Guides: Music e-book Collections: Music e-book collections

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Music e-book collections

ACLS Humanities Ebooks
- American Council of Learned Societies collection
- Access more than 5,700 scholarly eBooks
Brill Online
- Publications focus on the Humanities and Social Sciences, International Law and selected areas in the Sciences
- Offers reference works and primary source materials, including prestigious publications such as the Encyclopedia of Islam, Brill’s New Pauly and The Hague Academy Collected Courses
Cambridge Core
- Home of academic content from Cambridge University Press
- Contains more than 1.8 million journal articles and 46,000+ books
- Browse the music titles
Cambridge Companions to Music
- Provide authoritative yet accessible information on composers, genres, instruments and other musical topics
Duke University
- Provides access to over 3,000 e-books in the humanities and social sciences
- Browse the music titles
EBSCOhost
- Provides access to eBooks from a wide range of disciplines
- Multi-publisher platform
- Full downloads possible for many books
ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online
- Significant collection of 18th-century English and foreign-language books, pamphlets, broadsides, and ephemera printed in UK, the United States, and countries under British colonial rule
- Full-text search available
EEBO: Early English Books Online
- Collection of almost every work printed in the British Isles and North America, as well as works in English printed elsewhere from 1470-1700
- Full-text search of entire collection available
Google Books
- Repository of digitized texts provided by library partners and participating publishers
- Full text is available for materials in the public domain
- Access to items under copyright varies from full text to "no preview," depending on agreements with the copyright holders
HathiTrust
- A not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items
- Offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law, computational access to the entire corpus for scholarly research, and other emerging services based on the combined collection
- Search the collection in several ways: catalogue record and full-text across the collection or within a single item
IEEE Electronic Library Online (IEEEXplore) (Engineering)
- Provides web access to more than five million full-text documents from some of the world's most highly-cited publications in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Electronics
Internet Archive
- Digital collection of public domain materials, including archives and published media from university collections around the world
- Includes sound recordings, scores, books, and other materials
- Public domain materials can be downloaded
- Offers full-text searching within documents and across the collection
JSTOR
- Provides full-text access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines (including music)
- Advanced search function allows users to filter by item type, language, publication date, journal or publication title, and discipline
Oxford Bibliographies: Music
- Book-length bibliographies provide an authoritative guide to current scholarship, containing original commentary and annotations
- Interface guides users directly to relevant information; provides personalized citation lists and links to full-text print and online content
- Bibliographies are written and reviewed by academic experts
Oxford Handbooks Online: Music
- Handbooks offer thorough introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship
- Covers a wide range of music research including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, theory, pedagogy, dance, and technology
- Video tutorial demonstrates the resource's key features and provides search tips: https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/page/take-a-tour
Oxford University Press Online (UPSO, OUP)
- Offers access to thousands of academic works from Oxford University Press and scholarly partner presses, covering subjects across the humanities, social sciences, sciences, medicine, music, and law
- Browse the music titles
Project Muse
- E-books from nearly 100 scholarly presses (see complete list)
- Browse the music titles
ProQuest Ebook Central
- Provides authoritative ebooks in a range of subjects from top scholarly publishers
- Interactive and collaborative platform: read online; search within ebooks; highlight, take notes, and bookmark pages in your online copy (stored on your bookshelf for you); download ebooks and chapters to your laptop or mobile device
Springer
- Provides access to millions of scientific documents from journals, books, series, protocols, reference works and proceedings
- Disciplines include science, technology, medicine, and music, among others
Taylor & Francis
- Access eBooks in science, technology, engineering, medical, humanities and social science
- Multi-publisher platform including Ashgate, Focal, and Routledge
- Platform allow users to: search ebook content at both the book and chapter level, filter search results by subject area, publication date and year published, and create citations in APA format
University of California Press Scholarship Editions
- Includes almost 2,000 books (published between 1982-2004) from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction
- Browse the open access music titles
UPSO: University Press Scholarship Online (E-book distributor of several university presses (see complete list) including Oxford, University of California, and University of Chicago. Browse the music titles)