LibGuides: Music: Home

Library Catalog

Search the Library catalogs for books, journals, scores, recordings, videos, and other materials.

D iscovery Search: searches books, DVDs, and other materials @ all 5 Colleges; e-books, e-journals, scholarly full-text articles, and UMass subscription databases.
Five College Library Catalog: searches books, DVDs, and other materials @ all 5 Colleges, and UMass subscription databases.

Music scores, books, DVDs, and CDs can be found on the 6th floor of Du Bois.

IMPORTANT: Off campus access to databases requires login with your NetID username and password.

These databases are a good place to begin your Music research:

Oxford Music Online
Definitive encyclopedia of music and musicians, musical compositions, instruments, and composer work lists.
International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text: IIMP
- This link opens in a new window
Citations, abstracts and full text of journal articles in dance, film, theater, and puppetry, 1864-present.

Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
Music Index Online
- This link opens in a new window
Indexes articles in 400 music periodicals, 1975-present.

Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
References to music journal articles and other scholarly literature, 1967-present.

Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.

For full terms of use, please see the Electronic Resources Usage Policy (https://www.library.umass.edu/about-the-libraries/policies/electronic-resources-usage-policy/).