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Music Therapy: Research and Statistics: Articles

Journal Finder

The use of this directory is necessary in the absence of full-text articles.

 

Journal Finder

Directory of magazines and journals accessible via the library in paper, microfilm, microfiche, and digital formats.

Remember, it is necessary to use the Journal Finder when your database results don't provide full-text articles. The Library may have the full-text article in another resource or in a non-digital format. If you are unsure about using this directory, please consult the Library's Ask-a-Librarian service for assistance.

Article Resources (General)

These resources provide access to a variety of topics.

 

Academic Search Premier

This resource contains over 2,900 full-text publications, including 2,600+ peer-reviewed journals covering all subjects.

Article Resources Specifically for Music Therapy

These resources provide access to articles on music related topics.

 

Journal of Music Therapy

Music Therapy Perspectives

PsycINFO

An index to journal articles and book chapters in psychology, selected from more than 1,300 periodicals.

PsycARTICLES

This resource contains full text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. This database holds over 28,000 full text articles from over 40 peer reviewed journals and chapters from selected APA books.

Cochrane Collection

You can search the Cochrane products simultaneously or individually.

  • Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) is a database of reviews which identify an intervention for a specific disease or other problem in health care, and determine whether this intervention works.
  • Central Register of Controlled Trials (CCTR) provides over 530,000 reports of controlled trials.
  • Cochrane Clinical Answers (CCA) contains a clinical question, a short answer, and an opportunity to drill down to the evidence from relevant Cochrane reviews.
  • Methodology Register (CMR) is a register of over 10,000 published reports of empirical studies of methods used in reviews. This product is intended for those who want to investigate a particular area or method relating to the science of systematic reviews.

Medline Complete

Indexes journals in various fields of medicine and nursing. It also covers research on the health care system and the preclinicial sciences. Medline contains citations and abstracts from approximately 5,200 current biomedical journals published in the U.S. and 70 foreign countries. PubMed is the open access version of Medline and is maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), at the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

SocINDEX with Full Text

This resource is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. Its extensive scope and content provide users with a wealth of extremely useful information encompassing the broad spectrum of sociological study. It contains full text for 428 core coverage journals dating back to 1908, and 163 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for more than 735 books and monographs, and full text for over 6,700 conference papers.

Education Research Complete

This resource is a bibliographic and full text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,820 journals, as well as full text for more than 900 journals. This database also includes full text for 71 books and monographs, and full text for numerous education-related conference papers.

ERIC

Index to thousands of education-related journal articles, books, theses, curriculi, conference papers, standards, and guidelines. ERIC includes the full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information. All ERIC citations with an ERIC number that begins with the letters "ED" (for ERIC Document) are available on microfiche in the Al Harris Library. The U.S. Department of Education maintains an open-access version of ERIC to provide education literature to support the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research.

JSTOR

A full-text scholarly journal archive. 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.

DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals

DOAJ covers free, full-text, quality controlled scholarly journals. Currently covers 9,745 journals with 5,673 journals searchable at the article level.

PLOS One

An International, peer-reviewed, open access, online publication featuring original research from all disciplines within science and medicine.

Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy

Music Therapy Journals & Publications

What is a Cochrane Review?

Cochrane Reviews are systematic reviews of research in healthcare and health policy that are published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. There are five types of Cochrane Reviews:

  1. Intervention reviews assess the benefits and harms of interventions used in healthcare and health policy.
  2. Diagnostic test accuracy reviews assess how well a  diagnostic test performs in diagnosing and detecting a particular disease.
  3. Methodology reviews address issues relevant to how systematic reviews and clinical trials are conducted and reported.
  4. Qualitative reviews synthesize qualitative evidence to address questions on aspects other than effectiveness.
  5. Prognosis reviews address the probable course or future outcome(s) of people with a health problem.

Cochrane Reviews base their findings on the results of studies that meet certain quality criteria, since the most reliable studies will provide the best evidence for making decisions about health care. Authors of Cochrane Reviews apply methods which reduce the impact of bias across different parts of the review process, including:

  1. Identification of relevant studies from a number of different sources (including unpublished sources);
  2. Selection of studies for inclusion and evaluation of their strengths and limitations on the basis of clear, predefined criteria;
  3. Systematic collection of data;
  4. Appropriate synthesis of data.

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