Finding Information Online

Plenary session, November 2, 2009

Kevin McLaughlin and Emily Laurance

Portals:

British Library. Online Gallery http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/index.html

Cook Music Library. Indiana University. Worldwide Internet Music Resource.

http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources
Internet Archive. http://www.archive.org/index.php
Loeb Music Library. Harvard University. Online Resources for Music Scholars.
http://www-hcl.harvard.edu/research/guides/music/resources/.

American Musicological Society (AMS). Web Sites of Interest to Musicologists.

http://www.ams-net.org/musicology_www.php.

Multimedia sites:

Apple. iTunes U (lectures). http://www.apple.com/education/mobile-learning/
NY Public Library. Digital Collections. http://www.nypl.org/digital/
Musopen http://www.musopen.com/
Library of Congress. American Memory. http://memory.loc.gov

Online Journals:

Journal of the Seventeenth Century http://sscm-jscm.press.illinois.edu/

Text sites:

Project Gutenberg. http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
Alexander Street Press. Classical Music Reference Library. http://bakr.alexanderstreet.com

Scores:

Alexander Street Press. Classical Scores Library** http://shmu.alexanderstreet.com

(User ID: reviewer; Psswd: 48eminence8) UNTIL DEC 2

Choral Public Domain Library. http://www.cpdl.org

Petrucci Music Library. IMSLP http://imslp.org/wiki/
Sheet Music Consortium. http://digital.library.ucla.edu/sheetmusic
University of Chicago Library. Chopin Early Editions. http://chopin.lib.uchicago.edu

University of North Texas Music Library. The Jean-Baptiste Lully Collection. http://www.unt.edu/lully

Audio/ video

Alexander Street Press. Classical Music Library ++ (SFPL)
___________. Opera in Video ** http://opiv.alexanderstreet.com

(User ID: reviewer; Psswd: 48eminence8) UNTIL DEC 2

Naxos. Naxos Music Library ** http://www.naxosmusiclibrary.com/

(User ID: SFCMmm; Psswd: SFCMmm) UNTIL DEC 2

New World Records. Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM)** (on-campus use only)
University of California Santa Barbara. Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project

Images:

ARTstor. http://www.artstor.org

Art Museum Image Gallery.++ (SFPL)
Google Image Search. http://images.google.com
Mark Harden’s Artchive. http://www.artchive.com/ftp_site.htm

Other:
BLOG:

Ross, Alex. Unquiet Noise. (New Yorker, The Rest is Noise) http://www.artchive.com/ftp_site.htm

COMMERCIAL SITES: (used to verify existence of a book, score, or recording)

AbeBooks.com http://www.abebooks.com/

Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com

ArkivMusic.com http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/main.jsp

iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes

isbn.nu http://isbn.nu

Wikipedia List of digital projects:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_digital_library_projects

Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities, Stanford University:

http://www.ccarh.org/

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** SFCM LIBRARY DATABASES (http://www.sfcm.edu/departments/library/databases.aspx)

++ SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY DATABASES http://www.sfpl.org/sfplonline/dbcategories.htm (library card needed!)