Library Resources

Library Catalog
Locate books, videos/DVDs, CDs, government documents, and magazine/journal titles
available at Augustana and other libraries throughout South Dakota.

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts	JSTOR
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature A comprehensive international guide to writings about music, RILM's coverage includes all types and aspects of music. Featuring articles written in over 100 languages, RILM includes well over a quarter million entries. All scholarly works are covered, including articles from more than 5200 journals, as well as books, conference proceedings, dissertations, Festschriften, reviews, catalogues, and more. ERIC Spanning 1966-present, ERIC is the primary database for educational research and consists of two subsets; JIE (Journals in Education) and RIE (Resources in Education). It is especially good for teachers. Use either the Cambridge Scientific Abstracts interface or go to the U.S. Dept. of Education website	With the full text appearing as an exact image of the page from the journal, JSTOR includes the complete run of such core music journals as Musical times, Cambridge Opera Journal, and Journal of Musicology .
	Project MUSE
	Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.
	Academic Search Premier Indexes over 65 journals in the field of Music, many of them available in full text.
Naxos Music Library
Naxos Music Library is a unique resource, giving students online access to the entire Naxos catalogue of recordings, plus others. Through a sophisticated online search engine, researchers can select works by composer, artist, period, year of composition, instrument or genre. Playlists can also be easily created for educational use, or for hours of continuous enjoyment. While listening, music lovers can read insightful information about the works, artists and composers. Naxos's new releases (currently around 200 CDs per year) are continually added to ensure that the music library is always complete and up-to-date.

 

 

Internet Resources

Music Publishers' Association
The MPA Copyright Resource Center provides a step-by-step guide to researching
a piece of music, a copyright holder, or a publisher. The Search Center also provides
forms for obtaining permission from publishers to arrange a piece of music or make
copies from out-of-print music.

All Music Guide
The world's largest and most comprehensive entertainment information database
for music, videos, DVDs and video games, All Media Guide offers expert reviews,
biographies, ratings, images, titles, credits, and thousands of descriptive categories.

Red Hot Jazz Archive
A searchable multimedia history of jazz before 1930.

Classical Composers' Archive (If your browser is set to block pop-ups, hold down the Control key while you click on the link)
An extensive collection of composers from around the world, from 1500's to now.

For comments/questions contact: lisa.brunick@augie.edu

Last modified: September 10, 2007