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Music Databases

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
This online journal archive contains the full text of over 60 important music journals.
Full-text content is available in PDF format. Coverage provided in most cases back to a journal's first date of issue but most recently published issues are not available. UCA Library currently has access to JSTOR Arts and Sciences 1-14, Jewish Studies, and Life Sciences.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Provides access to academic full-text articles humanities and social sciences.
Full text content is available in PDF format. UCA subscribes to the Standard Collection.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new window
Provides access to academic citations, abstracts, and subject indexing for all areas of study in music.
Content includes original-language titles with title translations in English, full bibliographic information, and abstracts in English, as well as author, journal, and in-depth subject indexes. Coverage dates 1835 to present. Published by Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale, New York.
Grove Music Online This link opens in a new window
Provides access to reference articles and topic overviews in music.

○ Usage Note Limited to 8 users at a time.
Full-text content is available in HTML format. Content includes the full-text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition; The New Grove Dictionary of Opera; and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd edition, the Oxford Companion to Music and the Oxford Dictionary of Music, and linking from Grove articles to RILM.
Naxos Sheet Music This link opens in a new window
Provides access to original published editions of sheet music.
Content can be downloaded and printed.

Audio/Video Streaming Databases

Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
Provides access to streaming audio of classical recordings, world music, jazz, and national anthems.
○ Usage Note: Limited to 5 users at a time.
Content includes full-text of overviews of music history, program notes for recordings, and libretti of operas.
Naxos Music Library - Jazz This link opens in a new window
Provides access to streaming audio of contemporary jazz.
○ Usage Note: Limited to 2 users at a time.
Content is fully searchable and includes records from a number of recording labels.
Naxos Video Library This link opens in a new window
Provides access to streaming video of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts and documentaries.
○ Usage Note: Limited to 2 users at a time.