Oxford Music OnlineThis link opens in a new windowCompendium of music scholarship offering the full texts of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd Edition (2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd Edition (2001), as well as all subsequent updates and emendations.
Sims Memorial Library also owns the corresponding print editions:
TITLE: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
LOCATION: REFERENCE ROOM
CALL NUMBER: ML 100 .N48 2001
LIBRARY HAS: v.1-29
TITLE: The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz
LOCATION: REFERENCE ROOM
CALL NUMBER: ML 102 .J3 N48 2002
LIBRARY HAS: v.1-3
TITLE: The New Grove Dictionary of Opera
LOCATION: REFERENCE ROOM
CALL NUMBER: ML 102 .O6 N5 1992
LIBRARY HAS: v.1-4
TITLE: The New Oxford Companion to Music
LOCATION: REFERENCE ROOM
CALL NUMBER: ML 100 .N5
LIBRARY HAS: v.1-2
TITLE: The Oxford Dictionary of Music
LOCATION: REFERENCE ROOM
CALL NUMBER: ML 100 .K35 1994
Music Index OnlineThis link opens in a new windowIndexes articles published in more than 690 international music periodicals on a broad range of classical and popular music subjects. In addition, this resource indexes book, music, score and performance reviews, and includes first performance and obituary information.
Sims Memorial Library also owns the following corresponding print index:
TITLE: Music Index
LOCATION: Reference Room
CALL NUMBER: ML 118 .M4
LIBRARY HAS: v.1(1949)-present
RILM Abstracts of Music LiteratureThis link opens in a new windowRILM contains records in over 200 languages; entries include original-language titles, title translations in English, full bibliographic information, and abstracts in English, as well as author, journal, and in-depth subject indexes. RILM covers music and other subjects as they relate to music.
Academic Search CompleteThis link opens in a new windowAcademic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 9,810 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
Arts & Humanities Citation IndexThis link opens in a new windowProvides indexing and abstracts from over 1,700 of the leading arts and humanities journals, as well as selected items over 250 scientific and social sciences journals. Links to full text of articles when available through Sims Library.
JSTORThis link opens in a new windowArts and humanities database on language and literature, music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, and the study of art and architecture.
Project MUSEThis link opens in a new windowCovers literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, etc. Contains current full text scholarly journals which cover these fields and a significant collection of recent scholarly books.
ERICThis link opens in a new windowDatabase: via EBSCOhost; Accessible with a UNMC NetID. "ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. The database contains more than 1.3 million records and provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index."
Dissertations & Theses Global (ProQuest)This link opens in a new windowOffers more than 1.7 million full-text dissertations in the humanities, social sciences, technology and more. Full-text available.
Additional information on the database content and searching can be found on the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses LibGuide [Link to http://proquest.libguides.com/pqdt]
WorldCatThis link opens in a new windowSearch for books, videos, and more from libraries worldwide.
Steaming Music
Naxos Music LibraryThis link opens in a new windowNaxos Music Library [NML] is the world´s largest online classical music library. Currently, it offers streaming access to more than 107,410 CDs with more than 1,565,400 tracks of both standard and rare repertoire. Over 800 new CDs are added to the library every month.
BroadwayHDThis link opens in a new windowBroadwayHD currently includes a small collection of the following plays: Cyrano De Bergerac, The Woodsman, She Loves Me, Old Hats, Buried Child, and Romeo and Juliet.
Streaming Video
Academic Video Online: PremiumThis link opens in a new windowAcademic Video Online: Premium consists of thousands of streaming videos from a large number of produces and distributors across a wide range of subject areas, including art, architecture, business, counseling and therapy, dance, economics, education, ethnic studies, ethnography, gay and lesbian studies, health, history, humanities, law and public safety, literature, opera, philosophy, political science, psychology, religion, science, theater, women's studies, and more.
Films on Demand: Digital Educational VideoThis link opens in a new windowStreaming video from a number of producers, including Films for Humanities & Sciences, BBC, PBS,TED, Ken Burns, MacNeil Lehrer Productions, National Geographic, and other production companies. Videos can be browsed by collection, producer, and other categories or searched using Boolean operators from the Advanced Search page.
The Master Academic Video Collection contains over 20,000 educational streaming videos from a broad range of academic subjects. Topics include Health and Medicine, Biology, Physical Science, Mathematics, Anthropology, Psychology, Sociology, Criminal Justice, Political Science, English, Music & Dance, and other subjects.
From one of our Streaming Video Collections, Academic Video Online: Premium
