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Music of Ireland

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Books

Books can be found by browsing the Catalogue or the shelves at the following call number:

ML 3654 Irish Music

Journal Articles

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Key databases

The Music Index Online

Index of journal articles about classical and popular music from more than 690 international music periodicals. Includes musicological or organological topics, plus book reviews, record reviews, first performances, and obituaries.

Humanities Index

Humanities Index provides information in the following areas: art, archaeology and classical studies, dance, drama, film, folklore, history, journalism and communications, language and literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology. More than 345 English-language periodicals are indexed.

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America: History and life

Comprises over 450,000 bibliographic entries, providing a research tool for students and researchers of US and Canadian history. The database covers over 2,000 journals published worldwide

Current Contents Connect

The database provides cover to cover indexing of 6,600+ scholarly research journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. The service also incorporates auto alerting features.

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Music Education

Getting Started

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Books

Books can be found by browsing the Catalogue or the shelves at the following call numbers -

MT Music Teaching
L General works on education
LB Theory and practice of teaching

Journal Articles

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Key databases

The Music Index Online

Index of journal articles about classical and popular music from more than 690 international music periodicals. Includes musicological or organological topics, plus book reviews, record reviews, first performances, and obituaries

RILM abstracts of music literature

A bibliography of music literature which cover all aspects of music, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, dance, and music therapy. It also includes other fields as they relate to music, including librarianship, literature, dramatic arts, visual arts, anthropology, sociology, philosophy and physics..

ERIC

A national bibliographic database covering the literature of education. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, ERIC consists of two files: Resources in Education (RIE), covering the document literature, and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE), covering the published journal literature from over 775 periodicals. The database also includes the full text of ERIC Digest records.

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Australian Education Index

Indexes and abstracts articles from published material at all levels of education and related fields. Subject coverage includes curriculum, educational research, information science, librarianship, management, policy administration, psychology, sociology, teaching and training.

Proquest Education Journals

ProQuest education journals links to the full text of 400 journals on education, including primary, secondary, and university-level topics. Formerly known as ProQuest education complete.

PsycINFO

PsycINFO database covers the academic, research and practice literature in psychology from over 45 countries in more than 30 languages. It includes materials from related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, education, social work, law, criminology, social science, and organizational behavior. PsycINFO provides indexes to journals, dissertations, book chapters, books, technical reports.

Current Contents Connect

The database provides cover to cover indexing of 6,600+ scholarly research journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. The service also incorporates auto alerting features

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Web Sites

Popular Music

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Handbooks: 

Facts behind the songs : a handbook of American popular music from the nineties to the '90s

ARIA yearbook / Record Industry Association

Australasian music industry directory

Books

Books can be found by browsing the Catalogue or the shelves at the following call numbers:

M1627 - 1844 Popular and folk music (Scores and recordings)
ML3469 - 3541 Popular music - general
ML3506 Jazz music
ML3521 Blues music
ML3534 Rock music

Journal Articles

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Rock & Roll, counterculture, peace and protest

Contains materials about popular culture in the U.S. and U.K. from 1950 to 1975.

Music Index Online

Index of journal articles about classical and popular music from more that 690 international music periodicals. Includes musicological or organological topics, plus book reviews, record reviews, first performances, and obituaries.

JSTOR

A database established to convert back issues of paper journals into electronic format in core fields. The JSTOR archive of digitised full text journals does not include current issues.

Rock's backpages library

An online database of rock music writing, with material dating from the early 1960s to the present day. The library of articles includes reviews, interviews and features, which are fully searchable and presented in full-text.

Academic Research Library

Includes journals, magazines and newspapers on a broad range of general reference subjects including arts, business, humanities, social sciences, and the sciences. Includes two subsets: Academic research newspapers (including the New York Times and the Wall Street journal) and Academic research periodicals.

Current Contents Connect

The database provides cover to cover indexing of 6,600+ scholarly research journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. The service also incorporates auto alerting features.

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Music

Getting Started

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Handbooks: 

Books can be found by browsing the Catalogue, or the shelves at the following call numbers:

M Music (scores)
ML Literature on music
ML159 - 197 History of music
ML 460 - 1354 Instruments and instrumental music
MT Musical instruction and study

Journal Articles

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Journal Articles: 

Key databases

Music Index Online

Index of journal articles about classical and popular music from more that 690 international music periodicals. Includes musicological or organological topics, plus book reviews, record reviews, first performances, and obituaries

RILM abstracts of music literature

A bibliography of music literature which cover all aspects of music, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, dance, and music therapy. It also includes other fields as they relate to music, including librarianship, literature, dramatic arts, visual arts, anthropology, sociology, philosophy and physics.

RISM online

RISM Series II/A is an annotated index and guide to music manuscripts produced after 1600. It brings together over 380,000 works by more than 18,000 composers into one database.

Classical music library

Classical music library is a classical music service that enables listening and learning at selected library and home computers. It includes recordings, program notes, composer biographies, and images cross-referenced to the recordings.

Naxos music library

Collection of digital music. Comprised of the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Da Capo catalogues, including classical music, historical and nostalgic recordings, jazz, world, folk and Chinese music. Includes notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists.

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Arts & humanities citation index

A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.

JSTOR

Provides full text articles from music journals. All volumes of each title are available except the last few years.

Academic Research Library

Search for coverage of a broad range of subjects including arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests.

Browse all databases for Music

Multimedia
Multimedia: 

Academic Video Online (Select Opera database)

Music
Music: 

Online scores

Classical Scores Library

Alexander Street Press' Classical Scores Library will contain 400,000 pages of classical scores from both in-copyright and public domain editions. The major composers output is represented, as well as many lesser known composers and works. Content includes in-copyright material from Boosey and Hawkes and selected material from the University Music Editions microfilm series.

University of Washington Digital Scores Project

Music Library Digital Scores Collection contains manuscript musical scores dating from the 17th through 19th centuries. The majority of the collection is comprised of 17th and 18th century operas, opera excerpts, and other vocal music.

UCLA Music Scores & Sheet Music Online

From the UCLA Library Collection. Includes jazz and popular scores as well as classical music scores and printed early editions and manuscripts.

Music Australia

Hosted by the National Library of Australia, Music Australia contains Australian scores prior to 1930.

Digital Scores & Libretti, Loeb Music Library, Harvard University

The scores and libretti in the Loeb Music Library Virtual Collection include early editions and manuscript copies of music from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It includes works by J.S. Bach and Bach family members, Mozart, Schubert and other composers, as well as multiple versions of nineteenth century opera scores, seminal works of musical modernism, and music of the Second Viennese School.

IMSLP Petrucci Music Library

The International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) is a project for the creation of a virtual library of public domain music scores based on the wiki principle.

Early Music Online

Early Music Online has digitised 300 of the world's earliest surviving volumes of printed music, held in the British Library. This project has digitised about a half of the British Library's holdings of 16th-century anthologies of printed music, as listed in RISM B/I (Recueils imprimés XVI-XVII siécles). The volumes mainly consist of partbooks of vocal polyphony, but also include some early printed tablatures for keyboard or plucked string instruments.

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

Getting Started

If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:

Handbooks: 

Oxford companion to Aboriginal art and culture

Browsing the shelves:

You can also browse the catalogue or the shelves at the following call numbers:-

DU120 - Aboriginal history, social conditions

LC3501- Aboriginal education

PL7001- 7101 Aboriginal languages

PR8034 - Aboriginal literature

RA563 - Aboriginal Health

Dictionaries: 
Journal Articles

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Journal Articles: 

Key databases

Mura

Catalogue of the AIATSIS Library which contains comprehensive collections of print materials on Australian Indigenous studies.

APA Full Text

Indexing and full text database providing access to journal articles from published material on the social sciences and humanities. APA - Full Text includes all the journal indexing from the Australian Public Affairs Information Service (APAIS) database


Australian Heritage Bibliography

Formerly HERA , indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on Australia's natural and cultural environment- including national parks; endangered species; coasts; forests; wetlands; rivers; geological features; wilderness areas; world heritage sites; aboriginal rock art

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Maps
Statistics
Web Sites

Japanese Studies

Getting Started

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Handbooks: 

Books

Books on Japanses Studies will be found on the Library shelves at various call numbers, for example:

DS833.891.5 History

PL501-699 Language

PL700-889 Literature

You can also use the Library Catalogue keyword search to find books on your topic. Some books are availble online (e-books.)

Dictionaries: 

Dictionary of Japanese history

Biographical dictionary of Japanese literature

For other Japanese-to-English dictionaries held by the library, see this link

For other English-to-Japanese dictionaries held by the library, see this link

Journal Articles

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Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS Online)

The online version of the Bibliography of Asian studies contains more than 410,000 records on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present.

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MLA international bibliography

This database indexes critical materials on modern language, literature, linguistics, and folklore. Covering literary and language scholarships from 1963 to the present, it provides access to over 3,000 journals and series published worldwide, monographs, working papers and proceedings, bibliographies, and more


Humanities Index

This database provides information in the following areas: art, archaeology and classical studies, dance, drama, film, folklore, history, journalism and communications, language and literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology.


Sociological abstracts

Abstracts and indexes literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.


ProQuest social science journals

ProQuest social science journals links to full text journals in the areas of social science and humanities.


ABI/Inform Global (via ProQuest)

Provides immediate access to an extensive collection of international journal and newspaper articles in the field of business and management.

Browse all databases for Asian Studies

Maps
Statistics
Web Sites

Chinese Studies

Getting Started

If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:

Handbooks: 

Companion to Chinese history

Indiana companion to traditional Chinese literature

Selective guide to Chinese literature

Modern Chinese fiction

Books

Books on Chinese Studies will be found in the Library at various call numbers, for example:

DS733-779.32 History

JQ1499-1749 Politics and Administration

PL1001-1960 Language

PL2250-3208 Literature

You can also use the Library Catalogue keyword search to find books on your topic. Some books are available online (e-books).

Dictionaries: 

A Dictionary of Chinese Characters (online)

For Chinese-to-English dictionaries held by the library, see this link

For English-to-Chinese dictionaries held by the library, see this link

Journal Articles

For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.

Journal Articles: 

Key databases

Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS Online)

The online version of the Bibliography of Asian studies contains more than 410,000 records on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present.

Other databases

MLA international bibliography

This database indexes critical materials on modern language, literature, linguistics, and folklore. Covering literary and language scholarships from 1963 to the present, it provides access to over 3,000 journals and series published worldwide, monographs, working papers and proceedings, bibliographies, and more


Humanities Index

This database provides information in the following areas: art, archaeology and classical studies, dance, drama, film, folklore, history, journalism and communications, language and literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology.


Sociological abstracts

Abstracts and indexes literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.


ProQuest social science journals

ProQuest social science journals links to full text journals in the areas of social science and humanities.


ABI/Inform Global (via ProQuest)

Provides immediate access to an extensive collection of international journal and newspaper articles in the field of business and management.

Browse all databases for Asian Studies

Maps
Statistics
Web Sites

Philosophy

Getting Started

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Journal Articles

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Philosopher's index

Contains over bibliographic citations with author abstracts covering scholarly research in the fifteen fields of philosophy. It offers complete coverage of all major articles from anthologies and books written in English, Spanish, German, Italian, and French. Topics include all major fields of philosophy, including Aesthetics, Epistemology, Ethics, Logic (including Mathematics), Metaphysics etc.


Arts & humanities citation index

A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.


JSTOR

A full text database containing over 75 philosophy journals. The JSTOR archive does not include current issues.
Humanities index

Humanities Index

Provides information in the following areas: art, archaeology and classical studies, dance, drama, film, folklore, history, journalism and communications, language and literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology.


International medieval bibliography

A bibliography of research on the European Middle Ages (c.450-1500), which has been published since 1968, including journal articles, scholarly notes and similar literature. The entries are drawn from the regular coverage of over 4,000 periodicals and from a total of 5,000 other works.

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Biomedical Engineering

Getting Started

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Dictionaries: 
  • QR1 - 74.5 General Microbiology
  • R855 - 855.5 Medical Technology
  • TA164 Bioengineering
  • TP1 - 1185 Chemical Technology
  • TP248.13 - 248.65 Biotechnology

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Journal Articles

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Journal Articles: 

Access to all databases is via the Library's Database site.

  1. Compendex
    Citations with abstracts to worldwide literature in engineering and technology.
  2. IEEE Xplore digital library
    Provides full-text access to IEEE and IEE transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988 and current IEEE Standards.
  3. Pubmed
    Includes citations for biomedical articles and provides citations and abstracts to biomedical literature including research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and healthcare services.
  4. Reaxys
    Includes: Beilstein -- Gmelin -- MDL patent chemistry database
  5. ScienceDirect - covers full-text journal such as Current Opinion in Biotechnology and Trends in biotechnology.
  6. SciFinder
    Access the CAS databases that contain literature from many scientific disciplines including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more.
  7. Scopus
    Abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources.
  8. Web of Science
    Access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from high impact research journals. Web of Science also provides a unique search method, cited reference searching.
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Additional Resources

  1. Knovel - integrating technical information with analytical and search tool
  2. SpringerMaterials - based on the Landolt-Börnstein New Series, a data collection covering all areas of physical sciences and engineering

Patents

  1. Derwent Innovations Index
  2. eSpacenet - Europe's network of patent databases

Theses

  1. Search for UQ, Australian and international theses
  2. Proquest Digital Dissertations
Standards
Standards: 
  1. SAI Global on-line premium
    Full-text access to all current Australian standards
  2. IEEE xplore digital library
    Full-text access to IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) standards
  3. Annual book of ASTM standards

For further information see our Standards How-to guide

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Elizabethan Theatre

Getting Started

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Journal Articles

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Key databases

World Shakespeare bibliography

Provides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced from 1971 onwards

Literature online (LION)

Literature Online is a fully searchable library of over 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose plus biographies, bibliographies and key secondary sources. Criticism and reference resources include KnowledgeNotes; Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (1920-) and articles from over 123 literature journals

MLA international bibliography

Indexes materials on modern language, literature, linguistics, and folklore. Provides access to journals and series published worldwide, monographs, working papers and proceedings, and bibliographies

Early English books online

From the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War, Early English Books Online (EEBO) will contain over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard and Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661), and the Early English Tract Supplement - all in full digital facsimile from the Early English Books microfilm collection

The Shakespeare Collection

Use The Shakespeare Collection to access and study an extensive collection of authoritative materials supporting literary, textual, historical, and performance studies. Resources include the most recent Arden Shakespeare editions of the complete works, as well as editions and adaptations of Shakespeare's works, other works published during Shakespeare's time, prompt books, the Gordon Crosse Theatrical Diaries, criticism, reviews, images, and reference

Other databases

Humanities index

Indexes publications in the areas of: art, archaeology and classical studies, dance, drama, film, folklore, history, journalism and communications, language and literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology

Specialised Resources
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