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Music Index Online This link opens in a new window
Index to writings on classical and popular music, including scholarly and journalistic publications and reviews of books, recordings, and performances. Covers publications from 1979 to the present. Updated quarterly. See print edition for coverage of writings from 1949 to present.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (1967-Present only) This link opens in a new window
Includes references (most with abstracts) to scholarly writings, including books, articles, and dissertations from 1969 to the present in English and most European languages. Updated monthly.

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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Access the full text for more than 4,000 scholarly publications covering diverse academic areas of study.
Areas of study include social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
ERIC (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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ERIC is a useful database for finding educational information from lots of different sources (journals, magazines, books, conferences, and governmental agencies). It contains resources dating back to 1966 and is helpful when conducting historical research in education.
Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new window
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Humanities International Complete provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for over 1,900 titles, and full text of hundreds of journals books and other publications. The database includes citations and abstracts for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is an electronic archive of complete journal backruns, current to within 2 to 5 years. The collections include: Arts & Sciences I-VIII, Business Collection I-III, Ecology & Botany, General Science, and Language and Literature. For Kent State University, students and faculty now have access to 381 JSTOR journals representing over 2 million articles.
RISM Musical Manuscripts after 1600 This link opens in a new window
The most comprehensive annotated index and guide to music manuscripts produced after 1600. It brings hundreds of thousands of works by thousands of composers into one database. The manuscripts are ...
Web of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new window
Provides access to three multidisciplinary databases covering selected journal literature and conference proceedings in the areas of the arts and humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Updated ...

Dissertations

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Dissertations & Theses Global (ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global) This link opens in a new window
Includes millions of searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and some retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works.
Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center (OhioLINK ETD Center) This link opens in a new window
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Online theses and dissertations from Ohio graduate students. Includes links to full-text.

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Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology This link opens in a new window
Database of citations for completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in musicology, music theory, ethnomusicology, music education, and related disciplines.
WorldCat Dissertations and Theses This link opens in a new window
Provides access to the dissertations and theses available in OCLC member libraries. Many of these are available electronically, at no charge, directly from the publishing institution.

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Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
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The most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It includes 1,000,000+ tracks, including Classical music, Historical recordings, Jazz, World and Folk music. Liner notes are available for some recordings.

Video

Digital Theatre+ This link opens in a new window
Provides online access to a digital streaming video collection of unique films of current, leading British theatre productions. Includes behind-the-scenes documentaries as well as teaching and learning resources to facilitate a deeper understanding of the productions and texts. Learning resources include a detailed introduction, plot summary, character biographies, a relationship map, language analysis, scene study, performance background and historical context for each play.
Kanopy Streaming This link opens in a new window
A by-request streaming video service for educational institutions. The Kanopy platform may not be supported on some devices, such as Chromebooks and mobile devices.
You must download the Kanopy App in order to stream the resources.

Encyclopedias

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Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive music research of all the world's peoples. Contains the full text of the 10 volume print encyclopedia. Each volume covers a geographic region, a survey of its musical heritage, and a ...
Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
Includes full-text of the the Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.), Grove Music Online, the Oxford Companion to Music (2002 revision) and the Oxford Dictionary of Music (2nd ed. rev.).

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IPA Source This link opens in a new window
A large collection of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of art songs and arias originally in Latin, French, Italian, German, and Spanish.
Oxford Handbooks Online: Music This link opens in a new window
Oxford Handbooks Online in Music form a network of reference articles on current scholarship in all areas of music research including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, theory, pedagogy, dance, and technology.
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online This link opens in a new window
This resource offers fully searchable comprehensive bilingual dictionaries and unique study materials that provide extra help with learning languages. Currently includes Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish.

Databases

Directory of Music Faculties This link opens in a new window
Database of music faculty in colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.
Daniels' Orchestral Music Online This link opens in a new window
Daniels’ Orchestral Music Online is a unique orchestral music finder tool and an invaluable resource for orchestral librarians, libraries, planners, musicologists, conductors, and artistic directors.

You can browse the classical repertoire from Karl Friedrich Abel to Ellen Taffee Zwilich and find basic information on composers and instrumentation plus inspiration for advanced programming. You can also search opera arias, duets choruses, and more using the opera excerpts finder.
Gaylord Music Library Musician Necrology This link opens in a new window
Lists death dates for musicians as reported in current media. Updated daily.
IPA Source This link opens in a new window
A large collection of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of art songs and arias originally in Latin, French, Italian, German, and Spanish.

Reviews & Critics

America's News This link opens in a new window
Includes the complete electronic editions of more than 1,500 U.S. news sources and news video clips, covering local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded.
Newspaper Source This link opens in a new window
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Provides selected full text for over 180 regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, newspaper columns and other sources as well as indexing and abstracts for national newspapers. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, FOX News, NPR, etc. This database is updated daily.
New York Times This link opens in a new window
Access news, investigations, opinion, photos and video by the journalists of The New York Times.
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New York Times - Historical This link opens in a new window
Search for New York Times articles published from 1851 up to two years ago. Includes the complete paper with full-page and article images in PDF format. NOTE: if you are looking for current New York Times content, please consult LexisNexis Academic.

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