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Finding Music in Databases
This is a list of Interdisciplinary databases which coverage includes music.
Note: In progress, please cut and paste a database title into the MetaLib Find Database title search box below, or click here for a similar list of interdisciplinary music, arts, cultural, and humanities databases.
- 19th Century Index
- Abbreviationes Online
- Academic Search - Broad, interdisciplinary database of popular and scholarly periodical and other articles and citations.
- Accessible Archives - American newspapers from the 18th & 19th centuries
- American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I
- American National Biography
- American Periodical Series - 1000 magazines published between 1741 and 1900
- America's Historical Newspapers (formerly Early American Newspapers) - Early American newspapers published between 1690 and 1922
- Analecta Hymnica Online
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Who's Citing Articles)
- ArchiveGrid - Finding Aids for archival collections from libraries, museums, and collections worldwide
- ArchivesUSA - Manuscript collections in the U.S.
- Bible In English
- Bibliography of Asian Studies
- Biography Databases
- Biography and Genealogy Master Index
- Biography Index
- Biography Resource Center - Reference Content (Compilation of more than 427,000 biographies from 135 print biographical dictionaries)
- Black Studies Database
- Book Review Digest
- Book Review Index
- Books In Print (paste title into Find Database)
- Britannica Online
- Catholic Periodical & Literature Index Online
- Center for Research Libraries - A Library for Libraries; Yale's membership allows ILL borrowing privileges
- Chicano Database
- Database of Latin Dictionaries
- Dissertations
Index to Theses ... Accepted for Higher Degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland
Universal Index of Doctoral Dissertations in Progress
- Ductus: an online course in paleography
- Early American Imprints: Series I
- Early American Imprints: Series II
- Early Canadiana Online
- Early English Books Online
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online
- Eighteenth century journals II
- Encyclopædia Britannica
- Essay and General Literature Index
- Factiva
- Facts on File World News Digest
- FRANCIS
- Gale Literary Databases (Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select (CLC Select) and Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB)) - Iin-depth information on the lives and writings of nearly 100,000 authors along with critical reaction to their works.
- Gale Literary Index - Index to author names, including pseudonyms and variant names
- Gale Virtual Reference Library - A database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources
- Gale's Ready Reference Shelf - Directories for associations, research centers, publishers, publications (ranging from newspapers and newsletters to periodicals and directories), databases, television and radio stations and more.
- Hagiography Database
- Handbook of Latin American Studies
- Hispanic American Periodicals Index
- Historical Newspapers
Historical Newspapers Complete
Atlanta Constitution (1868 - 1925)
Boston Globe (1872 - 1922)
Chicago Tribune (1849 - 1985)
Christian Science Monitor (1908 - 1992)
Los Angeles Times (1881 - 1985)
The New York Times (1851 - 2002)
The Wall Street Journal (1889 - 1988)
The Washington Post (1877 - 1989) - History Online (Historical Newspapers Online)
- Humanities Abstracts Full Text
- IBZ Online (German-Language Journal Articles)
- In Principio
- Index of Christian Art
- Index to Theses ... Accepted for Higher Degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland
- International Dictionary of Ballet via Gale's Ready Reference Shelf
- International Dictionary of Modern Dance via Gale's Ready Reference Shelf
- International Medieval Bibliography
- ITER: The Bibliography of Renaissance Europe, 1300-1700
- JSTOR (Journal Storage Project) (Retrospective Full-text Journals)
- King James Bible
- Lexis-Nexis Academic - Full-text news source that includes worldwide newspapers, newsletters, news magazines, wire services, radio & television transcripts,
- Library Literature (Articles on Libraries)
- Library of Latin Texts
- Literature Compass
- Marquis Biographies Online
- Medieval Encyclopaedias & Bibliographies (Brepolis)
- Medieval Studies - Click here for more resources
- MLA Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
- Monumenta Germaniae Historica
- netLibrary Reference Center
- New Catholic Encyclopedia
- News or Newspapers (copy and paste into Find Database)
- News Resources (note: not in MetaLib)
- Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers
- Opera del Vocabolario Italiano
- Oral History Online
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edition
- Oxford Reference Online
- ProQuest Newspapers
- Patrologia Latina
- The performing arts in colonial American newspapers, 1690-1783 [computer file] : text data base and index (on CD-ROM; search for title in Orbis)
- Periodicals Archives Online (ProQuest)
- Periodicals Contents Index
- Perseus Project
- Project Muse (Full-text Journals - Recent Years)
- Readers' Guide
- Readers' Guide Abstracts Full Text
- Reference Universe
- St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
- Times Digital Archive
- Times of London
- ulrichsweb.com (Verify Periodical Titles and Information)
- ViVa: A Bibliography of Women's History
- WilsonWeb (Journal Articles & Citations)
- Women Writers Online
- World Biographical Index
- World Shakespeare Bibliography
- WorldCat (Union Catalog of Libraries)
- Xipolis German Reference Collection
- xreferplus (Reference Tools)
- Yale University Library Finding Aid Database - Contents of the Yale's archival collections
- Yale Online Reference Resources (Many General Reference Tools: Quotations, Calculators, Grants, and more)