Off campus access to most of these databases is restricted to NEC college students, faculty and staff.
American Musicological Society: Links of interest to musicologists.
American Universities: Links to homepages of US and international colleges and universities.
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
Herald, 1991-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.
Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology-Online: Database of completed and in-progress dissertations.
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.
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.
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.
Massachusetts Newsstand: Provides full-text access to current and back issues of 15 major Massachusetts newspapers. Access made possible by funding from the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
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 International Directory of the Performing Arts
Naxos Classical Music Collection: Includes approximately 36,000 recordings which can be listened to on Macs, PCs, or mobile devices with Naxos app.
Obituary File: For musicians.
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.
Oxford Reference Online: Includes 250 language and subject reference works in one cross searchable database.
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.
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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