Off campus access to most of these databases is restricted to NEC college students, faculty and staff.
Academic OneFile:full-text articles from journals and reference sources, including coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, and literature.
Alan Lomax Collection: includes online access to thousands of songs and interviews recorded by Lomax, folklorist, ethnomusicologist, and renowned collector of folk music in the 20th Century.
American Musicological Society: Links of interest to musicologists.
American Universities: Links to homepages of US and international colleges and universities.
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians: Access made possible by funding from the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
Bibliographie des Musikschrifttums: German index to music literature published since 1986. Earlier coverage back to 1936 only available in print; these volumes can be found on the Reference Shelf (call number: Ref. ML113.B5)
Biography in Context: Quick reference information on over 900,000 people.
Boosey & Hawkes Online Scores: Full scores from the Boosey & Hawkes catalog available for viewing (not printing or downloading). Create your own account for free.
Boston Business Journal: Provides access to 40 business journals published throughout the U.S.
Boston Globe, 1980- Access made possible by funding from the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners
Boston Online: Local information resource.
Britannica Online: The Encyclopedia Brittanica, with links to over 130,000 web sites.
Citing Electronic Information: Compiled by the Internet Public Library.
Credo Reference: Major collection of encyclopedias and dictionaries which support research in the humanities and sciences.
Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology-Online: Database of completed and in-progress dissertations.
DRAM: Streaming audio collection of scholarly contemporary American music
EBRARY: Collection of 44,000 electronic books, including several hundred on music subjects.
Expanded Academic ASAP : Indexes primarily non-music journals; includes many with full text.
General Reference Center: Access made possible by the Massachusetts Library and Information Network, a service of the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners; funded by the State of Massachusetts.
Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music
IMSLP Petrucci Music Library: digitized collection of over 47,000 works in public domain.
IPASource: Includes over 5000 International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts.
The Jazz Discography: Covers all categories of recorded jazz, from 1896 to today, including Traditional, Swing, Bop, Modern, Avant-Garde, Fusion, Third Stream etc. Access only available ON CAMPUS.
JSTOR: Archival collection of 33 full text music journals
Lied, Art Song and Choral Texts Page: A very useful archive of Art song and Lieder texts in approximately 20 languages. May be searched by composer, poet, titles, and first lines. Many, but not all, also have English translations. Created and maintained by Emily Ezust.
Merriam-Webster's WWWebster Dictionary and Thesaurus
MLA Copyright Page: American copyright laws for music.
Music Index Online: International index to 850 music periodicals, currently covering the period 1970-2010. Note: Citations from the period 1949-1969 are in print only; these volumes are to be found on the table in the Reading Room (call number: Ref. ML118 .M86).
Music Research Databases: Compiled by William and Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University School of Music.
Musical America Worldwide Directory of the Performing Arts
Musicians' Necrology: Obituary list compiled by the Gaylord Music Library at Washington University.
Naxos Music Library: Includes approximately 36,000 recordings in all genres which can be listened to on Macs, PCs, or mobile devices with Naxos app.
Naxos Video Library: Over 1400 full-length videos featuring opera, ballet and theater.
New York Times, 1985- Access made possible by funding from the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
OCLC FirstSearch: Includes access to Art Abstracts, Books-in-Print, Dissertation Abstracts, ERIC,Readers Guide, and WorldCat (The OCLC Online Union Catalog) . Go to Reference Desk for access.
Online Resources for Music Scholars:Comprehensive list of digital score sources
Orchestral Music Online: Index to information on more than 6,700 orchestral works, including instrumentation, duration and availability.
RILM: Comprehensive index to all literature about music published since 1969 (currently covers 1969—present). Includes abstracts in English for journal articles, dissertations, conference reports and monographs published throughout the world.
RIPM: Retrospective index to music periodicals, 1800-1950; includes links to full-text journals in the RIPM Online Archive.
RIPM Online Archive: Full-text archive of over 100 journals published between 1800-1950.
RISM: International inventory of music manuscripts, 1600-1800.
Rock's Back Pages: Includes live interviews and several thousand articles on rock artists written during the last 50 years.
WorldCat: World's largest network of library content and services
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MILES DAVIS