Key subject collections

  • Academic Search Complete
    Wide range of topics and subject areas, including music.  

  • Art Full Text 
    Topics covered include film and television. Useful for Sound for Media.  

  • Business Source Complete
    Topics covered include the film industry and the music industry. 

  • Communication and Mass Media Complete
    Topics covered include film and television. Useful for Sound for Media. 

  • Humanities International Complete
    Culture and cultural studies, including music. 

  • JSTOR
    Wide range of topics and subject areas, including music. The most recent articles were published 3-5 years ago.

  • Project Muse Humanities Collection
    Culture and cultural studies, including music.

  • ScienceDirect
    Wide range of topics and subjects, including music technology and musical instruments. Focus is scientific or technical. 

  • Taylor and Francis Online Journals      
    Wide range of topics and subjects, including Music Technology and Musical Instruments. Focus is scientific or technical. 

  • Web of Science
    Major interdisciplinary resource. A collection of citation databases (not full-text) citing international scholarly literature world-wide.

  • Wiley Online Library
    Wide range of topics and subjects, including Music Technology and Musical Instruments. Focus is scientific or technical. 
  • Lexis Library
    Newspaper articles, UK broadsheets and tabloids from 1980s-present day.  Once you’ve accessed this database, make sure you select News on the menu bar near the top of the screen. (Full text)

  • Mintel
    Consumer market reports on music & concerts, new technology.

  • Music Ally
    Reports, analysis and news, including some statistics, in the music industry spanning the last 15 years. Topics covered include: technological change; marketing, promotion and campaigns; entrepreneurship; trends in music genres over time; and international trends.

  • Statista
    Charts, data and graphs from over 18,000 sources, including figures on music streaming.
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