| Interdisciplinary |
Academic Search Premier (Ebsco)    Provides full text for nearly 4,600 publications, including nearly 3,500 (scholarly) peer-reviewed journals. |
| JSTOR Back issues of nearly 800 scholarly, peer-reviewed journals. Coverage is from the first issue to 3-5 years prior to the current year. |
| OmniFile 1994-Present Topics: business, education, science, humanities, social sciences, general |
| ProQuest Direct Search several dozen ProQuest indexes to research and newspaper articles from 4,000+ periodicals. This link searches Research Library, ABI/Inform, Dissertations & Theses, ProQuest Newspapers, and many more. |
| Subject Specific |
| African American Music Reference African American Music Reference offers the first comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrels, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression. |
| American Song A music history database that will contain 50,000 tracks that allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past. The database will include songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more. |
| Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection More than 300 important dramatic works in streaming audio from the curated archive of the nation’s premiere radio theatre company. The plays - which include some of the most significant dramatic literature of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries - are performed by leading actors from around the world and recorded specifically for online listening. |
| Black Drama - 1850 to present Contains approx. 1200 plays by 201 playwrights, with detailed information on related productions, theaters, production companies, & more. |
| Byron Hoyt Sheet Music Collection More than 7,000 classical sheet music and educational titles. |
| Classical Music Library Multi-label database of 50,000+ classical music recordings for listening and learning. Find, listen to, and even buy your favorite classical music recordings. |
| Classical Music Reference Library Brings together >40,000 pages of materials, spanning the entire history of Western classical music. Includes the authoritative reference titles Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music. |
| Classical Scores Library Will contain 400,000 pages of classical scores from in-copyright & public domain editions. The major composers' output is represented, plus many lesser known composers & works. Includes works spanning time periods from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Coverage of score types is comprehensive, with full scores, study scores, piano & vocal scores, & piano reductions. |
| Dance in Video (ASP) Dance in Video will contain 250 dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance. |
| Digital Dissertations and Theses (ProQuest) With more than 1.6 million entries, this database is the single, authoritative source for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. |
| Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online The first comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. More than 9,000 pages of material, combined with entries by >700 expert contributors from all over the world, make this the most complete body of work focused on world music. |
| Grove Music Online (Now called Oxford Music Online) Oxford Music Online include all the former Grove publications along with The Oxford Companion to Music and The Oxford Dictionary of Music. |
| Index to Printed Music IPM is the only online resource for finding individual pieces of music printed in standard scholarly editions, with over 307,000 index records of individual music works. |
| International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text IIMP Full Text draws its current content from more than 370 international music periodicals from over 20 countries with over 60 Full Text titles. |
| International Index to the Performing Arts 1998+ Indexes and abstracts for more than 140 international periodicals on the performing arts. |
| Jazz Music Library (streaming) Jazz Music Library will be the largest and most comprehensive collection of jazz available online—with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres. |
| Medici tv Medici.tv offers over 700 programs available on streaming VOD with an unlimited access to the films as long and as often as you wish. |
| Mozart's Complete Works Digitized version of Mozart's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke |
| Naxos Digital Sheet Music Sheet music that can be downloaded and printed from 40,000 editions of classical music and jazz. Requires the download of a separate Solero viewer. Provided by FreeHandMusic.com. |
| North American Indian Drama Contains 172 plays by 33 playwrights, with detailed information on related productions, theaters, production companies and more. The only resource of its kind, documenting contemporary Indian Drama through original essays, reviews, interviews, photographs, production histories & articles. |
| Opera in Video 250 of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. |
| Periodicals Index Online (was Periodical Contents Index) Index to articles in the arts, humanities & social sciences (1770-1995) |
| Play Index Search over 30,000 plays written from Antiquity to the present and published from 1949 to the present. Covers plays written in or translated into English, including mysteries, pageants, plays in verse, puppet performances, radio and television plays, and classic drama. Search by title, author, subject, style, genre, cast type. |
| RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (1967-present) The world's largest, continuously updated bibliography of music literature providing broad international coverage including records in over 202 languages from 5,200 journals. |
| RISM Series A/II: Music Manuscripts after 1600 RISM Series A/II: Music Manuscripts after 1600 is 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 585,559 records by over 20,500 composers from manuscripts found in over 750 libraries and archives in 31 countries. |
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| Theatre in Video Contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, plus more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video. |