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Streamed audio of African American music which includes jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives. (Alexander Street Press)
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Indexes articles from over 1200 journals. Includes and is searchable by references cited in each article. Maximum number of
simultaneous users: 13 (split between Arts & Humanities Citation Index,
Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Journal Citation
Reports). (ISI's Web of Science)

Comprehensive database of bibliographic records for over 5 million book, audio book, and video titles. Also includes publishers catalogs, lists of 400 awards from 10 countries, and selected reviews. (Bowker)
Streamed audio of classical music, with a particular focus on
contemporary music and women composers. (Alexander Street Press)

Database of Recorded American Music
Streamed audio of recordings by American composers and artists including CD quality audio, liner notes and essays from New World Composers, Inc., and other important labels. (Recorded Anthology of American Music, Inc.) 
Dissertations
Indexing and abstracts for over 3200 publications with full-text for over half of the publications. (EBSCOhost)
Essay and General Literature Index
Focusing on humanities and social sciences literature this databases cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and other works published in the United States, Great Britain and Canada. (H.W. Wilson)

Catalog of scores and recordings of compositions submitted
to the Grawemeyer Composition Award Competition.
The premier music encyclopedia covering all aspects of music knowledge
in over 29,000 articles. Includes full-text searching.

International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP)
Draws from more than 375 international music periodicals from over 20 countries, and also indexes feature music articles and obituaries appearing in The New York Times and The Washington Post. Includes some full-text articles. (Chadwyck-Healey)
International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA)
Indexes more than 200 international performing arts periodicals plus performing arts related items from The New York Times and The Washington Post. Includes some full-text articles. (Chadwyck-Healey)
Iter-Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Index to interdisciplinary literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Includes articles, bibliographies, books, catalogues, editions, abstracts, and discographies.
Catalog of items owned by the seven University
of Louisville Libraries.
New Grove...
New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and New Grove Dictionary of Opera are available in Grove Music Online.
ProQuest Digital Dissertations
Formerly known as Dissertations Abstracts International. Contains 1.6 million citations for dissertations and theses from over 1,000 graduate schools. Provides indexing back to 1861 and full-text availability to titles back to 1997 (full-text availability varies by author's institution). Free full-text downloads can be sent to an email account.

Includes a cross-section of general periodicals, ABI/INFORM business periodicals, and several national newspapers in full-text. (ProQuest)

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
RISM Online (Repertoire International des Sources Musicales/International Inventory of Musical Sources) A catalog of sources of music and writings about music from the earliest times through ca. 1850. 
Streaming audio of world, American folk, blues, jazz, American
Indian, old time country, and children's music; also includes spoken
word and sounds. (Alexander Street Press)

