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Academic Video Online (VAST) from
Alexander Street Press
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21 Alexander Street Press video collections in one cross-searchable platform. American History in Video, Area Studies Video Online, Art and Architecture in Video Online, Business and Economics Video Online, Counseling & Therapy in Video I, Criminal Justice and Law, Dance in Video, Education in Video, Ethnic Studies Video Online,Ethnographic Video Online, Filmakers Library Online, Health and Healthcare in Video, Humanities Video Online,Opera in Video, Philosophy and Religious Studies in Video, Politics and Current Affairs Video Online, Psychology Video Online, Science Video Online, Theatre in Video, Women's and Gender Studies Video Online, World History in Video, and World Languages and Literature in Video. |
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Streaming video from top producers like BBC, PBS, A&E, and Filmakers Library. |
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Varies |
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American Song from
Alexander Street Press
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American roots music and pre-1960 American popular music: genres including country, slave spirituals, folk, bluegrass, Western, old time, American Indian, blues, gospel, and shape note singing. Collection contains over 6,875 albums totaling more than 116,000 recordings. |
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Music recordings. |
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Recording dates are from 1911 to present. |
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Arts & Humanities Citation Index from
Institute of Scientific Information
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Archaeology, architecture, art, Asian studies, classics, folklore, history, language, linguistics, literature, music, philosophy, radio, television, film, religion, and theater. |
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Some linked full text articles. |
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1975 to present |
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Classical Music Library from
Alexander Street Press
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Includes over 85,000 licensed recordings that users can listen to on the Internet. Choral works, symphonies, operas, & the avant-garde. Browse by album, composer, ensemble, genre, instruments, labels, recording date and more. |
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Audio recordings. Full text supplementary information. |
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Medieval to contemporary. |
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Contemporary World Music from
Alexander Street Press
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Over 200,000 tracks delivering contemporary genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, afro-pop, ambient, chant, contemporary Celtic and British folk music, electronic, ska, etc. |
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Music recordings. |
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International. |
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Dissertations & Theses from
ProQuest
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Citations for dissertations & theses from 1861 to the present. Titles published since 1997 are available for download in PDF format. Citations for dissertations from 1980 forward include abstracts written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include abstracts. |
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Many full text dissertations. |
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1861 to present |
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DRAM from
Anthology of Recorded Music, Inc.
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American music recordings by New World Records and other independent labels. From folk to opera, Native American to jazz, 19th century classical to early rock, musical theater, contemporary, and electronic music. |
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CD-quality music Recordings, complete original liner notes and essays from independent record labels and sound archives. |
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1975 to present |
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Encyclopedia of Popular Music from
Oxford University Press
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Covers all genres of popular music, trends, styles, record labels, venues, music festivals, and biographies including discographies. The online version of the 10-volume The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, 4th Edition. |
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Full-text online encyclopedia. |
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All genres and periods from 1900 to the present day. |
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Essay & General Literature Index (H.W. Wilson) from
Ebsco
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Indexes literature and humanities related journals and book chapters. Subjects include economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, art history, drama, and film. Items indexed are limited to English language publications from the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain. |
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Some full text articles. Citations to books. |
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1985 to present |
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Essay & General Literature Index Retrospective (H.W. Wilson) from
Ebsco
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Indexes more than 249,000 essays in literature and humanities related journals and book chapters. Subjects include Archaeology, Architecture, Art, Children’s Literature, Classical Studies, Drama, Economics, Fiction, Film, Folklore, History, Linguistics, Music, Poetry, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Women’s Studies. Items indexed are limited to English language publications from the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain. |
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Citations to journals and books. |
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1900 - 1984. |
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Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online from
Alexander Street Press
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Online version of the popular print edition. 9,000 pages of material on world music, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors and 300 audio tracks. |
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Online music encyclopedia and audio samples. |
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1997-2001 |
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Index to Printed Music from
Ebsco
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Over 350,000 index records of individual pieces of music published in standard scholarly editions. Searchable by composer name or ID, editor, genre, language, librettist, format, publisher name, series, title, instrumentation and/or number of instruments. |
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Citations to musical works. |
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Ancient Greek times to present. |
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Infotrac Fine Arts and Music Collection from
Gale -Cengage Learning
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Different types of art & expression. Includes coverage of the arts from music and music theory to drama and the performing arts. |
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Many full text articles and book reviews. |
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1980 - present. |
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International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text from
ProQuest
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All aspects of music, including music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theatre, theory, popular music forms and composition. Indexes both scholarly and popular music journals. |
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Many full text articles. |
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Over 770,000 entries, the majority of which are from 1996 onward. More than 200,000 entries in IIMP are from the backfile (up to 1995) & much of this coverage begins with the first issue of the journal run, some start as early as 1874. Some complete journal runs are included, which cover the first published issue right up to the present. |
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International Medieval Bibliography from
Brepols Publishers N.V.
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European Middle Ages (c. 400-1500) consisting of 440,000 records for articles, review articles, scholarly notes and similar literature on all aspects of medieval studies. |
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Citations to articles. |
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1967 to present. |
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International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) from
International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
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A virtual library containing public domain musical scores, as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music with the world without charge. |
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Scores |
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From ancient to modern. |
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Jazz Music Library from
Alexander Street Press
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More than 10,000 albums and 131,000 tracks of all types of jazz including acid jazz, bebop, Dixieland, free jazz, and more. |
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Streaming audio files. |
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Covers the most notable jazz artists and ensembles from the beginnings of jazz to present |
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JSTOR from
JSTOR
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Multi-Subject. |
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Full text articles, primary sources, images |
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First volume until fairly recent. Usually does not have the newest volumes of each journal. |
To link to external content from JSTOR, click on  . |
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Music Online from
Alexander Street Press
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Includes content from 6 Alexander Street Music listening collections (African American Music, American Song, Contemporary World Music, Classical Music Library, Jazz Music Library, and Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries) plus The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online. |
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Comprehensive database of streaming audio, video, reference, and scores on the web. |
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Varies |
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Naxos Music Library from
Naxos
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Classical music. Access over 55,000 CDs from the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues plus the complete catalogues or selected titles from over 375 classical, jazz and world music labels. |
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Streaming music database |
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Medieval to contemporary. |
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Access your playlists on your smartphone using the iPhone or Android NML app. Click here for instructions. |
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Opera in Video from
Alexander Street Press
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Five hundred hours of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world’s best performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work’s importance to the operatic canon. |
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Streaming video from top producers like BBC, PBS, A&E, and Filmakers Library. |
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Varies |
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Oxford Music Online from
Oxford University Press
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Online equivalent of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition (2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), & The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd edition, (2002). Includes access to the Oxford Companion to Music, the Oxford Dictionary of Music and the Encyclopedia of Popular Music. |
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Full text. Audio files. |
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Dates vary. |
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To play back musical examples, a small software plug-in called Scorch is required. Scorch is available as a free download. The Sibelius enabled examples currently available on Oxford Music Online are listed in the Sibelius Guide. |
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Project Muse (Premier) from
Johns Hopkins University Press
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Over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers. Includes African Studies, Asian Studies, Economics, Education, Film, Theater, Performing Arts, History, Judaic Studies, Language, Latin American Studies, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Politics & Policy Studies, Religion, and Women's Studies. |
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Full text. |
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Dates vary. |
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RILM from
ProQuest
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Comprehensive guide to publications on music from all over the world. |
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Some linked full text articles & reviews.. Citations to audio visual material, books, & dissertations. |
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1967 to present |
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RISM Series A/II : Music Manuscripts after 1600 from
Ebsco
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An international, annotated bibliography, which aims to document the world's musical sources of manuscripts or printed music, works on music theory, and libretti. RISM is the most comprehensive annotated index and guide to music manuscripts produced after 1600 containing over 650,000 manuscript records by over 22,500 composers found in over 800 libraries and archives in 32 countries . |
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Annotated index and guide to music manuscripts. |
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1600-1800. |
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