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Find Older Journal Articles
(a.k.a Retrospective Periodical Literature)

Retrospective Periodical Indexes

• Music Index (print version) -- Goes back to 1949. Music Ref. ML 118 .M84.

• International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) -- Has citations back to inception for about ninety periodicals (seventy of which are not in JSTOR), but these do not include subject headings or abstracts. It helps if you know some key words from the citation (e.g., author, article title, journal title, or date.) However, if you are searching for articles on a particular topic, the only keywords are the ones that appear in the articles' titles, and those may not be descriptive enough to help you discover the articles. (Other resources on this page may be better for subject searching.)

• Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1906. Babbidge Ref. AI 3 .P72. nineteenth-century general periodical literature, including citations and indices for items such as newspapers, periodicals, books, and government documents.

• Reader's Guide Retrospective 1890-1982. Indexes the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the U.S. and reflects the history of twentieth-century America. Good for finding older articles that pre-date the music periodical indexes.

Find Hidden Citations in the Journal Literature

• Full-text online resources -- Full-text articles online often include footnotes and bibliographies with citations to older research. JSTOR is an example of this. It provides full-text electronic backfiles of core scholarly journals back to inception, including 36 music titles. Many of those full-text articles include citations to other older articles that appear in additional journals.

• Print or electronic articles in general often include citations to older research.

• If you are interested in a particular journal or magazine, try to figure out where it was indexed in its earlier years. For example, if you know the title of a journal, do a Journal Title search in HOMER. Look at the journal's full record; it will often say “indexed by.” You can then look up those indexes in HOMER (which will usually point you to the Babbidge Library) or online. Try Harper’s as an example.

• Also, searching in HOMER may come up with electronic versions. Try, for example, New York Evening Post. That leads to a database called Early American Newspapers (1690-1876) where you can search the full text.

Find Citations in Encyclopedias and Books

• Books often have bibliographies and footnotes with citations to older materials.

• Book-length bibliographies on specific topics include citations to older material.

• Grove Music (print or online versions) and other encyclopedias often include citations to older materials in their articles.

• RIPM -- Ask the librarian about this index of nineteenth-century music periodicals.

• To identify other resources for older articles, consult Duckles's Music Reference and Research Materials: An Annotated Bibliography. Music Ref. ML 113 .D83 1997.

• Ask the music librarian about other bibliographies and indexes for finding older articles.

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