eResources by Subject: Music

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• Arts and Humanities Citation Index

  Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: 1975 - present
• Classical Music Library

  Classical Music Library is the world's largest multi-label database of Classical music recordings for listening and learning in libraries. The growing collection of 60,000-plus tracks includes recordings from the world's greatest labels including Hyperion, Bridge Records, Sanctuary Classics, Artemis-Vanguard, Hänssler Classic, Vox and many more. Coverage includes music written from the earliest times (e.g. Gregorian Chant) to the present, including many contemporary composers. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera.

  Classical Music Library contains a collection of 4,175 albums, equalling over 64,500 tracks of music recordings for libraries, featuring the world's greatest performers from 26 classical labels. 

  15 simultaneous users. 

   

  [Details] Coverage Dates: Medieval to contemporary; updated regularly
• Contemporary World Music

  Contemporary World Music delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: n/a
• ERIC (via EbscoHost)

  Citations to articles and reports in education.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: 1966 - present; updated monthly
• Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective

  Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective is a bibliographic database that cites articles from English-language periodicals from some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: 1907-1984
• IIPA Full Text

  International Index to the Performing Arts Full Text is a performing arts journal resource with nearly 350,000 indexed articles, plus detailed abstracts and full text, covering film, theatre and dance.
  
  

  [Details] Coverage Dates: 1864 - present
• IPA Source

  IPA Source is the web's largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and solo art songs.
  29 simultaneous users - Please log out when finished

  [Details] Coverage Dates: n/a
• Jazz Discography Online (TJD Online)

  The Jazz Discography covers all categories of jazz and other creative improvised music, including Traditional, Swing, Bop, Modern, Avant-Garde>, Fusion, Third Stream, etc. It covers leaders from A to Z and contains 149,350 sessions, 26,856 leaders and almost 1.7 million musician and tune entries.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: 1896 -2008
• Jazz Music Library

  Jazz Music Library is the largest and most comprehensive collection of streaming jazz available online — with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: n/a
• JSTOR

  Archive of selected scholarly journals in ecology, economics, history, mathematics, music, political science, statistics, and other humanities and social sciences.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by publication
• Music Index Online

  A subject-author index to music periodical literature.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: 1952 - present
• Oxford Music Online

  Oxford Music Online is a new gateway that offers users the ability, for the first time ever, to access and cross-search the vast resources of Oxford's music reference in one location. The cornerstone of Oxford Music Online, Grove Music Online, has been completely redesigned with a number of functional enhancements and new content.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: n/a
• RILM Abstracts of Music Literature

  RILM provides over 300,000 bibliographic entries for scholarly writings on music and related disciplines including concise abstracts and broad coverage with indexing of all types of scholarly works published in over 140 languages.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: 1967 - present; updated monthly

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• Cambridge Journals Online

  Cambridge Journals Online is the online Cambridge University Press’s collection of several journals across the sciences, social sciences and humanities. 

  [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by publication
• Electronic Journal Service (EJS)

  Search through EBSCO's database of scholarly e-journals.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by publication
• LexisNexis Academic

  News, business, legal and reference information.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: 1970 - present; updated continuously
• Oxford Journals

  Collections cover Life Sciences, Mathematics & Physical Sciences, Medicine, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Law, and include some of the most authoritative journals in their fields.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: n/a
• Readers' Guide Retrospective

  Readers' Guide Retrospective is a database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. 3 simultaneous users.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: 1890 - 1982

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• Academic Search Complete

  Academic Search Complete offers critical information from many sources unique to this massive collection. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full-text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by publication
• Classical Music in Video

  Classical Music in Video contains performances of all forms of classical music, including major performances by leading orchestras, plus chamber music, oratorio, and solo performances, along with masterclasses and interviews with master teachers from around the world.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: n/a
• Intellect

  Intellect offers online access to several journals in the humanities.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by title
• MasterFILE Complete

  This multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,000 general reference publications with full-text information dating as far back as 1922.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: 1975 - present
• PBS Video Collection

  You can now view nearly 250 quality PBS programs covering a wide variety of topics. These videos are viewable from any computer running Flash Player version 9 or higher with a relatively good Internet connection (at least 175 Kbps). Unfortunately, it will not be possible to view the videos over a dial-up Internet line.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: n/a
• Wiley Online Library

  This database covers academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, psychology, law and criminology, life sciences, and business.

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• WorldCat

  Books and other materials in libraries worldwide.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: 1200 - present; Updated daily