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Finding Important Music-Related
Articles in Social Science Databases:
Effective Online Searching in an
Interdisciplinary World
Darwin F. Scott
Assistant Director for Research and Instruction,
Creative Arts & Humanities
Library and Technology Services
Brandeis University
Music Library Association
Annual Meeting
New Port, Rhode Island
February 22, 2008
Parameters and Criteria for This Presentation
• All resources tested for music content as late as 2/21/08.
• Extent of significant music coverage varies from resource to
resource and will be highly selective.
• With focused searching and limited expectations, these
resources reveal important articles on music not found in the
standard music resources.
• Study based on electronic resources accessible to the
Brandeis University community.
• This is a selective and subjective evaluation not based on any
scientific statistical analysis—a work in progress.
• Subject areas surveyed: Sociology, Psychology, Anthropology,
and Business.
Sociology: Music and Society
• Popular culture and music
• Mass media and music
• Gender and music
• Music and society
• Ethnic issues and music
• Entertainment industry
• Music and the environment
Resources:
SocINDEX with Fulltext (EBSCO)
Sociological Abstracts (H. W. Wilson via OCLC)
SocINDEX with Full Text
• Produced by EBSCO.
• Features more than 1,918,000 records with subject headings
from a sociological thesaurus compiled by experts.
• Contains full text for 428 "core" coverage journals from 1908,
and 163 "priority" coverage journals.
• Contains abstracts for 845+ "core" coverage journals dating
from 1895, plus data mined from 670+ "priority" coverage
journals and 2,800 "selective" coverage journals.
• Includes full text, abstracts, and indexing for select books,
monographs, and conference papers.
• Most recent date of articles with music* search: March 2008.
SocINDEX with Full Text — music* as Keyword Search
9,219 hits on music* in keyword search
SocINDEX with Full Text — music* as Keyword Search
7,113 academic articles with music* keyword search.
A Few of the Many Music Subject Entries in
SocIndex
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COUNTRY music -- Social aspects
ENVIRONMENTAL music
MUSIC
MUSIC, Influence of
MUSIC -- Physiological effect
MUSIC -- Psychological aspects
MUSIC therapy
MUSICIANS
POPULAR music
RAP (Music)
MUSICAL theater
MUSICALS
WOMEN musicians
A Few Recent and Intriguing Articles in SocIndex: 1
A Few Recent and Intriguing Articles in SocIndex: 2
A Few Recent and Intriguing Articles in SocIndex: 3
A Few Recent and Intriguing Articles in SocIndex: 4
Social Sciences Abstracts
• Produced by H. W. Wilson Company (available
through a variety of portals, including OCLC
FirstSearch).
• Covers concepts, theories, and methodologies in all
areas of the social sciences, overlapping
anthropology, political science, economics,
psychology, geography, and law.
• Indexes 646 English-language journals.
• Includes over 964,000 records as of 2/15/08.
• Coverage: citations from 1983; abstracts from 1994.
• Most recent date of articles with music* search:
February 2008.
Social Sciences Abstracts — Search on music*
3,806 hits on music* in keyword search
Social Sciences Abstracts — An Intriguing Recent Article
NOT in SocIndex
Very precise music
subject analysis.
Psychology
Music and the Mind
• Music perception
• Music therapy
• Music education
• Music cognition
• Music and society
• Music and the emotions
Resources:
PsycARTICLES (EBSCO)
PsycINFO (EBSCO)
PsycARTICLES
• Produced by the American Psychological Association (APA).
• Offered by EBSCO.
• Contains more than 122,000 articles from 60 journals.
• 49 titles published by the APA and its imprint, the Educational
Publishing Foundation (EPF).
• 11 titles from allied organizations.
• Includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and
errata from each journal.
• Coverage spans 1894 to present; nearly all APA journals go back
to volume 1, issue 1.
• Most recent date of articles with music* search: January 2008.
PsycARTICLES — music* as Keyword Search
789 hits on music* in keyword search
PsycARTICLES — music* as Subject Search
359 hits on music as a subject term.
PsycARTICLES — Music Perception as Subject Search
106 records with subject “music perception”
PsycINFO
• Produced by the American Psychological Association
(APA).
• Contains nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of
scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and
dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines,
dating as far back as the 1800s.
• 97 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed.
• Journal coverage, which spans 1887 to present, includes
international material selected from more than 2,100
periodicals in more than 25 languages.
• Recent date of articles with music* search: February 2008.
PsycINFO — Search on music* as Keyword
20,270 hits on music*
PsycINFO — music* Limited by All Journals
15,359 hits on music under “All Journals*
PsycINFO — searches on subject “music perception”
1,112 hits on music perception
Indexes psychological music journals.
PsycINFO — Article Results on “Mozart Effect”
51 articles on “Mozart Effect”
RILM — articles results on “Mozart Effect”
36 results on “Mozart Effect” in English
PsycINFO & RILM — “Mozart Effect” articles compared
Anthropology
Music and the World
• Ethnomusicology
• Music and culture
• World music
• Music and society
Resources:
AnthroSource
Anthropology Plus (OCLC)
AnthroSource
• Developed by the American Anthropological
Association (AAA).
• Contains 15 of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed
publications, including American Anthropologist,
American Ethnologist, Anthropology and Education
Quarterly, and Medical Anthropology Quarterly.
• Latest date when searching “music”: Dec. 2007 (with
abstracts).
AnthroSource — Advanced Search Screen
Uses “stemming” for search words—
Anthrosource searches for words
similar to the search word.
There is no truncation symbol.
AnthroSource — Advanced Search Screen
4,554 results with “music” search.
Uses “stemming” for search words—
Anthrosource searches for words
similar to the search word.
There is no truncation symbol.
AnthroSource — Journals with Articles Dealing
with Some Aspect of Music
Anthropology Plus
• Available from OCLC FirstSearch.
• Described as the world’s most comprehensive,
focused index of bibliographic materials from the
late 1800s to today in the fields of social, cultural,
physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology;
ethnology, archaeology, folklore, and material
culture; and interdisciplinary studies.
• Combines Anthropological Index (Royal
Anthropological Institute) and Anthropological
Literature (Harvard University’s Tozzer Library).
Anthropoloy Plus — Search on music*
8.450 results
from search
on music*
Anthropoloy Plus — Search on music arab*
“Borderland Pop” Search in RILM and Music Index
(combined search via EBSCO)
“Borderland
Pop” is not in
RILM or the
Music Index.
Anthropoloy Plus — Search on music and Mali
Music is not a
subject; only
a title word.
Economics
Music and Business
• The music business
• Copyright
• Music festivals
• Famous performers
• Environmental music
• Recording industry
Resources:
EconLit (EBSCO)
Business Source Premier (EBSCO)
EconLit
• Sponsored by the American Economic Association.
• Considered to be the world’s foremost source of
citations and abstracts for the literature of economics
back to 1969, with links to full-text articles.
• Uses the complex Journal of Economics classification
system and a controlled vocabulary of keywords
• Latest date of articles with music* search: October
2007.
EconLit — Search on *music
421 hits on music*
Note complex
subject
headings
EconLit — Search on “music industry”
EconLit — Music Industry Search Limited to Journal Articles
Note complex
subject
headings
EconLit: Search on Subject “Intellectual Property Rights”
and downloading / music
Business Source Premier
• Produced by EBSCO.
• Updated daily.
• Provides full text for more than 2,300 journals,
including more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business
publications.
• Described as the “most used business research
database.”
• Latest date of articles from music* search: March 2008.
Business Source Premier — Search on music*
196,622 hits on *music!
Business Source Premier — Search on music*
3,234 hits on *music
limited to academic
journals.
Business Source Premier — Search on downloading music
in Academic Journals
99 articles, including all
three downloading
articles in EconLit.
Business Source Premier — Sample Full Record
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