Online resources : subject listing

Gale NewsVault delivers the definitive cross-searching experience for exploring Gale's range of historical newspaper and collections. Users can simultaneously search or browse across multiple products owned by their institution, including: 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers; 19th Century British Library Newspapers, Parts I and II; 19th Century UK Periodicals, Series I: New Readerships; Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842-2003; Times Digital Archive 1785-1985; Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive 1902-2005; and Picture Post Historical Archive.

Gale NewsVault delivers the definitive cross-searching experience for exploring Gale's range of historical newspaper and collections. Users can simultaneously search or browse across multiple products owned by their institution, including: 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers; 19th Century British Library Newspapers, Parts I and II; 19th Century UK Periodicals, Series I: New Readerships; Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842-2003; Times Digital Archive 1785-1985; Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive 1902-2005; and Picture Post Historical Archive.

Gale NewsVault delivers the definitive cross-searching experience for exploring Gale's range of historical newspaper and collections. Users can simultaneously search or browse across multiple products owned by their institution, including: 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers; 19th Century British Library Newspapers, Parts I and II; 19th Century UK Periodicals, Series I: New Readerships; Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842-2003; Times Digital Archive 1785-1985; Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive 1902-2005; and Picture Post Historical Archive.

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.

A collection of major scholarly works from all areas of the humanities, including online versions of printed works as well as original electronic publications.

Cross-searches on one platform all the audio, video, scores, and full-text reference material from all the Alexander Street Press music products that each institution subscribes to (therefore content will vary).

African American Song is the first online resource to document the history of African American music in an online music listening service. The collection contains a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others.

The British Library's Archival sound recordings website gives UK higher and further education staff and students free access to over 12,000 recordings as follows: 400 popular music tracks (mostly British bands from the 1930s to 1990s); African Writers' Club (250 hours on art, literature, music and politics); Art and design interviews (e.g. Denys Lasdun, Eduardo Paolozzi, Paula Rego); Beethoven string quartets (750 recordings from the last 100 years); David Rycroft Africa recordings (music and poetry, mainly from Southern Africa); Klaus Wachsmann Uganda recordings (1,500 recordings from 26 culture groups); Oral history of jazz in Britain (with musicians, promoters and label-owners); Records and record players (developments in recording technology); Sony Radio Awards - drama (every short-listed play 1986-1997); Soundscapes (evocative environmental sounds from Great Britain and Canada); St Mary-le-Bow public debates (e.g. John Betjeman, Jonathan Miller, Diana Rigg)

Contains bibliographic citations describing items listed on the table of contents pages of more than 13,000 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. 1990 to the present for most journals, 1992 or 1994 to the present for some.

ISI Web of knowledge is an integrated platform designed to support research in academic, corporate, government, and not for profit organizations. ISI citation databases are multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information indexed to be searched by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. They can also be searched for articles that cite a known author or work. Cited reference searching allows use of a given work as if it were a subject term, to identify more recent articles on the same topic.

"Explore ten years of [BBC] Radio 3 on-location recordings from 2000 to the present in the World Music archive, recording the life and musical traditions of countries ranging from Brazil to North Korea and Cuba to Turkmenistan." -- homepage, viewed 13 October 2011.

Cecilia is an on-line guide to music collections in archives, libraries and museums in the UK and Ireland. The project was supported with funding from The British Library Cooperation and Partnership Programme; Museums, Libraries and Archives Council; Research Support Libraries Programme; Music Libraries Trust. Cecilia is administered by The United Kingdom & Ireland Branch of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres- (IAML(UK & Irl)).

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.

Cross-searches on one platform all the audio, video, scores, and full-text reference material from all the Alexander Street Press music products that each institution subscribes to (therefore content will vary).

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.

Cross-searches on one platform all the audio, video, scores, and full-text reference material from all the Alexander Street Press music products that each institution subscribes to (therefore content will vary).

Digital collection includes forty string quartets in parts dating from about 1770 to 1840, most, though not all complete, and representing composers whose works are rarely found in modern editions.

Cross-searches on one platform all the audio, video, scores, and full-text reference material from all the Alexander Street Press music products that each institution subscribes to (therefore content will vary).

Includes citations for over 2.3 million dissertations and theses from around the world, ranging from 1861 to those accepted last semester. Dissertations published from 1980 forward include 350-word abstracts; master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Where available, PQDT provides twenty-four page previews. In addition, more than 750,000 are available for download in PDF format (digital dissertations and theses are archived as submitted by the degree-granting institution).

Gale NewsVault delivers the definitive cross-searching experience for exploring Gale's range of historical newspaper and collections. Users can simultaneously search or browse across multiple products owned by their institution, including: 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers; 19th Century British Library Newspapers, Parts I and II; 19th Century UK Periodicals, Series I: New Readerships; Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842-2003; Times Digital Archive 1785-1985; Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive 1902-2005; and Picture Post Historical Archive.

Provides online access to an extensive collection of general and specialized databases covering a wide range of subject areas. Features links to abstracts, articles, indexes, reviews, and full text of works such as dissertations, journals, reports, and conference proceedings and papers. Links to some OCLC databases.

Gale NewsVault delivers the definitive cross-searching experience for exploring Gale's range of historical newspaper and collections. Users can simultaneously search or browse across multiple products owned by their institution, including: 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers; 19th Century British Library Newspapers, Parts I and II; 19th Century UK Periodicals, Series I: New Readerships; Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842-2003; Times Digital Archive 1785-1985; Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive 1902-2005; and Picture Post Historical Archive.

The Garland encyclopedia of world music online is a comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. Each volume contains an overview of a geographic region, a survey of its musical heritage, and a description of specific musical genres, practices, and performances. Articles include detailed photographs that show musicians, musical instruments, and the cultural context of dances, rituals, and ceremonies. Other images include drawings, maps, and musical examples for further study. Contains the full text of the 10 volume print encyclopedia (originally published in 1997), which is searchable all together for the first time.

"Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries, produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. The collection provides educators, students, and interested listeners with an unprecedented variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms."

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.

A collection of major scholarly works from all areas of the humanities, including online versions of printed works as well as original electronic publications.

Gale NewsVault delivers the definitive cross-searching experience for exploring Gale's range of historical newspaper and collections. Users can simultaneously search or browse across multiple products owned by their institution, including: 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers; 19th Century British Library Newspapers, Parts I and II; 19th Century UK Periodicals, Series I: New Readerships; Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842-2003; Times Digital Archive 1785-1985; Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive 1902-2005; and Picture Post Historical Archive.

A comprehensive listing of theses accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716. Abstracts are included for all theses as of 1986, and selectively from 1970-1986.

ISI Web of knowledge is an integrated platform designed to support research in academic, corporate, government, and not for profit organizations. ISI citation databases are multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information indexed to be searched by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. They can also be searched for articles that cite a known author or work. Cited reference searching allows use of a given work as if it were a subject term, to identify more recent articles on the same topic.

Cross-searches on one platform all the audio, video, scores, and full-text reference material from all the Alexander Street Press music products that each institution subscribes to (therefore content will vary).

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.

Cecilia is an on-line guide to music collections in archives, libraries and museums in the UK and Ireland. The project was supported with funding from The British Library Cooperation and Partnership Programme; Museums, Libraries and Archives Council; Research Support Libraries Programme; Music Libraries Trust. Cecilia is administered by The United Kingdom & Ireland Branch of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres- (IAML(UK & Irl)).

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.

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.

Cross-searches on one platform all the audio, video, scores, and full-text reference material from all the Alexander Street Press music products that each institution subscribes to (therefore content will vary).

The Garland encyclopedia of world music online is a comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. Each volume contains an overview of a geographic region, a survey of its musical heritage, and a description of specific musical genres, practices, and performances. Articles include detailed photographs that show musicians, musical instruments, and the cultural context of dances, rituals, and ceremonies. Other images include drawings, maps, and musical examples for further study. Contains the full text of the 10 volume print encyclopedia (originally published in 1997), which is searchable all together for the first time.

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.

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 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 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.

Gale NewsVault delivers the definitive cross-searching experience for exploring Gale's range of historical newspaper and collections. Users can simultaneously search or browse across multiple products owned by their institution, including: 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers; 19th Century British Library Newspapers, Parts I and II; 19th Century UK Periodicals, Series I: New Readerships; Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842-2003; Times Digital Archive 1785-1985; Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive 1902-2005; and Picture Post Historical Archive.

Contains bibliographic citations describing items listed on the table of contents pages of more than 13,000 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. 1990 to the present for most journals, 1992 or 1994 to the present for some.

Provides online access to an extensive collection of general and specialized databases covering a wide range of subject areas. Features links to abstracts, articles, indexes, reviews, and full text of works such as dissertations, journals, reports, and conference proceedings and papers. Links to some OCLC databases.

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 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 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.

Gale NewsVault delivers the definitive cross-searching experience for exploring Gale's range of historical newspaper and collections. Users can simultaneously search or browse across multiple products owned by their institution, including: 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers; 19th Century British Library Newspapers, Parts I and II; 19th Century UK Periodicals, Series I: New Readerships; Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842-2003; Times Digital Archive 1785-1985; Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive 1902-2005; and Picture Post Historical Archive.

Includes citations for over 2.3 million dissertations and theses from around the world, ranging from 1861 to those accepted last semester. Dissertations published from 1980 forward include 350-word abstracts; master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Where available, PQDT provides twenty-four page previews. In addition, more than 750,000 are available for download in PDF format (digital dissertations and theses are archived as submitted by the degree-granting institution).

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.

"Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries, produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. The collection provides educators, students, and interested listeners with an unprecedented variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms."

Cross-searches on one platform all the audio, video, scores, and full-text reference material from all the Alexander Street Press music products that each institution subscribes to (therefore content will vary).

The Serials Union Catalogue for the UK research community is a free tool to help researchers and librarians locate serials held in the UK. The catalogue contains information on both print and electronic serials, including journals, periodicals, newspapers, newsletters, magazines, proceedings, annual reports and other publications of a continuing nature.

Gale NewsVault delivers the definitive cross-searching experience for exploring Gale's range of historical newspaper and collections. Users can simultaneously search or browse across multiple products owned by their institution, including: 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers; 19th Century British Library Newspapers, Parts I and II; 19th Century UK Periodicals, Series I: New Readerships; Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842-2003; Times Digital Archive 1785-1985; Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive 1902-2005; and Picture Post Historical Archive.

Gale NewsVault delivers the definitive cross-searching experience for exploring Gale's range of historical newspaper and collections. Users can simultaneously search or browse across multiple products owned by their institution, including: 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers; 19th Century British Library Newspapers, Parts I and II; 19th Century UK Periodicals, Series I: New Readerships; Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842-2003; Times Digital Archive 1785-1985; Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive 1902-2005; and Picture Post Historical Archive.

ISI Web of knowledge is an integrated platform designed to support research in academic, corporate, government, and not for profit organizations. ISI citation databases are multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information indexed to be searched by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. They can also be searched for articles that cite a known author or work. Cited reference searching allows use of a given work as if it were a subject term, to identify more recent articles on the same topic.

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.

WorldCat is a worldwide union catalog created and maintained collectively by more than 9,000 member institutions. With millions of online records built from the bibliographic and ownership information of contributing libraries, it is the largest and most comprehensive database of its kind.

"Explore ten years of [BBC] Radio 3 on-location recordings from 2000 to the present in the World Music archive, recording the life and musical traditions of countries ranging from Brazil to North Korea and Cuba to Turkmenistan." -- homepage, viewed 13 October 2011.

The newly funded ZETOC service provides Z39.50-compliant access to the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents (ETOC). The database contains details of approximately 20,000 current journals and 16,000 conference proceedings published per year. With almost 15 million article and conference records, the database covers every imaginable subject in science, technology, medicine, engineering, business, law, finance and the humanities. The database covers the years from 1993 to date and is updated daily. A list of journal titles covered by the database is available. Copies of all the articles and conference papers listed on the database are available from the British Library's Document Supply Centre in Yorkshire.