Search Music & Lit Simultaneously
Note: Because of the way JSTOR searches, constructing your searches is very important. I'll suggest some methods in class, and see the "Search Tips" sections of this page.
- Academic Search Complete (1975-present) This link opens in a new window Covers topics in most areas of academic study. Full-text provided for over 10,000 publications, with over 7,850 peer-reviewed. Abstracts and indexing available for over 13,780 journals in the collection.
Note: A great starting place for article searches.
- Primo This link opens in a new window Primo is the Washington University Libraries’ discovery layer search tool, meaning it searches across hundreds of catalogs, indexes, and databases. Primo searches Washington University Libraries’ Classic Catalog; articles, journals, and theses; Research Guides; and Open Scholarship as well as articles, reference materials, and e-books from various publishers and aggregators.
Note: Searches for articles and books simultaneously. Results can be both helpful and overwhelming. Applying limiters (left-hand side) is very important.
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Find Search Terms, Books, and Journals - The Catalog
Note: You can also access Classic Catalog from WashU Libraries homepage.
Find Literary Criticism and More
- Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography with Full Text This link opens in a new windowFrom the Modern Language Association (MLA), this resource combines an extensive collection of full-text journals with the definitive index for the study and teaching of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric, writing studies, folklore, film, theater, and other dramatic arts. Includes the MLA Thesaurus and the MLA Directory of Periodicals.
- Literature Online (LION) This link opens in a new windowA fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and key criticism and reference resources. Covers the 8th century to the present. Learn more about this database
Find Music Criticism and More
- Music Periodicals Database This link opens in a new windowAccess to about 220 full-text titles and citations sourced from more than 600 music periodicals. Covers music, music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theatre, theory, popular music forms and composition - journal articles. Learn more about this database
- RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text This link opens in a new windowRILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text is a comprehensive bibliography of writings about music featuring citations, abstracts and indexes. It covers nearly one and a half million publications from the early 19th century to the present on traditional music, popular music, jazz, classical music, and related subjects, enhanced with the full text of over 260 periodicals. New titles are being added annually.
