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Music: Journals & Databases

Relevant databases

A database is a searchable collection of academic literature. It generally contains journal articles but also holds reports, case studies, e-books, book chapters and images which you can use in your studies.

The following databases are just a small number of available databases.

Articles

  • Music Periodicals 
    (offers access to over 600 international music periodicals, of which 140 are full text)
  • Irish Traditional Music Archive
    (contains audio and video material, books and serials with a photographic collection relating to Irish traditional music) 
  • Oxford Music Online 
    (includes Grove Music Online, The Oxford Companion to Music, The Oxford Dictionary of Music and Encyclopedia of Popular Music)

Theses

  • SMI Music Theses Register 
    (fully searchable register of Irish postgraduate theses and dissertations in musicology at PhD, MLitt and MA levels)

A full list of relevant databases for your subject area is available by clicking here.

What is?

An evaluation of professional or academic work by other experts working in the same field.

Open access is a publishing model for scholarly communication that makes research information available to readers at no cost, as opposed to the traditional subscription model in which readers have access to scholarly information by paying a subscription (usually via libraries).

Example:

MIRR is the college's Institutional Repository and is an example of what is available on open access. The repository contains research conducted by MIC lecturers and researchers.

Relevant journals

A journal is an academic publication that publishes articles about research written by experts in the field of study. The list below is a selection of relevant journal titles accessible through MIC Library subscriptions.

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