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Databases

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
Provides image and full text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other fields of the humanities and social sciences. Consult the online tables of contents for holdings, as coverage varies for each title.

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Project Muse This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press and other university presses and scholarly societies in the humanities and social sciences
Project Muse is a searchable database that provides access to the full text of journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press and other university presses in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. Consult the online tables of contents for holdings, as coverage varies for each title. As of 6/2004, includes links to JSTOR.
Performing Arts Periodicals Database This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to scholarly and popular material from all aspects of the performing arts, from scholarly studies to snapshots of popular culture, 1864-present.
1864-present; draws its content from scholarly and popular performing arts periodicals, and also indexes a variety of documents such as biographical profiles, conference papers, obituaries, interviews, discographies, reviews and events. Performing Arts covers nearly all aspects of the performing arts, from scholarly studies to snapshots of popular culture.
Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to primary sources for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, 1880-2000.
1880-2000; Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive is an archival research resource containing the essential primary sources for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through to 2000. The core US and UK trade magazines covering film, music, broadcasting and theater are included, together with film fan magazines and music press titles. Magazines have been scanned cover-to-cover in high-resolution color, with granular indexing of all articles, covers, ads and reviews.
RIPM Jazz Periodicals This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to 105 rare, full text jazz periodicals consisting initially of American publications, 1914-2006.
1914 to 2006; RIPM Jazz debuts with 105 rare, full text periodicals consisting initially of American (U. S.) publications. Forthcoming updates will include periodicals published in Europe and Canada.
Readers' Guide Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Offers indexing and abstracting for more than 450 periodicals, 1983-present
1983-present; Readers' Guide Abstracts includes abstracts and indexing of over 450 periodicals. Subject coverage includes antiques, arts, business, computers, education, entertainment, film & television, gardening, health & medicine, history, home improvement, literature, news & current events, photography, popular & classical music, politics, popular culture, religion, science, sports & fitness, transportation, travel and much more.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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Provides full-text access to more than 8,500 full text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals.
Current; scholarly, multidisciplinary full text database, designed for the academic community with more than 8,500 full text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals.
MusicID This link opens in a new window
Current; Music ID is an academic research tool that utilizes powerful analytics to compile global music industry data. Incorporating 5,452 different charts spanning 74 countries, Music ID Data provides access to perpetually-updated, week-to-week information on iTunes downloads, Spotify and Apple Music streams, and Shazam searches, as well as contemporary and historical data from Billboard, the Official Charts Company, GfK, and more.
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Current; Music ID is an academic research tool that utilizes powerful analytics to compile global music industry data. Incorporating 5,452 different charts spanning 74 countries, Music ID Data provides access to perpetually-updated, week-to-week information on iTunes downloads, Spotify and Apple Music streams, and Shazam searches, as well as contemporary and historical data from Billboard, the Official Charts Company, GfK, and more.
Qwest TV This link opens in a new window
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A subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service featuring jazz and related eclectic music
Qwest TV was created by Quincy Jones and is a subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service featuring jazz and related eclectic music.
Music Online: Listening This link opens in a new window
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A multidisciplinary collection of audiovisual content from more than 500 music producers and distributors around the world.
Music Online: Listening brings together on a single cross-searchable platform the entire suite of Alexander Street Press music products to which the Brown University Library subscribes. Databases include:
- American Music
- Classical Music Library
- Contemporary World Music
- Jazz Music Library
- Popular Music Library
- Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries

Billboard in ABI/Inform
The Spirituals Database
Chicago Manual of Style Online
The seventeenth edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. Includes many updates for citation of electronic and internet sources.
Charrise Barron, "Bridging Liturgies in the Black Lives Matter Era," Liturgy 35, no. 4 (December 2020)