Music literature full-text and bibliographic databases

Core databases for finding music literature, including journal articles:

• Music Periodicals Database (formerly IIMP - International Index to Music Periodicals)
  Covers both scholarly and popular music journals for a wide range of subjects: classical music and opera, jazz, popular, and folk music, sound recording, ethnomusicology, music education, and instruments. Emphasis on articles from 1996 to the present, but includes indexing and abstracts for certain journals from 1874. Includes full-text content for many journals.
• RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text
  Comprehensive scholarly bibliography of writings on music, international in scope, from 1900 to the present. Covers a wide range of publications: journal articles, conference proceedings, books, dissertations, and essay collections. Includes full-text content from many leading journals, magazines, and newsletters.
• Music Index
  Guide to music periodicals and literature, featuring digitized content from 1970 to present. Coverage includes articles about music, musicians, instruments, and the music industry, for both classical and popular worlds of music. Provides citations for journal articles, reviews of books, recordings, and performances, obituaries, and news articles.
• JSTOR: Advanced Search (or Basic Search)

General, interdisciplinary, and specialty databases for finding music literature:

• AES: Audio Engineering Society
• Albert Schatz Collection of Opera Libretti (Library of Congress)
• Bibliographie des Musikschrifttums Online
• Canadian Music Periodical Index
  Provides citations to articles on musical activity in Canada from the late 19th century to around 2010, and to articles on international music and musicians published in Canadian periodicals from 1999 to around 2010. Includes more than 37,000 articles from 600+ Canadian music journals, newsletters, and magazines.
• Concert Programmes
  Search this database to find locations and descriptions of collections of concert programs held in European libraries, archives and museums.
• Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive
• Europeana
• France: Musiques, Cultures, 1789-1918
• Gallica, la bibliothèque numérique de la Bibliothèque nationale de France
  Digital library of Bibliothèque nationale de France and its partners. Contains millions of digitized documents in a wide range of formats: books, newspapers, periodicals, scores, sound recordings, photographs, images, and maps. Excellent resource for accessing historical, mainly francophone materials that are no longer subject to copyright.
• Google Scholar
• Hathi Trust
• Internet Archive
• Opening Night! Opera & Oratorio Premieres
• Oxford Bibliographies: Music
  Peer-reviewed and annotated book-length bibliographies.
• Oxford Handbooks Online: Music
• RIdIM (Répertoire International d’Iconographie Musicale)
• RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals with Full Text (1760-1966)
• Rock's Back Pages Library

• Digital Resources for Musicology (DRM)
• MusRef: Music and dance bibliography and reference (BYU)
• Musicologie.org : Références en musicologie
• Virtual Library of Musicology (ViFaMusik)
  Portal for music and musicology, providing links to numerous sites offering scholarly research and online resources. Advanced search options enable simultaneous searching across multiple catalogues.

• McGill users only
• Open access resource
• Free resource
• In-library use
• Catalogue record