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Resources for Musical Instrument or Psychology Information

WOU sources for information on musical instruments

Primo
Primo is the library search tool used to find books, ebooks, videos, and more in Hamersly Library and our partner Summit libraries. Summit is a sharing program between colleges and universities and gives you access to millions of items from other colleges and universities -- delivered right to WOU! Primo also provides to access articles and other electronic resources, though not all of the content in our other databases is included in Primo.
Oxford Music Online
A great resource for background information on musicians and musical topics. Includes full-text for the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, and The Oxford Companion to Music. Also includes selected entries from The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd ed.
Fine Arts & Music Collection
Search more than 5 million articles published in fine arts and music sources. More than 150 of the journals in the Fine Arts and Music Collection are covered in the Art Index and the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) indexes and are available in full-text.
Music Index
Find articles published in hundreds of international music journals covering history, forms and types of music, and instruments, including electronic instruments and computer produced music. Covers articles published since 1970. For articles published 1949-1969, consult the print version of Music Index shelved in our Reference collection.
Films On Demand
A web-based service for streaming educational videos distributed by Films Media Group. This vast archive currently includes more than 6,100 complete titles and 63,000 individual segments which may be viewed legally by current WOU students, faculty and staff anytime, anywhere. Videos are organized into comprehensive curriculum-based collections. View in Windows Media or Flash format.
Academic Search Premier (Ebsco)
Academic Search Premier is a multi-disciplinary database that provides citations and full-text for articles published in nearly 4,500 journals, including more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles.

WOU sources for information on how we interact with music

Academic Search Premier (Ebsco)
Academic Search Premier is a multi-disciplinary database that provides citations and full-text for articles published in nearly 4,500 journals, including more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles.
Primo
Primo is the library search tool used to find books, ebooks, videos, and more in Hamersly Library and our partner Summit libraries. Summit is a sharing program between colleges and universities and gives you access to millions of items from other colleges and universities -- delivered right to WOU! Primo also provides to access articles and other electronic resources, though not all of the content in our other databases is included in Primo.
Psychology Collection
Students, psychologists, counselors, counselees, behavioral scientists, and other researchers will glean relevant information from the thoughts, views, discoveries, and reports found in over 3.1 million articles. Powered by InfoTrac, Psychology Collection brings together information found in nearly 500 journals, with a strong emphasis on fulltext titles cited in PsycINFO.
PsycINFO
Indexes and summarizes more than 2 million scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in psychology and related disciplines. 97 percent of the material is peer-reviewed. The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others.

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