MEGASearch
- MegaSearch This link opens in a new window
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.
- Pop Culture Universe This link opens in a new windowAmerican history and popular culture, including fads and entertainment.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowAcademic journals, books, and primary sources as well as current issues of journals in the humanities and social sciences.
- ProQuest Research Library This link opens in a new window
Popular Magazines Available Online through Flipster
E-Books
- Gale Virtual Reference Library (formerly Gale ebooks) This link opens in a new windowYou can do a single search across Gale encyclopedias to get overview articles on topics.
- Pop Culture Universe This link opens in a new windowAmerican history and popular culture, including fads and entertainment.
- ABC-CLIO This link opens in a new windowMany e-books with broad overviews of music genres and musician biographies.
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
Selected Online Journals
The online journals listed below live in the library's databases. Click on the links for shortcuts that go directly to that journal without having to locate them through a database.
- BillboardThe international newsweekly of music, video and home entertainment; profiles, commentary, album ratings, feature articles, marketing and reviews.
- Popular Music and SocietyResearch articles and reviews for a general readership about popular music, culture, and sociology.
- Popular Music HistoryScholarly articles on the history of popular music
- General Music TodayContains articles on emerging trends, effective teaching ideas, & new material for teaching general music at all levels.
- Music Theory OnlineFeatures articles, reviews, commentaries, and analytical essays related to the field of professional music theory.
- Computer Music JournalConcentrates on skills, technologies, and promises of digital sound and musical applications of computers.