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Music History I: Searching for Articles

Limiting your search

Limiting your search:

Most databases allow you to "limit"  your search by:

  • Choosing a date range
  • Choosing to search only for scholarly or peer reviewed articles
  • Choosing to search only for results that have the full text attached
  • Other options, such as subject, language, or type of publication (newspaper, journal, magazine, etc.)

Selecting one or all of these options will help make your search more specific and reduce the number of results.

Make sure you look for and use these options no matter which database you search.

               

Searching for articles on a topic

 

Searching in ZipSearch

ZipSearch is a tool that searches in many different databases simultaneously, including those that contain Music related content, such as:

  • Academic Search Complete
  • Education Research Complete
  • Electronic Journal Center
  • ERIC
  • Humanities International Complete
  • Humanities Full Text
  • Music Index
  • PsychInfo
  • RILM

LEARN ABOUT ZipSearch

**Note about ZipSearch

The default settings are to search *everything* and to only show direct links to *full text*

  • To search only articles, check the box marked "academic journals" under "source type"
  • To see citations that don't have full text attached, uncheck "available in library collection"