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 of approximately 5,000 titles)
Brill Online
Cambridge Core (Browse the music titles)
Cambridge Companions to Music (Cambridge Companions to Music provide authoritative yet accessible information on composers, genres, instruments and other musical topics, written with the student, performer and general music lover in mind)
Duke University (Archives (pre-2008) to 2017. Browse the music titles)
EBSCOhost (Multi-publisher platform)
ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online (Significant English and foreign-language books, pamphlets, broadsides, ephemera printed in UK, and "important works" from the Americas, 1701-1800)
EEBO: Early English Books Online (All books published in England and books in English printed in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and British North America, 1475-1700)
Google Books (A 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 historical digital preservation repository that provides access to content in the public domain and copyrighted content from a variety of sources, including partner institutions such as McGill)
IEEE Electronic Library Online (IEEEXplore) (Engineering)
Internet Archive (Public domain materials including archives and published media from university collections around the world).
JSTOR (Multi-publisher platform)
Oxford Bibliographies: Music (Peer-reviewed and annotated music bibliographies)
Oxford Handbooks Online: Music (Reference articles on current scholarship in all areas of music research including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, theory, pedagogy, dance, and technology)
Oxford University Press Online (UPSO, OUP)
Project Muse (E-books from nearly 100 scholarly presses (see complete list)). Browse the music titles)
ProQuest Ebook Central (Multi-publisher platform)
Safari (Technology and business)
Skillsoft (Formerly Books24X7; Technology)
Springer (Science, technology, medicine, music etc. including Palgrave)
Taylor & Francis (Multi-publisher platform including Ashgate, Focal, Routledge, etc.)
University of California Press Scholarship Editions (Browse the open access music titles. See also UPSO below)
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)