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Oxford music online
Oxford Music Online (OMO) is the access-point for Oxford music reference subscriptions and products, including Grove Music Online, The Oxford Companion to Music, and The Oxford Dictionary of Music. With OMO patrons can cross-search Grove and Oxford reference content in one location. Articles from specialist dictionaries such as The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd ed., are available via OMO.

Oxford Bibliographies Online: Music
Combines the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia, to direct researchers to the best available scholarship in Music.
Academic Complete
Over 200,000 ebooks from major academic publishers in all subjects.

De Gruyter ebooks
Searchable collection of electronic books - only locally purchased content will be available full-text.
Early English books online
A digitized version of the Early English Books microfilm collection, this database contains full-text page images of of about 100,000 of the 1250,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection. Also includes a growing collection of searchable full text provided by the EEBO Text Creation Partnership. Illustrations in the books may be searched and viewed separately as well as in conjunction with the text.
Early European books
Diverse array of printed sources from the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries. Opens the door to some of the world's most significant collections of early printed books. All works printed in Europe before 1701, regardless of language, fall within the scope of the project, together with all pre-1701 works in European languages printed further afield. Builds upon and complements Early English Books Online (EEBO) and is largely concerned with non-Anglophone materials; however, books in English or printed in the English-speaking world that are already represented in EEBO are not omitted from Early European Books where they form an integral element of the predominantly non-Anglophone collections that have been made available for digital capture. Full-colour, high-resolution (400 ppi) facsimile images scanned directly from the original printed sources. Each item in the collection is captured in its entirety, complete with its binding, edges, endpapers, blank pages, and any loose inserts.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Over 180,000 titles, including books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides and more, published in the United Kingdom in the eighteenth century.

Nineteenth century collections online
A multi-year global digitization and publishing program focusing on primary source collections of the nineteenth century; will be comprised of numerous collections to be released over many years, including a variety of material types--monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more--in one cross-searchable location.
Hathi Trust
As a digital repository for the nation's great research libraries, HathiTrust brings together the immense collections of partner institutions. It was initially conceived as a collaboration of the thirteen universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the University of California system, and the University of Virginia to establish a repository for those universities to archive and share their digitized collections, and quickly expanded to include additional partners with fast growing treasure of digitized collections.
Internet archive
"The Internet Archive "was founded [in 1996] to build an 'Internet library,' with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format," such as Internet sites and other cultural digital artifacts (i.e. movies, interviews, images, etc.). Using the Internet Archive's "Wayback Machine," users can look at their own Web site and track how it has evolved. Plug-ins are made available as needed. "Special Wayback Collections" provide a sense of how events such as September 11, 2001, were recorded digitally. This site is appropriate for anyone doing research on the history of the Internet and for those who want to see how the Internet has changed over the years." "Best Free Reference Web Sites 2002." RUSA Quarterly, Fall 2002; reviewed Feb. 19, 2002.

JSTOR
Provides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other fields of the humanities and social sciences. Consult the online tables of contents for holdings, as coverage varies for each title.
The listener historical archive, 1929-1991
"This digital collection from Gale provides access to the complete, fully searchable facsimile archive of The Listener, the BBC periodical published from 1929-1991. The online archive consists of the complete 62 year run of the paper, allowing users to search across 129,000 pages and more than 226,000 articles--all newly digitized from originals in full color."--Information page.

MGG Online
Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG) is a general encyclopedia of music. MGG is encyclopedic in the true sense of that term: it offers in-depth articles on every aspect of music as well as many related areas such as literature, philosophy, and visual arts. MGG Online contains the second print edition of MGG, published from 1994 to 2008, as well as current, continuous online updates and additions.

RILM abstracts of musical literature
Over 200,000 citations on international music corresponding to the printed RILM Abstracts of Music Literature. Includes all data from the RILM printed year 1969 to the present.
RIPM
RIPM - Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals presents a cumulative index to 318 printed volumes. It provides access to nearly 300 music periodicals selected by international specialists, with detailed indexing of articles, reviews, illustrations, music examples, advertisements, press reviews and more.

Naxos music library
The Naxos Music Library is an online collection of recorded music in streaming audio--primarily classical music, plus smaller collections of world music and jazz. Naxos contains 85,000 tracks from over 5,500 CDs from the Naxos Music and Marco Polo catalogs. Full liner notes are included for most recordings. Naxos also features world music anthologies from Arc and Celestial Harmonies labels, reissues of 20th-century premieres on the First Edition label, and selected classical recordings from the Analekta, Bis, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and Haenssler labels. The Naxos Music Library includes most works from the standard concert repertoire, and contemporary and unusual repertoire as well. Two ongoing series, the American Classics Series and the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music, demonstrate the range of music available online. Naxos also features Chinese music, both classical and folk.
Classical music library
Provides musical sound recordings and MIDI files, program notes, reference texts (composer biographies, history, and glossary), and images. The music includes vocal and instrumental works from the Middle Ages through to the present. Users navigate through browse lists, a search engine and music track playlists.
Music online
Classical Scores Library will contain 400,000 pages of the most important classical scores, manuscripts and unpublished material, allowing for the study and analysis of more than 8,000 scores. Provides for textual searching by various criteria.
BoB box of broadcasts
BoB (Box of Broadcasts) National is an innovative shared online off-air TV and radio recording service for UK higher and further education institutions. BoB enables all staff and students in subscribing institutions to choose and record any broadcast programme from 60+ TV and radio channels. The recorded programmes are then kept indefinitely (no expiry) and added to a growing media archive (currently at over 1 million programmes), with all content shared by users across all subscribing institutions. The user-friendly system allows staff and students to record and catch-up on missed programmes on and off-campus, schedule recordings in advance, edit programmes into clips, create playlists, embed clips into VLEs, share what they are watching with others, search a growing archive of material, plus more. Discover more about BoB National features by viewing our video tutorials.
Kanopy
Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video service for educational institutions that works directly with filmmakers and film distribution companies to offer thousands of award-winning documentaries, training films and theatrical releases across diverse subjects and disciplines. Collections include titles from the DEFA Film Library, ArtMattan Films, HBO, Frameline, Ruscico, Pragda, BBC, Flicker Alley, National Film Board of Canada, First Run Features, Cinema Libre Studio, New Day Films, and the Criterion Collection/Janus Films.
MediaPlus
A cross-searchable collection of video, images and audio from a wide range of sources, including ITN and Reuters archives, news sources, Royal Geographical Society images, Getty images, and incorporating the Education Image Gallery, Film and Sound Online and NewsFilm.
News on screen

Petrucci Music Library
MSLP attempts to create a virtual library containing all public domain musical scores, as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music with the world without charge. IMSLP is the largest repository of free and freely available recordings on the web. In addition to keyword searching, users can browse the collection by work, composer, time period, nationality and instrumentation. PDF versions of individual scores can be downloaded and printed, and many works are accompanied by MP3 or MIDI recordings of musical works, and in the analysis of existing ones.

Proquest archive collections
African Diaspora, 1860-present; Black Drama Third Edition; Black Thought and Culture; ProQuest History Vault: Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century; Border and Migration Studies Online; Environmental Issues Online; LGBT Thought and Culture; LGBT Magazine Archive 1954-2015; Human Rights Studies Online; Anthropological Fieldwork Online; Social Work Online; British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries; North American Women's Letters and Diaries; Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires Since 1820; Gerritsen Collection Women's History; Women's Magazine Archive 1846-2015; American Periodicals Series 1740-1940; British Periodicals Collection; C19: the 19th Century Index; Periodicals Archive Online Collections; Art & Architecture Archive 1895-2005; Country Life Archive 1897-2005; Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive; Early European Books Collections; Performance Design Archive Online; Music Online: Classical Scores Library; Music Online: Music Periodicals of the 19th Century; Royal Shakespeare Company Collection; Luther's Werke; Religious Magazine Archive 1845-2015; Twentieth Century Religious Thought; ProQuest Congressional Digital Collection 1789-2010; Colonial State Papers 1574-1757; Documents on British Policy Overseas 1898-1980; Trench Journals and Unit Magazines 1914-1919; Digital National Security Archive; Revolution and Protest Online; Security Issues Online; Jerusalem Post; Korea Times; Chinese Newspaper Collection 1832-1953; Leftist Newspapers 1845-2015; News Policy & Politics Magazine Archive; Selected US newspaper archives
Wiley Digital Archives
Journal archives of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Royal College of Physicians and Royal Geographical Society

Gale primary sources
Provides an interactive research environment that allows researchers to cross-search Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) and our newspaper archives also accessed via Gale Newsvault.
Nineteenth century collections online
A multi-year global digitization and publishing program focusing on primary source collections of the nineteenth century; will be comprised of numerous collections to be released over many years, including a variety of material types--monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more--in one cross-searchable location.
Hathi Trust
As a digital repository for the nation's great research libraries, HathiTrust brings together the immense collections of partner institutions. It was initially conceived as a collaboration of the thirteen universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the University of California system, and the University of Virginia to establish a repository for those universities to archive and share their digitized collections, and quickly expanded to include additional partners with fast growing treasure of digitized collections.
Internet archive
"The Internet Archive "was founded [in 1996] to build an 'Internet library,' with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format," such as Internet sites and other cultural digital artifacts (i.e. movies, interviews, images, etc.). Using the Internet Archive's "Wayback Machine," users can look at their own Web site and track how it has evolved. Plug-ins are made available as needed. "Special Wayback Collections" provide a sense of how events such as September 11, 2001, were recorded digitally. This site is appropriate for anyone doing research on the history of the Internet and for those who want to see how the Internet has changed over the years." "Best Free Reference Web Sites 2002." RUSA Quarterly, Fall 2002; reviewed Feb. 19, 2002.

Accessible Archives
This is a major collection of eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth century US sources covering African American newspapers, anti-slavery and women’s suffrage campaigns, documents on the American Civil War and Reconstruction, America in World War One, and American county histories.

JISC Library Hub for UK research libraries
Search for details of materials held in over 170 UK national, academic and specialist libraries.
UK National Archives
Locate archives and manuscripts held by The National Archives and more than 2,500 other archives.
Europeana Music
Explore recordings, sheet music, instruments and music-related collections from European audio-visual archives, libraries and museums.