We have CDs, videos, streaming media, vinyl, articles, scores, books. Trouble finding something? Visit the Music & Dance service desk on the second floor of the 18th Avenue Library and ask us! We're happy to help you.
Music Periodical Indexes
Music Index. Indexing and abstracts from more than 600 journals, selective coverage for more than 200 journals, dating back to 1970.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text. More than 240 full-text journals spanning 50 countries and 40 languages from the early 20th century onwards; updated monthly.
Music Periodicals Database (Formerly International Index to Music Periodicals). Indexing and abstracts for hundreds of periodicals from many countries, plus full text for more than 140 of the indexed journals, some as early as 1874.
Multidisciplinary Periodical Indexes
Library catalogs typically list books, recordings, scores, journal titles, microforms, electronic resources — everything but articles. To find articles, search printed indexes and online article databases. Scroll down for tips on searching.
Tips on Searching Catalogs
You can search by KEYWORDS, but you may get more satisfactory results by AUTHOR, SUBJECT, or TITLE searching:
You can narrow the results of your search to sound recordings, videos, or books, etc., by first performing an AUTHOR, TITLE, SUBJECT, or KEYWORD search, and then choosing the LIMIT /SORT or MODIFY SEARCH option and selecting MATERIAL TYPE, then MUSIC RECORD (for recordings) or SERIAL/JOURNAL (for magazines) or BOOK, and then clicking FIND or SUBMIT.
For music/dance students:
Search by name of PROFESSOR or TA
For music/dance faculty:
To place items on reserve for your course, phone or email Jarod Ogier, at 292-8498 or ogier.5@osu.edu. Please allow two days' processing time, particularly at the start of a term.
Please note that we have a large collection of miniature (study) scores in multiple copies. We have six to eight copies of most items, and at least three of each, and sometimes as many as twenty, depending on the work. They circulate to individual members of a class as well as to teachers.
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Music & Dance Library faculty and staff are always ready to help you. Ask us!
Alan Green (Head, Music & Dance Library) 614-292-2319 green.200 @osu.edu
Sean Ferguson 614-688-0127 ferguson.36@osu.edu
Jarod Ogier 614-292-8498 ogier.5@osu.edu
Michael Murray 614-292-2319 murray.348@osu.edu
Gretchen Atkinson 614-292-2319 atkinson.6@osu.edu