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- What is LumenPlus? A user guide for LumenPlus, the Regis Lbrary's instance of the EBSCO Discovery Service.
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These general interest resources are your best bet for researching music-related topics:
- Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new windowA favorite for the social sciences, humanities, fine arts, medicine, and education, ASP indexes 8,200 periodicals. Full-text articles from 3,750 peer-reviewed, scholarly journals are found here, plus a number of popular sources.
- Academic OneFile This link opens in a new windowThis indexes 12,500 periodicals in the Social Sciences, Humanities, Arts, Physical Sciences, Medicine and Education, with 5,400 titles in full-text. The sources are a mix of academic, professional, and popular periodicals and newspapers.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowThis is an archived collection of 150 e-journals in language & literature, music, art & art history, religion, history, and Asian, Jewish, and African-American studies. The journals are a nearly complete run from vol. 1 up to 4 years prior to the current issue. The individual journals can also be located through Lumen.
Music-Audio Collections
These collections contain audio files to which you can listen:
- American Song This link opens in a new windowThis audio archive has 57,000 tracks of songs by and about, miners, immigrants, slaves, American Indians, pioneers, and cowboys. The Civil Rights movement, political campaigns, anti-war protests, and other events are included. Also here is a vast collection of African-American Songs from blues, jazz, gospel, ragtime, and other traditions.
- Classical Music Library This link opens in a new windowThis database is an audio library of more than 3,600 albums of classical music from labels around the world. It’s searchable by composer, conductor, genre, instruments, ensemble, with composer biographies and opus lists.
- Contemporary World Music This link opens in a new windowAn extensive audio library of traditional and contemporary music, this database allows you to search performers, ensembles, or browse through many global genres.
- Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new windowThis is a searchable audio library of more than 36,000 discs with 514,000 tracks. Classical music is the largest part, but Naxos also has music from shows, films, and some examples of world music.
- Naxos Music Library Jazz This link opens in a new windowJazz and Blues music from more than 2,300 albums can be heard here, including the deep Fantasy Jazz catalog. Naxos has over 500 jazz artists on 22,600 tracks.
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Full Text Finder
If the full text of an article isn't available from the database you're searching, click on the Full Text Finder link that appears below the citation or abstract to see if it is available elsewhere. A new tab or window will open when you click the Full Text Finder link, and all linked options for accessing the full-text document will be listed. Links on this page are formatted to prompt the Regis login for subscription access. Options may include:
Check for full text at the publisher's site: this link will direct the user to the publisher's Web site while passing through our institutional subscription.- Find this article in full text from EBSCOhost SmartLinks+: this link will connect the user to the resource in our library system that provides full-text.
- Find this article in full text from [database name]: this link will connect the user to a specific database in our system that provides access to the full-text document.
- Request this item through interlibrary loan: if no other options are presented, the user can request a digital copy of the article using the interlibrary loan system.
Is it Scholarly?
- Primary vs. Secondary SourcesHandout by Susan Thomas of the Borough of Manhattan Community College Library.
Search Strategy Worksheet
Use this worksheet for database searching help and to keep a record of your searching history.
Article Quick Links
- Locate a JournalUse this to see if the library owns a specific journal, what years are available, and where it's available.
- Request an Article (Interlibrary Loan)For articles not owned by our library, use interlibrary loan to request a copy.