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Academic OneFile

A source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources, with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.  Millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text.  Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.

Academic Search Elite
Contains full text for more than 2,000 journals, including more than 1,550 peer-reviewed titles. This multi-disciplinary database covers virtually every area of academic study.

Arts and Humanities Search
Indexing of 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals.  Citation Index allows searching of bibliographies

Humanities Abstracts
Contains citations from more than 600 periodicals in archaeology and classical studies, area studies, communication, folklore, history, language, literature, performing and visual arts, philosophy, religion and theology.

JSTOR
An archive of more than 1200 core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Fulltext back to their date of first publication to within the current 2-5 years.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
Published by Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale, New York.  Citations and abstracts to journal articles, books, commentaries, conference proceedings, dissertations, festschriften, reviews, internet resources, motion pictures, sound recordings and technical drawings of musical instruments are all covered. Contains records in over 200 languages.

Rock's Back Pages
Archive of reviews, interviews, and feature stories on current and past rock musicians from major music publications.

Biographical Information

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. Call Number: REF ML 105 .B16 2001 (6 vols.)
Includes references and discographies

Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music

Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

Baker's Dictionary of Music. Call Number: REF ML 100 .S635 1997

Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World: Media, Industry and Society

Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World: Performance and Production

Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music

Grove Music Online.
Access to this database is limited to 5 simultaneous users at a time.  (If you are prompted for a login or password, please try accessing the database at a later time).

New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Call Number: REF ML 100 .N48 2001 (29 vols.)
The content in this outstanding reference source is also contained in the Grove Music Online (listed above).   Both versions represents the definitive scholarly refeference source for the music student and scholar.

Harvard Dictionary of Music

New Penguin Dictionary of Music

Specialized Sources

Naxos Music Library
An extensive collection of Classical, Jazz, World, Folk, and Chinese music recordings.  Users can also read notes about the music and biographical information about the composers while listening to the recordings.

Web Sites

Historic American Sheet Music
From the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.  Provides access to digital images of over 3000 pieces of published in the United States between 1850 and 1920.  "Outstanding Title![internet resource]."   CHOICE Reviews, March 2001.

The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music
At Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Johns Hopkins University.  An index to 29,000 pieces of American sheet music published between 1780 and 1980.  An image of the cover and each page of music is retrieved if it was published before 1923 and is in the public domain.  "Outstanding Title! [internet source]"  CHOICE Reviews, October, 2000.