These databases index many different types of materials, including articles, books, dissertations, and conference proceedings. Not all of them will be available immediately, but those we do not have current access to can be requested through Documents on Demand.
Popular periodicals, like newspapers and magazines, are important sources for rock research, so in addition to general scholarly journals, this list includes more general newspaper and magazine databases.
Articles from scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. NOTE: In many cases, articles from the last 3-5 years are NOT available due to publisher copyright restrictions.
A database of humanities and social science content. Offers complete, full-text versions of more than 700 scholarly journals from many of the world's leading universities and scholarly societies and more than 60,000 books from more than 100 publishers.
Search the complete text of the New York Times from 1851 to 2017 for PDF images of original articles which include photographs and drawings
A searchable archive of leading women’s interest magazines, including Good Housekeeping and Ladies’ Home Journal, dating from the 19th century through to the present.
Independent Voices is an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.
The world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1861 to the present day and offering full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997.
This is a selected list of music and entertainment trade publications. It is not exhaustive. Depending on what you are researching, other titles may be more relevant. Please reach out to the music librarian for assistance in locating more relevant trade publications.
From a Database:
Look for the red and gold FIND IT @ CMU button in the record for the article you are interested in.
This will allow you to request the article through Documents on Demand if the full-text is not currently available.