Collection Development and Strategies Department
Featured Database: Oxford Music Online
You can use databases to easily find organized collections of articles, journals, news, streaming videos, primary sources, data, and more!
- This month, we highlight one of our favorite music reference databases: Oxford Music Online.
What’s in it?
- The Oxford Music Online database features extensive coverage to the Grove Music Online music encyclopedia, the New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz among many other offerings. Resources range from deep dives into jazz, hip-hop, and indigenous musical traditions to dedicated projects on Women and Gender in Music. The database provides over 50,000 peer-reviewed articles that reflect the full, diverse spectrum of global sound.
Why should you use it?
- Oxford Music Online provides citable, stable, and peer-reviewed content that meets the highest academic standards. It saves researchers hours of work by providing curated bibliographies at the end of every entry, effectively acting as a pre-vetted bibliography for any music-related topic you can imagine.
Who should use it?
- Ethnomusicology students, cultural historians, and educators looking to diversify their course curriculum and provide students with a more inclusive view of music history!
Why use a database?
When you use a specific database, rather than a search engine or discovery tool, you often can find more relevant sources. For example, subject databases include sources about that subject only, rather than a general search engine or discovery tool that includes information about everything. This way you don’t have to wade through thousands of irrelevant results!
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