000 pages of text.
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Oxford Reference Online
Search Oxford dictionaries and encyclopedias listed by subject.

High impact journals

The following music journals are held at UNE and have a high ranking in Journal Citation Reports and ERA's listings for Performing Arts and Creative Writing :

Acta Musicologica 1931-2005 and in print P780.5/A188
Australiasian Music Research 1970-2008
Cambridge Opera Journal 1989-2003 and in print P782.1/C178
Contemporary Music Review 1984- and in print P780.904/C761
Current Musicology 1996 - (1 year delay for most current issue)
Dance Research Journal 1998-
Early Music History 1981-2000, 2000-2008, 1981-2003, 2001- (1 year delay for most current issue)
Ethnomusicology 1953-2004, 1998-2001 and in print at call number P781.7/E84
Journal of American Musicological Society 1948-2004, 2001 - , 2000 - 2004 - and in print at call number P780.5/A512j
Journal of Music Theory 1957-2003 and in print P781/J86
Journal of the Royal Musical Association 1986-2003, 2000- (1 year delay for most current issue) and in print P780.5/R888p
Music & Letters 1997- (1 year delay for most current issue) and in print P780.5/M987
Music Analysis 1998-2008, 1982-1999 and in print P781/M987
Musical Quarterly 1915-1999, 2002- (1 year delay for most current issue) and in print P780.5/M988
Musicology Australia 1970-2007 and in print P780.5/M989
Musikforschung in print P780.01/M987
Nineteenth Century Music 1997- (1 year delay for most current issue) and in print P780.9034/N714
Revue de Musciologie 1922-2004 and in print P780/R4545
Rivista Italiana di Musicologia in print P780/R625
Yearbook of Traditional Music 1981-2004 and in print P781.1/Y39

Music collections at UNE

Dixson Library (on the main UNE campus) has a large collection of books and journals on music, plus musical scores, on the lower ground floor.

Gordon Athol Anderson Music Collection of books, journals, manuscripts and microfilms, including specialised medieval material. There is restricted access to this collection located in Dixson Library.

Music Resource Centre in the CB Newling building near the Armidale CBD. There is a large collection of scores and recordings available for loan. The opening hours are:
Monday 8.45am-12.30pm
Tuesday 1.00pm-3.30pm
Wednesday 1.00pm-3.30pm
Thursday 8.45am-12.30pm

Web sites and Internet resources

Andante Ostensibly an e-magazine, but this website includes a searchable reference section, archives of essays and articles, profile pages, and a well-organised links site.
Balungan A scholary and artistic journal, online and in print at Call Number P781.759/B198.
American Gamelan Institute Gamelan music of all kinds, in Indonesia and around the world. Online and in print with scores, monographs, audio and video recordings.
Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music
Free Printable Music on the Web
Historic American Sheet Music from Duke University.
Journal of Seventeenth Century Music A refereed forum for scholarly studies of the musical cultures of the seventeenth century.
K-12 Resources for Music Educators This site is aimed at primary and secondary classroom music teachers and students. This page is slow to load.
MuseData: an Electronic Library of Classical Music Scores from Stanford University
The Music Council of Australia Information about the Council and useful links
Music Research Databases Worldwide Internet Research Sources.
Music Search A music only search engine for the net.
Music Theory Online A journal of criticism, commentary, research and scholarship, this e-journal has a dissertation index, as well as links to other music journals online.
NFRAM National Networked Facility for Research in Australian Music.
Online Music Scores
La Trobe Medieval Music Database A useful online database on medieval music, including bibliographies on pieces and individual composers.
WLSCM Web Library of Seventeenth-Century Music
World Music Central Despite its name, this an an e-journal which distributes world music information.