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Accessing Online Resources Off Campus
- Access databases and indexes through this guide or the Databases A-Z page in order to access resources off campus using DePauw's proxy server.
- Please reach out to me (zouayang@depauw.edu) if you have any problems accessing online resources or questions.
General Databases
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Academic Search Elite
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- Why search here? Great starting point, with something for every subject!
- What's included? Lots of full-text, mostly peer-reviewed and recent, with some older and popular sources.
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Dissertations: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
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- Why search here? You want to read graduate student dissertations and theses on a topic - often giving you extensive bibliographies, and occasionally cutting edge research on new topics.
- What's included? Index of doctoral dissertations and some master's theses from most North American and many European colleges and universities. Starts in 1743. Full text is available for over 1 million, mostly since 1996.
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JSTOR
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- Why search here? It’s an excellent tool for scholarly articles and books/chapters from university presses, covering most disciplines.
- What's included? The collection's strength lies in its complete back issues of journal titles covering 75 disciplines, while a weakness is a "moving wall" limiting access to the most recent journal issues - the coverage skews older, so it’s not always a great starting point for researching topics that need to have the most current sources.
Music Specific Databases
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Arts Premium Collection
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- Why search here? You need academic journals in the performing arts, music, design, or film studies.
- What's included? The Arts Premium Collection provides cross-searchable access to thousands of journal titles in specialist subject areas for arts, design, film, humanities, music, and performing arts.
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Bloomsbury Popular Music
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- Why search here? You’re doing research on popular and world music.
- What's included? Bloomsbury Popular Music provides in-depth analysis of popular music in a global context. It includes Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, the 33 1/3 series of books exploring key albums, and more.
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Music Periodicals Database
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- Why search here? You’re doing research on music.
- What's included? An index with full-text and abstracts of articles on music. Includes indexing for music articles and obituaries from the New York Times and The Washington Post. Covers nearly all aspects of music, including scholarly studies and popular trends.
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Oxford/Grove Music Online
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- Why search here? You’re doing research on music.
- What's included? Both an encyclopedia and dictionary, Oxford/Grove Music Online is a reference source offering articles, biographies, and audio on music worldwide.
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Performing Arts Periodicals Database
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- Why search here? You need academic journals in the performing arts.
- What's included? Performing Arts Periodicals Database covers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry - including dance, drama, theater, stagecraft, musical theater, circus performance, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic, performance art, film, television and more.
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Project Muse
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- Why search here? You need scholarly articles on the humanities and social sciences.
- What's included? Project Muse is a collection of established and longstanding scholarly journals in full-text for humanities and social sciences journals. Strengths of this collection include its caliber of content with historical and the current holdings.
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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
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- Why search here? You’re doing research on music.
- What's included? Abstracts and citations to music scholarship. Sponsored by the International Musicological Society, the International Association of Music Libraries, and the International Council on Traditional Music.
Databases for Related Fields
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DePauw Digital Library
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- Why search here? You need access to digitized primary and secondary DePauw University and/or Indiana United Methodist Church history sources, such as letters, diaries, scrapbooks, newspapers, photographs, and more.
- What's included? Contains a variety of digitized materials spanning the history of DePauw University, Putnam County, and Indiana United Methodism.
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GenderWatch
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- Why search here? You’re researching topics about gender issues.
- What's included? Articles from journals, magazines, newspapers (some working papers & dissertations), published since 1970. Almost all are full text. Gender studies, men's studies, & women's studies.
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APA PsycInfo with PsycArticles
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- Why search here? You're doing research in Psychology or Neuroscience.
- What's included? Coverage back to 1600s, from 2300 journals.
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Sociological Abstracts
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- Why search here? You’re writing about a topic in sociology or related fields.
- What's included? International academic literature of sociology and related disciplines, including the companion file Social Services Abstracts, which is current research focused on social work & human services. Mostly from 1990s+.
