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Indexes and Other Music Databases


The majority of these resources are restricted to UWM users. Clicking on the links from an off-campus computer connecting through a commercial ISP (e.g. RoadRunner or AOL) will take you to the Libraries' Proxy Server login page. Enter your complete 11-digit UWM ID number and the first 4 letters of your last name to access them. More information about the Proxy Server is available on this page http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/ris/ezproxy.html.

Music-Specific Resources

New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians, 2nd Ed. Full-text, Online.
The International Index to Music Periodicals also called IIMP, indexing and abstracting of music periodicals, includes a broad array of pedagogical publications not included in RILM
RILM, Repertoire Internationale de Litterature Musicale, the premier scholarly indexing and abstracting Service.
Classical Music Library streaming audio of over 35,000 tracks from 32 record labels
Naxos Music Library streaming audio of over 85,000 tracks - essentially the complete Naxos Recording label, plus many other smaller labels. Includes a great deal of world and ethnic music too
Musical America - Music Industry news and directory of performers, agents, and presenting organizations

Non Music-Specific Resources

OCLC WorldCat, a listing of the holdings of virtually all libraries in the US and Canada (and many other countries as well).

Academic Search through EBSCOHost. Interdisciplinary access to indexing, including full text periodical literature.
Lexis/Nexis Academic, full text of over 4,000 current newspapers as well as legal, government, and business sources
Newspaper Archive Elite, full text of older newspapers in .pdf. Includes over 23 million fully searchable pages from over 400 cities and towns
Proquest Newspapers, Full-text of over 550 US and international news sources from 1986-present
Proquest Historical Newspaper is full text/image of the New York Times from 18 Sept 1851-31 Dec 2001
Ingenta, formerly Carol Uncover is a service that delivers article citations and tables-of-contents of journals directly to your email account. This service is free to UWM users. For instructions on setting up a profile go to this page


For access to the complete list of UWM Golda Meir Library's electronic resources, please look at UWM Library, Indexes and Databases -- An alphabetical List



updated 5 Aug '05 -- Ask Music