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Finding Important Music-Related
Articles in Social Science Databases:
Effective Online Searching in an
Interdisciplinary World
Darwin F. ScottAssistant Director for Research and Instruction,
Creative Arts & HumanitiesLibrary and Technology Services
Brandeis University
Music Library AssociationAnnual Meeting
New Port, Rhode IslandFebruary 22, 2008
• All resources tested for music content as late as 2/21/08.
• Extent of significant music coverage varies from resource to resource and will be highly selective.
• With focused searching and limited expectations, these resources reveal important articles on music not found in the standard music resources.
• Study based on electronic resources accessible to the Brandeis University community.
• This is a selective and subjective evaluation not based on any scientific statistical analysis—a work in progress.
• Subject areas surveyed: Sociology, Psychology, Anthropology, and Business.
Parameters and Criteria for This Presentation
Resources:
SocINDEX with Fulltext (EBSCO)
Sociological Abstracts (H. W. Wilson via OCLC)
Sociology: Music and Society
• Popular culture and music • Gender and music
• Mass media and music • Music and society
• Ethnic issues and music • Entertainment industry
• Music and the environment
• Produced by EBSCO.
• Features more than 1,918,000 records with subject headings from a sociological thesaurus compiled by experts.
• Contains full text for 428 "core" coverage journals from 1908, and 163 "priority" coverage journals.
• Contains abstracts for 845+ "core" coverage journals dating from 1895, plus data mined from 670+ "priority" coverage journals and 2,800 "selective" coverage journals.
• Includes full text, abstracts, and indexing for select books, monographs, and conference papers.
• Most recent date of articles with music* search: March 2008.
SocINDEX with Full Text
SocINDEX with Full Text — music* as Keyword Search
7,113 academic articles with music* keyword search.
• COUNTRY music -- Social aspects• ENVIRONMENTAL music• MUSIC• MUSIC, Influence of• MUSIC -- Physiological effect• MUSIC -- Psychological aspects• MUSIC therapy• MUSICIANS• POPULAR music• RAP (Music)• MUSICAL theater• MUSICALS• WOMEN musicians
A Few of the Many Music Subject Entries in SocIndex
• Produced by H. W. Wilson Company (available through a variety of portals, including OCLC FirstSearch).
• Covers concepts, theories, and methodologies in all areas of the social sciences, overlapping anthropology, political science, economics, psychology, geography, and law.
• Indexes 646 English-language journals.
• Includes over 964,000 records as of 2/15/08.
• Coverage: citations from 1983; abstracts from 1994.
• Most recent date of articles with music* search: February 2008.
Social Sciences Abstracts
Social Sciences Abstracts — An Intriguing Recent Article NOT in SocIndex
Very precise music subject analysis.
Resources:
PsycARTICLES (EBSCO)
PsycINFO (EBSCO)
Psychology
Music and the Mind
• Music perception • Music cognition
• Music therapy • Music and society
• Music education • Music and the emotions
• Produced by the American Psychological Association (APA).
• Offered by EBSCO.
• Contains more than 122,000 articles from 60 journals.
• 49 titles published by the APA and its imprint, the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF).
• 11 titles from allied organizations.
• Includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal.
• Coverage spans 1894 to present; nearly all APA journals go back to volume 1, issue 1.
• Most recent date of articles with music* search: January 2008.
PsycARTICLES
• Produced by the American Psychological Association (APA).
• Contains nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s.
• 97 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed.
• Journal coverage, which spans 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 2,100 periodicals in more than 25 languages.
• Recent date of articles with music* search: February 2008.
PsycINFO
PsycINFO — searches on subject “music perception”
1,112 hits on music perception
Indexes psychological music journals.
Resources:
AnthroSource
Anthropology Plus (OCLC)
Anthropology
Music and the World
• Ethnomusicology • World music
• Music and culture • Music and society
• Developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA).
• Contains 15 of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications, including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, and Medical Anthropology Quarterly.
• Latest date when searching “music”: Dec. 2007 (with abstracts).
AnthroSource
AnthroSource — Advanced Search Screen
Uses “stemming” for search words—Anthrosource searches for words
similar to the search word. There is no truncation symbol.
AnthroSource — Advanced Search Screen
Uses “stemming” for search words—Anthrosource searches for words
similar to the search word. There is no truncation symbol.
4,554 results with “music” search.
• Available from OCLC FirstSearch.
• Described as the world’s most comprehensive, focused index of bibliographic materials from the late 1800s to today in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology; ethnology, archaeology, folklore, and material culture; and interdisciplinary studies.
• Combines Anthropological Index (Royal Anthropological Institute) and Anthropological Literature (Harvard University’s Tozzer Library).
Anthropology Plus
“Borderland Pop” Search in RILM and Music Index(combined search via EBSCO)
“Borderland Pop” is not in RILM or the Music Index.
Resources:
EconLit (EBSCO)
Business Source Premier (EBSCO)
Economics
Music and Business
• The music business • Copyright
• Music festivals • Famous performers
• Environmental music • Recording industry
• Sponsored by the American Economic Association.
• Considered to be the world’s foremost source of citations and abstracts for the literature of economics back to 1969, with links to full-text articles.
• Uses the complex Journal of Economics classification system and a controlled vocabulary of keywords
• Latest date of articles with music* search: October 2007.
EconLit
• Produced by EBSCO.
• Updated daily.
• Provides full text for more than 2,300 journals, including more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications.
• Described as the “most used business research database.”
• Latest date of articles from music* search: March 2008.
Business Source Premier
Business Source Premier — Search on downloading music in Academic Journals
99 articles, including all three downloading articles in EconLit.
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