Music Databases

African-American Song Database
African American Song is the first online resource to document the history of African American music in an online music listening service. The collection contains a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others.

URL: http://csu4.classical.com
Grove Music Online
A gateway into music research and the access point for new and forthcoming Oxford music reference products

URL: http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/
International Index To Music Periodicals
IIMP Full Text enables you to search and browse hundreds of music journals covering a broad scope of research from performance, theory and composition to music education, jazz and ethnomusicology. It provides indexing, abstracts and selected full text coverage of the most important music journals - all integrated in one site.

URL: http://iimpft.chadwyck.com/
Naxos Music Library
Naxos Music Library is the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Dacapo catalogues of over 5,000 CD's, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. While listening, you can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists in Naxos's extensive database. All these can be accessible from computers in academic libraries, home or office. Naxos Music Library and all of its contents are owned by Naxos Digital Services Ltd., part of the Hong Kong-based Naxos Group of Companies.

URL: http://ChicagoStateUNI.naxosmusiclibrary.com
Naxos Music Library - Jazz
Naxos Music Library Jazz is a comprehensive collection of Jazz music. It offers close to 20,000 tracks of jazz from over 1,900 albums.

URL: http://ChicagoStateUni.NaxosMusicLibrary.com/Jazz
Oxford Music Online
A gateway into music research and the access point for new and forthcoming Oxford music reference products

URL: http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/

General Interest Databases

Academic Search Complete—is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for over 5,300 scholarly publications, including more than 4,400 peer-reviewed publications. Offers indexing and abstracts for 9,300 journals on nearly every area of academic study.

Gale Virtual Reference Library—is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely at all times.

JSTOR Arts and Sciences 1 (119 titles) is JSTOR’s first collection—includes core journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities, social sciences, ecology, mathematics, and statistics. Arts and Sciences IV (112 titles) has a strong focus on the professions of business, education, and law, and also includes titles in psychology, public policy and administration.

Newsbank—provides full-text articles from the electronic editions of record for nearly 500 U.S. newspapers – including the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Chicago Sun Times.


Music Databases