Music-Specific Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Etc.

• Oxford Music Online [Oxford University Press]- articles on composers, performers, conductors, instruments and notation, forms and genres, and individual works.

• Music Online: Reference [Alexander Street Press]
  • Classical Scores Library -comprehensive database of classical scores, representing the major composers output, spanning all genres and time periods from the Western classical canon.
  • African American Music Reference - coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.
  • Classical Music Reference Library- coverage of all classical genres, including definitions of musical terms and biographical information on the major classical composers and artists including biographies, chronologies, primary source readings, and critical texts.
  • The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online - music research of all the world's peoples with overview of the region, a survey of its musical heritage, traditions and themes.

Music Online

• Music Online - [Alexander Street Press] listen to music online or send it to your mobile device.
  • American Song
  • Classical Music Library
  • Contemporary World Music
  • Jazz Music Library
  • Smithsonian Global Sound

Art Images

• ARTstor [ARTstor] - digital library of more than one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences.
• Saskia Art Images [Saskia] - more than 32,000 art images from over one hundred museums worldwide.
• CAMIO [OCLC] - more than 95,000 art images from prominent museums around the world.

Books, eBooks, DVDs, CDs, etc.

• Start with PrinCat to search for Principia College library materials.
• Use I-Share to expand your search to include other academic libraries in Illinois. Requested materials usually arrive within 3-5 days.
  
• Use ebrary to search in and read over 50,000 academic eBooks.
• Use WorldCat if you need to expand your search beyond I-Share. WorldCat materials are available through interlibrary loan. They usually arrive within 7-14 days.

Journal Articles

• JSTOR [JSTOR] - academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
• Academic Search Premier [EBSCOHost] - more than 4,600 scholarly, popular, and trade journals from multiple disciplines.
• Project Muse [Johns Hopkins University Press] - select collection of academic journals in the humanities and social sciences.
• Literature Resource Center [Gale Cengage Learning] -  full-text articles, reviews, essays, and overviews on literary topics, authors, and their works.
• For additional resources, see the Find Articles page.

Current Newspapers and Other News Sources

• LexisNexis Academic [LexisNexis] - International, national and local news sources including the Christian Science Monitor and the New York Times.
• Historical Newspapers [ProQuest] - full text coverage of the New York Times from 1851 to 2006 and full text coverage the Christian Science Monitor from 1908 to 1996.
• For additional news sources, see the News Sources page.