Introduction to Music Education (MUS 135)

Discover the best places to find articles on music education, and other places to search for information.

NAfME publishes six periodicals, three print (two of which are available online also) and three online only. NAfME members can view back issues of all NAfME periodicals in their entirety at no charge, except Journal of Research in Music Education (JRME). Back issues of JRME are available to subscribers. Visit the links below to login with your membership information.

Journal of Music Teacher Education

Published online only twice a year, available free to members.

• Search and view issues of Journal of Music Teacher Education — Login required
• Guidelines for Contributors
• Code of Ethics
• Editorial Committee
• Institutional Subscriptions

Music Educators Journal

Currently published quarterly in print and digital versions. As of March 2016, the issues will be digital only. (Print edition will be available for an additional $20 subscription fee; please contact memberservices@nafme2.org or 1-800-336-3768.) Members will receive an e-mail with a link to a page where they can log in, using their e-mail and NAfME member number, to access digital issues.

• Search and View Issues of Music Educators Journal — Login required
• Feedback — Editor Ella Wilcox
• Guidelines for Contributors
• Book Review Guidelines
• Video Review Guidelines
• Technology Review Guidelines
• Editorial Committee
• Advertise
• Institutional Subscriptions

Questions? Contact Ella Wilcox

General Music Today

Published online only three times per year, available free to members.

• Search and view issues of General Music Today — Login required
• Guidelines for Contributors
• Editorial Committee
• Institutional Subscriptions

Update: Applications of Research in Music Education

Published online only twice a year, available free to members.

• Search and view issues of UPDATE: Applications of Research in Music Education — Login required
• Guidelines for Contributors
• Code of Ethics
• Editorial Committee
• Institutional Subscriptions

Teaching Music Magazine

Published four times per year, automatically mailed to all NAfME members (Digital edition available).

• Teaching Music Online Edition — Login required
• Advertise
• Feedback
• Guidelines for Contributors

Questions? Contact Ella Wilcox

• Institutions-All institutional subscription orders worldwide for Teaching Music should contact:

Journal of Research in Music Education

Published quarterly; available to NAfME members for an additional subscription fee (Digital edition available with subscription).

• Search and view issues of Journal of Research in Music Education — Login required
• Guidelines for Contributors
• Code of Ethics
• Editorial Committee
• How to Log into JRME
• Institutional Subscriptions

Music Databases

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Other Useful Databases 

Proprietary databases to which Taylor University subscribes have distinctive differences from search engines such as Google or Google Scholar. A database, generally, is a collection of information organized to provide efficient retrieval of subject matter, specifically scholarly subject matter. They tend to be narrower in scope than Google or Google Scholar. 

Prominent features of proprietary databases generally:

• Cover specific discipline area/s.
• Include academic (peer-reviewed) articles from journals or magazines, electronic books, newspapers, images and research related resources.
• Provide citation information or full text to what may be included in the text of the article (a works cited or bibliography.)
• Are subscriptions for which Zondervan pays. Whereas Google is free some databases are thousands of dollars per year.

Zondervan Library subscribes to over 75 research databases that contain journal, magazine, and newspaper articles on both general and specific disciplines. There are pros and cons for each option. Awareness of the content, organization, precision of search capabilities can save you time and yield the most appropriate and relevant results.

For more information see What is a library database? (Western Oregon University) http://www.wou.edu/provost/library/clip/tutorials/lib_database.htm