MEGASearch
Use MegaSearch to search across hundreds of journals, magazines and newspapers.
Other Databases for Researching Music
When accessing the databases from off campus, you will be asked to input your MyPima username and password.
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Pop Culture UniverseAmerican history and popular culture, including fads and entertainment.
E-Books
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Gale Virtual Reference Library (formerly Gale ebooks)You can do a single search across Gale encyclopedias to get overview articles on topics.
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Pop Culture UniverseAmerican history and popular culture, including fads and entertainment.
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ABC-CLIOMany e-books with broad overviews of music genres and musician biographies.
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Ebooks on EBSCOEbooks on EBSCO.
Print Journals at the West Campus Library
Current issues (and 1 year's back issues) can be found in Print format at the West Campus Library
Acoustic Guitar
American Music
Downbeat
Guitar Player
Journal of Music Theory
The Musical Quarterly
Perspectives of New Music
Rolling Stone
Popular Magazines Available Online through Flipster
Print Books
Continue your research by finding mainly BOOKS (and sometimes videos) about your topic.
Search the Library Catalog
Tips for searching the catalog:
- Use simple words or phrases in quotations, like "evidence-based nursing" or "health care reform".
- Where are the Nursing books? Most will be in the R section, and RT section in particular. Familiarize yourself with the LC classification system, used by most academic libraries. Related sections are:
- QM (Human Anatomy)
- QP (Physiology)
- QR (Microbiology)
- Focus your initial search results by campus, date or other ways by clicking "Modify Search."