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Tips, techniques & resources to help with your research papers, projects, artistic and performance study and practice.

Databases for finding articles

  • Start with a broad search and use the drop-down menus and the limiters in the left side-bar to refine your results.
    • You can limit to academic, peer-reviewed journals, magazines or newspapers, or specific types of articles, such as reviews.
  • Online full text is provided in many cases.
  • Where full text not available, links will guide you to print resources or to request that a pdf of the materials be sent to you.
    • This is a free service and most requests can be filled within 48 hours.
  • Watch a video tutorial for more help on using Discover@MU for research plus other useful resources and tip: 

Music databases

It is often helpful to search using music-specific database. Searching a narrower group of journals provides more focus and specialized databases often have search mechanisms tailored to their specific subject:

General databases

Finding Journals

The journals we subscribe to are often most easily found by using the journal finder.

  • This allows you to search a journal title and find where it can be accessed online or in print. You can also browse by discipline or subject.
  • If you've found a citation and are trying to find the full text:
    •  find the journal title and then narrow down by the year, volume, issue, to the table of contents.

Specialized Non-Music Databases