Databases by Subject
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Databases for Music
- The Database Of Recorded American Music
- Coverage: N/A
- Provides streamed audio recordings of over 1,500 CDs (9,800 compositions). Basic collection includes the diverse catalogue of American music recordings by New World Records-- from folk to opera, Native American to jazz, 19th century classical to early rock, musical theater, contemporary, electronic and beyond. Includes liner notes and essays.
- Grove Music Online
- Coverage: N/A
- 25 million words, hundreds of carefully selected and classified links to musical sites - Grove is an essential companion and tool for scholars of classical, world, and contemporary music and musicians. Other articles, from specialist dictionaries such as The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition, are available via a link from the primary article. Grove is included in the Oxford Music Online resource.
- Humanities International Complete
- Coverage: 1929 - current
- A comprehensive humanities database, with almost 500 full text titles and indexing and abstracting for more than 1,700 titles. Subject areas include (but are not limited to) literature, philosophy, the arts, history, culture-oriented and multi-disciplinary humanities titles with some coverage going back as far as 1929. This database replaces Humanities Abstracts.
- JSTOR
- Coverage: late 1800's - most recent 5 years
- Archival access to many scholarly periodicals. Jstor does not cover the most recent three years of most journals.
- The Music Index
- Coverage: 1979 - current
- Indexes over 670 international music periodicals, covering a broad range of subjects. Good subject headings for searches; citations only.
- National Network For Artist Placement
- Over 700 organizations and more than 2,500 current listings, updated monthly, weekly, daily, in every art discipline: arts institutions, dance companies, museums, galleries, filmmakers, theatre companies, and music organizations throughout the nation. This title replaces National Directory of Arts Internships. (See reference librarian for username and password.)
- Oxford Music Online
- Coverage: N/A
- A gateway into music research and the access point for new and forthcoming Oxford music reference subscriptions and products. Currently this includes Grove Music Online, the Oxford Companion to Music, and the Oxford Dictionary of Music.