Subject Guides: Music 204 & 308: Jazz: Journals & Databases

Selected jazz journals available in the library

Just Jazz Guitar by Ed Benson, editor. Just jazz guitar : the publication for the archtop and jazz guitar enthusiast. Includes publication of new compositions, in standard and tablature notation.
Call Number: ML 1 .J87
Jazz Times by Evan Haga JazzTimes is an American magazine devoted to jazz. Published 10 times a year, it was founded in 1970 by Ira Davidson Sabin.
Call Number: ML 1 .R232
Jazz Journal by JJ Publishing Formerly Jazz Journal International.
Call Number: ML 5 .J385
Jazz Magazine Published in Paris. In French.
Call Number: ML 5 .J39x

More Journals

31 journals that contain reference to jazz music.

Online Journals

Journal of Jazz Studies Journal of the Rutgers University Institute of Jazz Studies. Current issues are online. Back issues held in Music stacks.
Call Number: ML 1 .J5x
Current Research in Jazz Current Research in Jazz is an online open access journal designed to publish peer-reviewed articles of original jazz research. In addition to shorter articles of a scholarly nature, it publishes bibliographies, indices, chronologies, and other research aids to serve and support jazz scholarship.
Jazziz Quarterly magazine of jazz culture.

Recommended Databases

RIPM Jazz This link opens in a new window A searchable collection of 105 U.S. full-text jazz journals and magazines, RIPM JAZZ PERIODICALS offers access to an essential documentary resource of out-of-print and rarely accessible journal issues, with complete publication runs for some titles. It constitutes an almost daily chronicle of American jazz culture as seen through the eyes of its contemporaries, 1914-2000.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window Alternate title: International Repertory of Music Literature (RILM) Abstracts (EBSCO). Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale (RILM) is a comprehensive bibliography of writings on music, serving the global music research community. Today RILM has over 500,000 records in 215 languages from 151 countries. For additional information see http://www.rilm.org/index.php
Music Periodicals (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window Indexes music periodicals and feature music articles and obituaries. Formerly International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP)
Music Index (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window 1976 to present: Indexes approximately 800 international music periodicals covering historic, ethnographic, and musicological data. Includes more than one million citations, with many reviews. Updated quarterly.
RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals Online Archive with Full Text (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window RIPM was established to provide access to eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century periodical literature dealing with music. The RIPM Index contains citation inforamtion for over 140 journals. Accessed through the RIPM Retrospective Index, the Archive is the only extensive collection available online for music periodicals dating from the Early Romantic to the Modern Period. The Archive contains the full-text of 70 rarely available journals selected by international specialists.
Readers' Guide Retrospective (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window 1890-1982. Indexes the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States. Subjects covered include archaeology, astronomy, biographies, business, education, environment, fine arts, foreign affairs, history, journalism, literature, medicine, news, popular culture, religion, science, and travel.

Other Useful Indexes

Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 10,000 journals, including over 9,000 peer-reviewed titles. Academic Search Ultimate offers access to resources cited in key subject indexes. The combination of academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos meets the needs of scholars in virtually every discipline ranging from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, law and literacy to mathematics, pharmacology, womens studies, zoology and more.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI): Web of Science This link opens in a new window A citation index for the Arts & Humanities. Database coverage includes the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It fully covers 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and indexes individually selected relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals. Provides access to current information and retrospective data from 1975 to the present.
Audio Engineering Society Electronic Library This link opens in a new window The Audio Engineering Society Electronic Library contains most of the Convention Preprints, Conference Papers, and Journal Articles originally published by the Audio Engineering Society between 1953 and 2003. The library contains over 10,000 papers and/or articles. Each of these documents has been stored in Adobe Acrobat(r) PDF format, preserving the highest possible degree of fidelity to the appearance of the document as it was originally published, while also permitting full-text and field searching.

Bibliographie des Musikschrifttums The Bibliographie des Musikschrifttums online (Bibliography of Music Literature on-line) is an international and interactive bibliography of literature on music. Currently, BMS online has more than 300,000 records of literature on music, provides bibliographic data from 1950 to the present.
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BMS includes monographs, articles and reviews from journals, Festschriften, congress proceedings, yearbooks, anthologies and essays from critical reports. Main sources for the BMS editorial staff are national bibliographies, journals, monographs and subject bibliographies. Furthermore, contributions from journals with an interdiscplinary view on music are considered for inclusion. Per annum we check some 600 sources and add approximately 10,000 titles.
BYU Library List of News Resources An expansive list of links to major local, national, international, and historical news resources available.
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Includes:

* Factiva
* IPL Online Newspapers
* Keesing's World News Archive
* LexisNexis Academic -- News
* Los Angeles Times (ProQuest)
* Newslink
* Newspaper Source (EBSCO)
* Newspapers (ProQuest)
* Wall Street Journal (1889 to present)
* World News Connection
* Daily Herald
* Deseret News
* Salt Lake Tribune
* Utah Digital Newspapers
* CRL's Foreign Newspapers Database
* EFE English Language Service (ELS)
* EFE World News Service (Spanish language)
* 19th Century U.S. Newspaper Digital Archive (Gale)
* American Periodical Series Online 1741-1900 (ProQuest - Full text)
* Chicago Tribune (1849 - 1986)
* Christian Science Monitor (1908 - 1994)
* CRL's CCC Camp Newspapers Database
* Historical Newspapers (ProQuest)
* New York Times Archive (1851-2004)
* Times (London) Digital Archive (1785-1985) (Gale)
* CRL's U.S. Ethnic Newspapers Database
* Ethnic NewsWatch (ProQuest)
Canadian Music Periodical Index CMPI is an index of articles from Canadian music periodicals. CMPI is a free service provided by the Library and Archives Canada. Texts of articles are not available from this site, but can be obtained through interlibrary loan at your local library. The CMPI database includes over 37 000 entries on articles dating from the late-19th century to the present day. 630 Canadian music journals, newsletters and magazines are represented here, almost 200 of which are currently active and conti

ERIC (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window 1967+ ERIC, the U.S. Department of Education Resource Information Center databases, contains indexing and abstracts from thousands of research and technical reports in the Resources In Education Index (RIE) and from more than 750 education and education-related journals in the Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). In addition, selected full text articles are available for thousands of ERIC digest records. Updated quarterly.
Humanities Source (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window The collection includes full text for more than 1,400 journals, with citations to over 3.5 million articles, including book reviews. Coverage in Humanities Source includes worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought.
Performing Arts Periodicals (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window Indexes and abstracts more than 140 international periodicals covering nearly all aspects of the world of performing arts. Formerly International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA)
JSTOR This link opens in a new window JSTOR focuses on humanities, social science, and more recently, science titles which have proven themselves vital to these disciplines and which have many years of publication, in some cases going back to the 19th century. Also searches ARTstor.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window Indexes the full-text of over 200 scholarly journals in humanities, social sciences and mathematics.
WorldCat (FirstSearch) This link opens in a new window WorldCat Advanced Search

Google Scholar Search

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