• General
  • Academic Search Complete -- The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for more than 4,000 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,100 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCO host.
    
    
  • Arts & Humanities Citation Index in Web of Science -- The online version of Arts and Humanities Citation Index; includes indexing and abstracting of more than 1,000 scholarly journals in the Arts and Humanities. (1975-)
    
    
  • World Cat -- A catalog of library holdings worldwide.
    
    
• Indexes to Music Literature
  
  • Music Index Online -- An index to 640 international music journals (1976- ).
    

Print Indexes


Music Index -- 1-7 1949-55, #8# 1956, 9-15 1957-63, 17- 1965- 1999 [ML 118.M84 INDEX]

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature -- 1-30 1967-96 [ML 118.R544 INDEX]

Major Reference Works


• The New Grove dictionary of music and musicians [REF ML100 .N48]
  
• The New Grove dictionary of American music [REF ML101.U6 N48 1986]
  
• The new Grove dictionary of jazz [REF ML102.J3 N48 1994]
  
• The New Grove dictionary of opera [REF ML102.O6 N5 1997]
  
• The Garland encyclopedia of world music
  v. 1. Africa -- v. 2. South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean -- v. 3. The United States and Canada -- v. 4. Southeast Asia -- v. 5. South Asia, the Indian subcontinent -- v. 6. The Middle East -- v. 7. East Asia : China, Japan, and Korea -- v. 8. Europe / Timothy Rice, James Porter, and Chris Goertzen, editors -- v. 9. Australia and the Pacific Islands – v.10 The world's music ; general perspectives and reference tools. Vols 1-9 are accompanied by CDs [REF ML100 .G16 1998]
  
• Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart; allgemeine Enzyklopaedia der Musik
  [REF ML100 .M92]
  
• The Guinness encyclopedia of popular music [REF ML102.P66 G84 1995 ]
  
• The literature of chamber music [REF ML1100 .C63 1997]
  
  

Megasites


• Yahoo Music Page
• Google Web Directory -- Music
• The Internet Public Library -- Music Resources
• The American Musicological Society's WWW Sites of Interest to Musicologists
• LSU Music Webliography
• Indiana University School of Music -- Worldwide Internet Music Resources
• The classical music department of the WWW Virtual Library
• Classical Net
• JazzWeb's Other Jazz Resources on the Net
• The Classical Music Navigator
• The All Music Guide

Audio Resources

The library’s collection of recordings is housed in the Multimedia Collection on the third floor (LIB 320). The focus of this collection is classical and jazz, supporting the programs offered by the UNO Music Dept.


Compact discs are listed in the library’s catalog, iLink. Five CDs can be checked out at one time by any authorized UNO user – students, faculty, special borrowers. The Multimedia Collection also provides CD players and headphones, so that the CDs may be listened to onsite.


The library also has a number of collections of vinyl LPs. These may be checked out only by UNO faculty, but the Multimedia Collection provides turntables and headphones, so that all library users may listen to the LPs onsite. For the most part the library’s vinyl collection is not listed in iLink, but here are some of the individual collections for which printed lists are available:

• The Von der Haar Collection – Over 3000 recordings, mostly classical with an emphasis on opera recordings. A printed list is available in the Multimedia Collection.
  
• The Palmisano Collection – Over 1400 recordings, mostly Broadway and movie musicals before 1990. A printed list is available in the Multimedia Collection.
  
• The Coker Collection – Over 700 recordings, mostly jazz with some classical. A printed list is available in the Multimedia Collection.
  
• The Nozaki Collection – Over 700 recordings, mostly jazz. A printed list will be available soon in the Multimedia Collection.
  
• The Felix R. Noble Collection – Over 1800 recordings mostly jazz and vocalists. A printed list is available in the Multimedia Collection and here.

UNO Music Department