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The subject terms and keywords below will link to results in the Library's Catalog. In addition to books, DVDs, government documents, and streaming media may be included in the results of the search. Only RIC resources are included.

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DRAM: Database of Recorded American Music This link opens in a new window
A scholarly resource of recordings, including CD quality audio, liner notes and essays from New World, Composers Recordings (formerly Composers Recordings, Inc./CRI) and other important labels.

Click the image below to search DRAM for Bartok's Sonata for Solo Violin.

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Indexes and abstracts over 11,000 magazines and scholarly journals in all subject areas with over 7,000 in full text.

Academic Search Complete draws from resources in every discipline but also provides many kinds of limiters, so you can focus a search on peer reviewed articles, English language resources, certain formats, dates, etc.

Click the image below to search Academic Search Complete for "transgender musicians"

SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
SocINDEX offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, social work and criminology & criminal justice. Use this database to find academic resources and author profiles in: demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, rural & urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, socio-cultural anthropology, sociological history, sociological research, sociological theory, substance abuse & other addictions, violence and other topics in the social sciences. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for hundreds of journals dating back to 1908. This database also includes full text for books, monographs, and conference papers.

Click the image below to search SocINDEX for "self acceptance."

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
RIC currently participates in all 15 JSTOR Arts & Sciences archive collections and the Life Sciences archive collection. Journals in archive collections are always included from volume 1 number 1, and related prior titles, but stop short of current issues. RIC also subscribes to 34 current journals in JSTOR. The entire corpus is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references.

Click the image below to search JSTOR for "musical instrument repair."

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