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Looking for articles on a topic related to Music? Search in the recommended eResources listed below.
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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]
- 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.
- Contemporary World Music
Access to this resource will end May 23, 2012. If you need assistance selecting a similar resource please contact a librarian http://library.uncw.edu/ask.
Contemporary World Music delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent. [Details]
- ERIC (via EbscoHost)
Citations to articles and reports in education. [Details]
- 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]
- IIPA Full Text
There is a limit of 4 simultaneous users for this resource.
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] - 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] - 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]
- Jazz Music Library
Access to this resource will end May 23, 2012. If you need assistance selecting a similar resource please contact a librarian http://library.uncw.edu/ask.
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]
- JSTOR
Archive of selected scholarly journals in ecology, economics, history, mathematics, music, political science, statistics, and other humanities and social sciences. [Details]
Tutorial:
JSTOR Tutorials - Music Index Online
A subject-author index to music periodical literature. [Details]
- Oxford Music Online
Allows one user at a time.
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]
- RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
1 simultaneous user.
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]
- 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]
- Electronic Journal Service (EJS)
Search through EBSCO's database of scholarly e-journals. [Details]
- LexisNexis Academic
News, business, legal and reference information. [Details]
Tutorial:
LexisNexis YouTube Channel - 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]
- 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]
- Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. [Details]
- 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.
- Contemporary World Music
Access to this resource will end May 23, 2012. If you need assistance selecting a similar resource please contact a librarian http://library.uncw.edu/ask.
Contemporary World Music delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent. [Details]
- ERIC (via EbscoHost)
Citations to articles and reports in education. [Details]
- 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]
- IIPA Full Text
There is a limit of 4 simultaneous users for this resource.
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] - 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] - 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]
- Jazz Music Library
Access to this resource will end May 23, 2012. If you need assistance selecting a similar resource please contact a librarian http://library.uncw.edu/ask.
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]
- JSTOR
Archive of selected scholarly journals in ecology, economics, history, mathematics, music, political science, statistics, and other humanities and social sciences. [Details]
Tutorial:
JSTOR Tutorials - Music Index Online
A subject-author index to music periodical literature. [Details]
- Oxford Music Online
Allows one user at a time.
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]
- RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
1 simultaneous user.
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]
- 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]
- Electronic Journal Service (EJS)
Search through EBSCO's database of scholarly e-journals. [Details]
- LexisNexis Academic
News, business, legal and reference information. [Details]
Tutorial:
LexisNexis YouTube Channel - 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- Intellect
Intellect offers online access to several journals in the humanities. [Details]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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. [Details]
- WorldCat
Books and other materials in libraries worldwide. [Details]
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