International Index to Music Periodicals, Full Text Edition (IIMP)
IIMP Full Text is a music information resource with indexing, abstracts and selected full text from many sources, covering the scholarly to the popular. Offering the widest span of scholarship available, IIMP Full Text ranges from 1874 to the most recent issues.
Holdings: Dates vary.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
Covers all aspects of music, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, dance, and music therapy. If related to music, works in other fields, such as librarianship, literature, dramatic arts, visual arts, anthropology, sociology, philosophy and physics are included.
Holdings: 1969 to the present. Updated monthly.

Music Index Online
The editor-librarians at Harmonie Park Press survey data from more than 690 international music periodicals and review new journals for possible inclusion. Topics concerned with every aspect of the classical and popular world of music are carefully categorized and organized according to the framework of an internal Subject List. A broad range of subjects are indexed, covering musicological or organological topics, plus book reviews, record reviews, first performances, and obituaries. (from Music Index website)

RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals (1800-1950)
RIPM (Repertoire international de la presse musicale) provides access to the contents of European and American music periodicals published in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Topics covered include contemporary writings about composers, performers, compositions, and musical life. 200 volumes are planned. RIPM is published under the auspices of the International Musicological Society, the International Association of Music Librairies, Archives and Documentation Centres, and UNESCO's International Council for Philosophy and Humanitic Studies.

JSTOR
JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of journals in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. Issues are available both as images and as text, making searching possible both within each title and across the whole database.

 

Penn's subscription currently includes all the available collections:

• the Arts & Sciences Collection I, II, III, IV and the complement
• the Business Collection
• the Ecology & Botany Collection
• the General Science Collection
• the Language and Literature Collection
• the Music Collection

 

Access to journals from JSTOR is restricted to current Penn faculty, staff and students.

Printing from the JSTOR database requires downloading a helper application called JPrint.
Holdings: active

Project Muse provides full text access to articles from over 300 scholarly journals in the humanties, arts, social sciences and sciences. Coverage begins in 1995 or more recently and in most cases continues to the present. Issues are available both as images and as text; searching is possible both within each title and across the whole database.