3. Finding Reviews & Articles
HOLLIS only indexes periodicals (newspapers, magazines, scholarly journals) at the title level. In order to find articles on specific topics you must use periodical databases (such as JSTOR). See section 6 for a list of selected periodical titles. To find such databases try our portal...
E-Research @ Harvard Libraries: Find electronic journals, resources and databases, across disciplines, save citations, and more. If you have partial information about an article, try using Citation Linker to locate. Find It @ Harvard links in database results lead to full text.
Reviews (Performances, Recordings)
LexisNexis Academic (Harvard Users, 1980s-present, Full Text, good for major newspapers, New York Times, Billboard, Rolling Stone, Variety, etc.):
Select the News tab (default); in the "Select Sources" menu, choose "Book, Movie, Music, Play and Video Reviews"; change date default (previous 3 months).
Rock's Backpages (Harvard Users): Rock journalism, reviews, articles and interviews
International Index to Music Periodicals (Harvard users, 1874-present):
Good coverage (selective full text) of topics in pop music and ethnomusicology (scholarly and popular (Billboard, Rolling Stone)). Use the "Select from list feature".
Also try keyword or subject searches in:
Music Index (Harvard Users, 1976-present): Indexes scholarly publications and magazines such as Billboard, Rolling Stone, and other titles (citations only).
JSTOR Music (Harvard users, full text): Great content, watch date coverage (for many titles, coverage does not include the latest 5 years or so). Also has a more limited titles list (38, including Popular Music). You should consult other databases in addition to JSTOR for thorough research.
Listing of all music-related databases our library holdings: music periodical databases
For more review sources see Finding Concert Reviews.
Scholarly Articles
All of the above, and the "go to" music tool for finding scholarly articles:
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (Ebsco): Includes articles, book reviews, dissertations, essays, book chapters, collections. Although it covers fewer popular titles (Billboard is here) , you should start here to find academic articles in music and intersecting disciplines such as critical theory, cultural studies.
More multi-disciplinary sources:
Academic Search Premier: Billboard, Rolling Stone, and general news such as Time and Newsweek.
Web of Science: Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Business Source Complete
Search Strategies: Try keyword or subject searching on performer, composition, style, album titles, etc. Most databases respond well to natural language searching and offer help screens (consult if search fails).
Ex: "MIDival PunditZ", "fusion", "Bhangra Beat", "Bhangra Music (India)", "reggaetón", "globalization", "transculturation".
Materials that are not owned by the Harvard Libraries and not available online can be requested through HCL Interlibrary Loan.
