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- ERIC (via EBSCOhost)
Indexes scholarly journals and magazines in all areas of education, from early intervention (birth to age three), preschool, K-12 (public and private), and higher education. Includes bilingual, special, gifted, and computer education.
1966-present.
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Some full-text available via UConn Links. Access via EBSCO interface. Search together with PsycINFO or Academic Search Premier.
Also includes child development, classroom techniques, computer education, counseling and testing, administration, arts and music education, and library science.
Summarizes unpublished documents such as curriculum guides, dissertations, opinion papers, conference proceedings, program descriptions, standards, and tests.
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- International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP)
Indexes over 400 music journals (scholarly, applied, music education, and popular music), plus
New York Times and
Washington Post features and obituaries.
Full summaries 1996-present. Some journals go back to inception. .
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IIMP is updated monthly and is often more up-to-date than the other music databases. (It is not as good for pre-1996 literature; see comments below.) It includes citations and abstracts to English and non-English language articles from over 20 countries and covers a broad scope of research from performance, theory, composition, and history, to music education, jazz, ethnomusicology, popular music, and musical theater. It does not contain searchable full-text articles, but it has links from many citations to full-text articles in other databases to which UConn subscribes. IIMP is best suited for finding articles written 1996-present:
- 1996-present: Summaries of articles in over 400 journals. These include subject headings and abstracts that give further details and offer additional searchable keywords for access to information.
- Pre-1996: Citations to over 140 periodicals (about 90 go back to inception). These have only article author, article title, journal, date, etc., but no summaries. Keyword searches on specific topics may not find older articles since there are no subject headings or abstracts. However, this resource is useful for verifying known citations of older articles or authors.
IIMP is compatible with EndNote, ProCite, Reference Manager and RefWorks. Users can export citations into these management tools from the 'selected records' page (accessible by following the ?selected records? link) and can also use them to search IIMP via Z39.50.
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- Music Index Online
Identifies articles in over 700 music journals. Covers classical, jazz, popular, folk, and world music, including musicology, ethnomusicology, theory, applied and professional topics, music education, and the music industry. 1976-present.
1976-present.
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Comprehensively indexes scholarly, applied, music education, and popular music journals from over 40 countries, including non-English languages.
- Covers all styles and genres of music.
- Provides citations and broad subject headings, with selected links to full-text articles in JSTOR.
- Indexes letters, book and record reviews, first performances, and obituaries, and other critical details.
- The online version (updated quarterly) covers 1976-present. The print version (Music Ref. ML 118 .M84) goes back to 1949.
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- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
Indexes every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations.
1861-present; full-text 1997 to present.
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- PsycINFO
Scholarly articles in psychology. Includes medicine, psychiatry, education, social work, law, criminology, social science, and organizational behavior. From the American Psychological Association.
1872-present.
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Covers the academic, research and practice literature from over 45 countries in more than 30 languages. PsycINFO includes relevant materials from related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, education, social work, law, criminology, social science, and organizational behavior.
Indexes journals, dissertations, book chapters, books, technical reports, and other documents.
Subjects:
- Business (advertising & marketing)
- Communication Sciences
- Education
- Medicine
- Psychiatry
- Psychology
- Sociology
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