How To Find Articles
- Use the databases listed on this page to find articles.
- If it isn't available in full-text, click the "Find It!" button. We might have e-access another way or have it in print.
- If we don't have it, order the article through Interlibrary Loan (ILL).
If you're off-campus, you will be prompted for your Willamette username & password.
Streaming Music Databases
- Classical Music Librarythe present, including many contemporary composers. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera.
- Contemporary World MusicContains important genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. You can customize Google Scholar to recognize Willamette-owned materials (visit our Google Scholar page for more info).
Useful Databases and Websites for this Course
- Historical AbstractsProvides access to international scholarly literature on the history of the world, excluding the United States and Canada, from 1450 to the present. Indexes and abstracts journal articles, books, and dissertations.
- Access World NewsFull-text content of over 2,200 North American newspapers and more than 1,200 international newspapers, plus 300 wire services and over 200 broadcast news transcripts. Covers local, regional, and world issues, politics, government policies, sports, industries, cultural activities, schools, and the people and events in the community.
- Fuente AcademicaProvides full text coverage to more than 150 scholarly, academic Spanish language journals from Latin American, South American and Spanish publishers. All content is in Spanish and covers wide variety of subjects including politics, history, literature and education.
- Grove Art OnlineA comprehensive online resource for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide, from prehistory to the present. Includes The Grove Dictionary of Art, the definitive scholarly encyclopedia of Art. Type in Spain to get a thorough history of Spanish Art, broken down by historical eras.
- JSTORProvides access to the complete back files of more than 322 cross-disciplinary academic journals in digital format, some of which date from the 1800s.
- MLA International BibliographyIndexes critical material on the modern languages, literature, linguistics, and folklore. Provides access to 3,000+ journals, as well as to book chapters, proceedings, etc.
- Music Index OnlineIndexes over 725 international music periodicals offering a wealth of historiographic, ethnographic, and musicological data.
- Oxford Music OnlineIncludes Grove Music Online, which has been the leading online resource for music research since its inception in 2001, a glorious compendium of music scholarship offering the full texts of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Type in Spain to get a thorough history of Spanish Art AND Traditional Music.
- Project MuseProvides online access to the full text of over 100 journals in the disciplines of literary studies, classics, history, philosophy, political science, and the history of science and medicine.
Library Account Login
Use the 
button to find out what books and articles you have ordered via Summit, WorldCat and Interlibrary Loan.
Image Databases
- ARTstorProvides a broad and deep general collection of images of world art and architecture, as well as special collections including Native American, Asian, American and European art.
- Academic CommonsThe Willamette University Academic Commons combines the online collections of the Willamette University Archives and the Hallie Ford Museum of Art. Includes Art History images.
Websites
- Colecciones de la Biblioteca Digital HispánicaDigitized collections from the National Library of Spain broken down into thematic collections. A fabulous resource!!
- Inquisitio: Manuscript and Print Sources for the Study of the InquisitionA Digital project from the University of Notre Dame.
- Iberian Studies WebThe Iberian Studies Web is designed to provide access to scholarly resources in Iberian Studies (for Spain, Portugal and Andorra).