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

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. Parameters and Criteria for This Presentation

Resources: SocINDEX with Fulltext (EBSCO) Sociological Abstracts (H. W. Wilson via OCLC) Sociology: Music and Society Popular culture and music Gender and music Mass media and music Music and society Ethnic issues and music Entertainment industry Music and the environment

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 SocINDEX with Full Text

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.

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 of the Many Music Subject Entries in SocIndex

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

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 Most recent date of articles with music* search: February Social Sciences Abstracts

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.

Resources: PsycARTICLES (EBSCO) PsycINFO (EBSCO) Psychology Music and the Mind Music perception Music cognition Music therapy Music and society Music education Music and the emotions

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 PsycARTICLES

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”

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 PsycINFO

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

Resources: AnthroSource Anthropology Plus (OCLC) Anthropology Music and the World Ethnomusicology World music Music and culture Music and society

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 (with abstracts). AnthroSource

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 Uses “stemming” for search words— Anthrosource searches for words similar to the search word. There is no truncation symbol. 4,554 results with “music” search.

AnthroSource — Journals with Articles Dealing with Some Aspect of Music

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). Anthropology Plus

Anthropoloy Plus — Search on music* 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.

Resources: EconLit (EBSCO) Business Source Premier (EBSCO) Economics Music and Business The music business Copyright Music festivals Famous performers Environmental music Recording industry

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 EconLit

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

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 Business Source Premier

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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