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Music Online: Reference - Alexander Street Press          Current File    Updated Quarterly
A comprehensive database of streaming audio, video, reference, and scores on the web. Music Online allows users cross search multiple music databases published by Alexander Street Press. Music Online brings together on a single cross-searchable platform

• African American Music Reference - Contains 50,000 pages that offers the first comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression. This release includes 3,171 essays and images from 80 sources..
• Classical Music Reference Library - Integrates more than 30,000 pages of essential reference materials, spanning the entire history of Western classical music, in a unified online database. Included are the authoritative reference titles Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music, and Women Composers which are available for the first time in electronic form. This release includes 26,774 essays and images from 22 sources.
• Classical Scores Library - Contains 209,140 pages of the most important classical scores and manuscripts, allowing for the study and analysis of more than 15,000 scores. This release includes 11,987 scores.
• The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online - A comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. More than 9,000 pages of material, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world, make this the most complete body of work focused on world music. This release includes 1,210 essays and images from 10 sources and hundreds of audio examples.

Naxos Music Library - Naxos Digital Services                                                    Updated Quarterly
Provides access to more than 616,000 tracks and more than 43,00 CDs with over 2,500 composers represented. Offers the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Da Capo catalogues as well as Jazz and World music and educational products. Naxos has valid licenses with all international public-performance societies allowing Naxos to stream in-copyright musical works. Genres covered include: Classical Music; Contemporary Jazz; Jazz / Folk / Blues Legends; Nostalgia; World / Folk Music; New Age; and Chinese Music. Educational content includes the lives and works of the greatest composers, classical explained, opera explained, instruments of the Orchestra, history of classical music, history of opera, glossary, pronunciation guide, opera synopses and opera libretti. Teaching staff will be able to plan their courses around a wide range of music. The database includes not only practically all standard repertoire, but also a wide range of rare repertoire not available from other sources. Internet Explorer 6.0 or Netscape 7.1 required. Software Specifications.

Naxos Music Library Jazz - Naxos Music Library Current file
One of the most comprehensive collection of Jazz music available online. It offers more than 45,000 tracks of jazz from over 3,800 albums. Over 7000* jazz artists are represented. Naxos Music Library Jazz comprises Naxos Jazz and the 22 labels of Fantasy Jazz. Naxos Jazz, along with Prophone and Proprius, brings you the world of international Jazz, covering Sweden and Scandinavian jazz artists. US-based Fantasy has the world's deepest jazz catalogue and offers the very best in blues and R&B.

Humanities International Index - EBSCO                1975-                Updated Monthly
A comprehensive database covering journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities. Produced  by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), Humanities International Index provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for over 1,700 journals and contains more than 1.6 million records. It includes all data from  American Humanities Index plus bibliographic records from a multitude of international journals, books and reference works. This database provides citations and abstracts for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations. Search Guide | Video Tutorial

DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals - Lund University Libraries, Sweden   Current File     Updated Weekly
This service covers 1642 free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals covering all subjects and languages. Currently 413 journals are searchable at article level. More than 75,000 articles are included in the DOAJ service. Subject areas covered include: Agriculture and Food Sciences, Arts and Architecture, Biology and Life Sciences, Business and Economics, Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Sciences, General Works,  Health Sciences, History and Archaeology, Languages and Literatures, Law and Political Science,  Mathematics and Statistics, Philosophy and Religion, Physics and Astronomy, Science General,  Social Sciences, and Technology and Engineering.

CAIRSS Music Research Literature - Institute for Music Research  Updated Monthly
A bibliographic database of research literature in music education, music psychology, music therapy, and music medicine. Includes citations from 1,354 journal titles. Eighteen primary journals are indexed extensively. Telnet connection via WWW.

Canadian Music Periodical Index - National Library of Canada   1990-   Updated Monthly
A searchable index of more than 30,000 articles from 500 Canadian music journals, newsletters, and magazines from the late nineteenth century to the present. The database focusses on articles and news items on various aspects of musical activity in Canada. In addition, since 1999, significant articles on international music and musicians, published in Canadian periodicals, have been added to the index. WWW Search Guide

MLA International Bibliography (Ebsco) - Modern Language Assn.     1963-            Updated Quarterly
Indexes 4,400 journals and series plus books from 1,000 publishers covering language, literature, and folklore. Includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals which contains information for more than 7,000 language, literature, and folklore journals and series providing addresses, advertising rates, and information about submissions for publication. Search Guide | Video Tutorial

Academic OneFile - Gale                     1995-                                     Updated Daily
Contains more than 3,000 full text journals, including peer-reviewed journals and reference sources with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995.  Search Guide

General OneFile  -  Gale                1980-                Updated Daily
Provides desktop access to more than 6,000 full text periodical titles including 121 wire services; full indexing of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Christian Science Monitor newspapers; and a total of more than 10,000 periodical titles with 25 years of backfile coverage from 1980 to present.  The database uses the same search engine as our other InfoTrac databases.  Content includes more than 508 million records from  periodical and news content and indexing from a variety of mainstream and specialized sources including refereed academic journals. WWW Search Guide

Expanded Academic ASAP - Gale                      1980-                Updated Daily
Access to 3,500+ journals and magazines including more than 2,100 in full text. WWW. Search Guide

Education Journals (ProQuest) ProQuest.    1988-   Updated Monthly
Contains the full text of almost 400 of the leading journals in the education field covering the literature on primary, secondary, and higher education topics. Indexes more than 500 journals.Search Guide

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