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Music: Finding Resources

This guide provides students with recommended resources for conducting research on topics within the Music Department. The topics range from musicianship, music theory, and music history.

Search Resources

Use OneSearch to find print and online books, articles, and other types of sources. After you search, use the filters to limit your results by source type, date, and more.

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For more search options go to Advanced Search.

Need help?

For do-it-yourself help, watch the OneSearch introduction video:

Music Specific Databases

The authoritative resource for music research with over 52,000 articles written by nearly 9,000 scholars charting the diverse history, theory and cultures of music around the globe.

Databases for Scholarly Articles and More

The following databases are good places to search for scholarly articles (and other types of sources) on a wide range of topics. From off campus, you will be prompted to log in with your Pipeline username and password.

For more databases with scholarly articles from specific disciplines or subject areas (such as communication, nursing, or psychology), see the A-Z Databases list and select the subject area you want.

Video: Choosing a Database

Choosing a Database

This tutorial covers how to determine your assignment’s information need, how to locate the different types of library databases, and how to determine if a specific database meets your needs.

If you have trouble accessing this tutorial from off campus, try logging into My.SBCC.edu in a different browser tab, then reloading this page. If that doesn't work, follow the direct link above to open the tutorial outside of this guide.

Tutorials Search Techniques

Search Techniques, Part 1

This tutorial covers strategies for searching library resources effectively.

If you have trouble accessing this tutorial from off campus, try logging into My.SBCC.edu in a different browser tab, then reloading this page. If that doesn't work, follow the direct link above to open the tutorial outside of this guide.

Search Techniques, Part 2

This tutorial covers search tricks that can improve your search results in almost any library database.

If you have trouble accessing this tutorial from off campus, try logging into My.SBCC.edu in a different browser tab, then reloading this page. If that doesn't work, follow the direct link above to open the tutorial outside of this guide.