Research Databases

Research Databases by Subject

Music

• Hathi Trust — The largest set of open access ebooks, with millions of titles, covering a broad set of scholarly interests.
• Library of Congress — The most extensive multidisciplinary, primary and secondary source collections in the world that include over 171 million resources in various formats.
• Making of America — Cornell University’s cultivated open access collection of primary sources and 1.5 million images including scanned images of 19th century texts in books and journal articles throughout the Antebellum Period to Reconstruction.
• Metropolitan Museum of Art — Open access art collections and exhibitions of over 5,000 years of art from around the world including impressionism, art deco, masks, musical instruments, animals, and architecture.
• National Jukebox — Contains open access historical sound recordings. Choose categories that include Instrumental, Instrumental with vocal refrain, spoken, and vocal from artists A to Z.
• Project MUSE — Open access academic books and journals in health, history, art history, humanities, literature, culture and diversity, education, music, math, philosophy, sciences, and technology.