We have databases that are collections of academic resources organised by subject. These are great for more detailed searches for your research. You can access these via the Find databases A-Z link in LibrarySearch. The following are databases which relate to Music:

Archival Sound Recordings: Hosted by the British Library, Archive Sound Recordings is an extensive collection of unique sound recordings, which come from all over the world and cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature.

Cecilia : an online guide to music collections in archives, libraries and museums in the UK and Ireland

Concert Programmes Database: A database of collections of concert programmes held in European libraries, archives and museums:
a resource for the history of musical life from the eighteenth century to the present day

Digital Resources for Musicology: provides links to substantial open-access projects of use to musicians and musicologists.

Early Music Online: Links through the British Library to the Royal Holloway Digital Repository of Early Music. You can search their repository using key words, be beware that a lot of their material is in a foreign language.

Golden Pages for Musicologists: announcements for forthcoming conferences in musicology and related disciplines, an archive of dissertation abstracts, links to music departments worldwide, and other links of interest to musicologists.

Oxford Music Online/ Grove Music Online: Provides Web access to the entire text of the 29 volume New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians [second edition] and offers sophisticated search capabilities and an ever increasing network of web-links to musical sites around the world. It also includes the full text of the Oxford Companion to Music, the Oxford Dictionary of Music and the Encyclopaedia of Popular Music. See the Grove Music Online guide.

International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance International: IBTD with Full Text covers theatre, drama, acting training, ballet, modern dance, choreographers, music, opera, popular music, film and visual arts. A significant number of dance journals are available in full text via IBTD. See the IBTD guide.

JSTOR: A full-text archive of core scholarly journals, dating from the first issue up until two to five years ago. Subject coverage includes Art and Art History, Music, Performing Arts, Film Studies, Communication Studies, and other many other topics. Includes titles such as Journal of Music Theory, Music Analysis, Music Theory Spectrum, , Perspectives of New Music, Tempo and Theory and Practice.

MusRef – A guide to over 11,000 print and internet music reference resources.

Oxford Scholarship Online Music Collection: OSO Music Collection provides full text access to over 200 Music e-books published by Oxford University Press. See the Oxford Scholarship Online guide.

RILM (Abstracts of Music Literature): An index that covers a wide variety of musical fields, including classical, popular, world music, voice and instruments, performance, theory, pedagogy, therapy and liturgy. Abstracts (summaries) are provided with each reference and all publication types are included. See the RILM guide.

Rock’s Backpages: An online library of pop music journalism. Over 34000 classic articles crossing a number of genres by the finest music writers of the past 50 years.

Library Guide - Music