Music Databases
Academic Search Complete - Multi-disciplinary database provides full text for nearly 7,300 scholarly publications with coverage in virtually every subject area updated daily. Academic Search Premier is a section of this database.
Academic Search Premier (AVL) - Multi-disciplinary database provides full text for nearly 3,500 scholarly publications with coverage in virtually every subject area updated daily. Academic Search Elite is a section of this database.
African American Music Reference - Text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies illustrating the musical heritage of African Americans.
American Music - Part of Music Online package, information and recording regarding all varieties of American music.
Becomeopedia.com - Description about various professions, the process and training needed to become a particular profession, along with salary and potential career paths.
CareerOneStop - Tools to help job seekers, students, businesses, and career professionals.
Classical Music Library - Part of Music Online package; information and musical recordings regarding classical music.
Contemporary World Music - Part of Music Online package; information and recording regarding contemporary sounds from all over the world.
CORE – COnnecting REpositories - Open access research outputs from repositories and journals throughout the world.
Documenting the American South - Sixteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs related to southern history, literature, and culture.
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) - Collection of electronic books (e-books) which are also accessible via HORNETCat. Formerly known as NetLibrary.
EBSCOhost Electronic Journal Service - Gateway to electronic journal articles that can be searched by subject, title, author or text word.
Gale OneFile: Fine Arts (AVL) - Journal articles related to drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.
General OneFile (AVL) - Comprehensive news and periodical article source from 1980 to the present.
Google Scholar - Search engine specifically for scholarly journal articles, books, dissertations, and technical reports.
Great 78 Project - Digitized 78rpm discs representing a variety of musical styles.
Grove Music Online - Central location for Grove Music Online, Oxford Companion to Music, and Oxford Dictionary of Music.
Jazz History Database - Interactive multimedia museum focused on artists deserving of wider recognition and dedicated to the preservation of “at-risk” artifacts.
Jazz Music Library - Part of Music Online package; information and musical recordings from jazz artists, ensembles, albums and genres.
Learn How to Become Guide - Resource to explore career options in order to determine career path.
Liedernet Archive - Extensive archive of texts to over 80,000 settings of Leider and other classical arts songs.
MLA Bibliography with Full-Text - Bibliography of Modern Language Association journal articles, books, and dissertations.
MLA Directory of Periodicals - Offers detailed information on over 7,000 periodicals including editorial contact information, frequency, circulation, subscription prices, and submission guidelines.
National Jukebox - Publicly-accessible historical sound recordings.
Petrucci Music Library - Virtual library of public domain music, especially classical music.
ProQuest Digital Dissertations and Theses Open - Full text of open access dissertations and theses in a variety of disciplines and the complete text is freely accessible in PDF format. The authors of these dissertations and theses have opted to publish as open access.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses - Contains citations for dissertations starting with 1861, abstracts for dissertations from 1980, abstracts for master's theses from 1988, and full-text access to dissertations (via PDF) from 1997 to the present. Previously named Digital Dissertations.
Smithsonian Global Music - Part of Music Online package; virtual encyclopedia of world’s musical and aural traditions.