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  • Bibliography of Sources Related to Women's Studies, Gender Studies, Feminism, and Music     [Full Record]
    Bibliography of materials developed by the Committee on the Status of Women of the Society for Music Theory. All aspects of women and music are included.

  • Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads     [Full Record]
    Searchable digital library of Broadside Ballads from the 16th- to the 20th-Century.

  • British Library Manuscripts Catalogue     [Full Record]
    A single portal for access to the mainstream catalogues of the British Library Department of Manuscripts, covering materials acquired from 1753 to the present day.

  • Contemporary Women's Issues     [Full Record]
    Full text of material published since 1992 on women's issues and related topics. Includes journal articles, newsletters, and research reports from government and international agencies, and fact sheets. Subscription only - contact your library.

  • Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts, Bodleian Library     [Full Record]
    Web site of the Bodelian Library's Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts. Collections include western manuscripts, rare books and printed ephemera, maps and music manuscripts.

  • Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology Online     [Full Record]
    Includes citations for completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in the fields of musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology, as well as in related musical, scientific, and humanistic disciplines.

  • Early Modern Literary Studies -- WWW-Accessible Resources     [Full Record]
    Links to 16th and 17th century resource materials on the Web including author Web sites, digital projects, electronic journals, and more.

  • Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal     [Full Record]
    Journal devoted solely to the interdisciplinary and global study of women and gender during the years 1400 to 1700. Subscription only - contact your library.

  • Early Music Guild (EMG)     [Full Record]
    Presents and promotes early music in Seattle, Washington, and throughout the Puget Sound region.

  • Early Music Network     [Full Record]
    Web site providing information and services about early music and historical performance all over the world.

  • Eighteenth-Century Resources / Jack Lynch     [Full Record]
    Links to resources on all aspects of the long 18th century including author Web sites, primary texts, electronic journals, bibliographies, and more.

  • Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)     [Full Record]
    A digital archive, which when completed will comprise most works published in the United Kingdom and the Americas between 1701 and 1800. Subscription only - contact your library.

  • English Ballad Archive, 1500-1800     [Full Record]
    Searchable, online archive of ballads from the Samuel Pepys collection held by Cambridge University. Includes facsimile images of the ballads along with transcriptions and backgropund essays.

  • English Folk Dance and Song Society (efdss)     [Full Record]
    The English Folk Dance and Song Society serves to preserve and promote traditional English folk dance, song and music by providing national and local outreach services which enable and increase access to all.

  • English Short Title Catalog     [Full Record]
    Catalog of most imprints (books, pamphlets, and broadsides) published from 1473 to 1800 in English or published in any language in English-speaking countries. Many titles are available on microform.

  • Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index / Margaret Shaus, ed.     [Full Record]
    Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages published from 1990 to the present.

  • Genders     [Full Record]
    Publishes articles that "consider genders and sexualities in relation to artistic, semiotic, political, literary, social, ethnic, racial, economic, rhetorical or legal concerns."

  • GenderWatch     [Full Record]
    Full text database comprised primarily of periodicals that deal with gender issues, including academic and scholarly journals, regional publications, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, etc. Indexes materials published since 1970. Subscription only - contact your library.

  • Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments     [Full Record]
    Provides information, pictures, additional references to instruments of the 12th-17th centuries.

  • Intute: Arts & Humanities     [Full Record]
    Arts and humanities Web gateway. Subdivided by discipline. Links to author Web sites, texts and projects, teaching resources, electronic journals, and other related material.

  • Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance     [Full Record]
    Bibliography lists books, journal material, dissertation abstracts, and essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues) for materials pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Also features an International Directory of Scholars (IDS) and online editions of several journals. Subscription only - contact your library.

  • Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music     [Full Record]
    The Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music (JSCM) is published by the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music to provide a refereed forum for scholarly studies of the musical cultures of the seventeenth century. These include historical and archival studies, performance practice, music theory, aesthetics, dance and theater. The JSCM also publishes critical reviews and summary listings of recently published books, scores, recordings, and electronic media.

  • JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive     [Full Record]
    Electronic archive of core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Includes complete runs of journals with full-text of all articles published prior to the most current five years. Subscription only - contact your library.

  • Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies     [Full Record]
    Links to databases, texts, bibliographies, teaching resources, and other materials related to medieval studies. Searchable by category and by material type.

  • Lexicons of Early Modern English / Ian Lancashire, ed.     [Full Record]
    Historical database of monolingual, bilingual, and polyglot dictionaries, lexical encyclopedias, hard-word glossaries, spelling lists, and lexically-valuable treatises surviving in print or manuscript from the Tudor, Stuart, Caroline, Commonwealth, and Restoration periods. Public and subscription versions are available--the public version allows simple searches on the multilingual lexical database --which includes major bilingual English and French-Italian-Latin-Spanish dictionaries--but lacks advanced retrieval options. LEME replaces the Early Modern English Dictionaries Database (EMEDD).

  • Libweb: Library Servers via WWW / Thomas Dowling, ed.     [Full Record]
    Links to library Web page and online catalogs worldwide. Search by keyword or browse by location or library type.

  • Medieval Music     [Full Record]
    Part of Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies. Links to medieval music sources including: databases, instruments, societies, and other sites.

  • Medieval Review     [Full Record]
    Reviews of current works in all areas of Medieval Studies.

  • Music Index Online     [Full Record]
    Indexes international music periodicals published since 1979. Includes citations for articles, dissertations, obituaries, and reviews. Covers nearly all genres of music, music equipment and technology, musical instruments, the music business, and more. Subscription only - contact your library.

  • National Portrait Gallery (Washington, DC)     [Full Record]
    Images of portraits in the museum's permanent collection and access to records in the Catalog of American Portraits.

  • National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections     [Full Record]
    A free cooperative cataloging program operated by the Library of Congress for manuscript collections. Allows users to search both the RLG Union Catalog and the OCLC Catalog for manuscript materials.

  • netLibrary     [Full Record]
    Complete electronic texts of scholarly monographs and editions, as well as reference works, literature and fiction. Also includes a number of publicly accessible electronic texts (no subscription required). Subscription only - contact your library.

  • NetSERF: The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources / Andrea R. Harbin, ed.     [Full Record]
    Links to texts, primary source documents, reference sources, biographies, scholarly and teaching resources and other materials in medieval studies. Major resources cover the subjects of Archaeology, Architecture, Art, Civilizations, Culture, Drama, History, Law, Literature, Music, People, Philosophy, and Religion.

  • Online Books Page / John Mark Ockerbloom, ed.     [Full Record]
    Links to electronic texts and text collections in all subject areas.

  • ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies     [Full Record]
    Gateway for Medieval Studies on the World Wide Web. The ORB Text Library links to online transcriptions and translations of primary source texts. The ORB Index is a topically arranged list of resource guides. Also includes a list of resources for the non-specialist, and resources for teaching.

  • Oxford Music Online     [Full Record]
    Includes the full text and online updates of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2001)and the New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992). Subscription only - contact your library.

  • Periodicals Index Online     [Full Record]
    Indexes articles in arts, humanities and social sciences periodicals published since the 19th century in 37 key subject areas. Includes a full text archive and direct linking to JSTOR. Subscription only - contact your library.

  • Project Muse: Scholarly Journals Online     [Full Record]
    Full text of recent issues of journals from Johns Hopkins University Press and other scholarly publishers. Covers the fields of literary studies, history, the visual & performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many other arts and humanities and social science disciplines. Subscription only - contact your library.

  • Renaissance Dance / Andrew Draskóy     [Full Record]
    Information on European dance from the 15th to early 17th century. Includes bibliography of primary and secondary resources, discography, dance treatises, other renaissance dance links, early music and linguistic resources.

  • Repositories of Primary Sources     [Full Record]
    A listing of over 5,000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar.

  • RILM Abstracts of Music Literature     [Full Record]
    An international bibliography of scholarly writings on music and related disciplines published since 1967. Includes articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, conference proceedings, dissertations, reviews and more. Subscription only - contact your library.

  • RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals     [Full Record]
    Provides citations to articles in more than 65 nineteenth and early twentieth-century music journals from Europe, Russia, and the United States. Subscription only - contact your library.

  • Smithsonian Institution Research Information System : Smithsonian Archives, Manuscripts and Photographs Catalog     [Full Record]
    Descriptions of personal papers, manuscripts, photographs, oral histories, sound recordings, films, and organizational records from ten Smithsonian repositories. Many scanned images are available in the "Image Gallery."

  • Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum / Thomas J. Mathiesen and Peter Slemon, eds.     [Full Record]
    Database covering the corpus of Medieval and Renaissance Latin music theory enables users to locate and retrieve texts.

  • Traditional Ballad Index: An Annotated Bibliography of the Folk Songs of the English-Speaking World     [Full Record]
    Searchable database of information about English language folk ballads. Offers a variety of information about each song, including a brief description, a bibliography, and historical background.

  • UK National Register of Archives     [Full Record]
    The indexes of the NRA offer a means of searching the catalogues and lists held within the NRA. This material provides information on the nature and location of manuscripts and historical records relating to British history. Search by corporate name, personal name, family name, or place name.

  • Voice of the Shuttle / Alan Liu, ed.     [Full Record]
    Major Web directory of sites devoted to the Humanities. Subdivided by discipline. Links to author websites, texts and projects, teaching resources, electronic journals, listservs and information on scholarly conferences and other related material.

  • Women's Studies International     [Full Record]
    Compiled from ten women's studies indexes and bibliographies. Primarily an index of the feminist press--including periodical sources, books, book chapters, nonprint materials, proceedings, reports, theses, websites, web documents and grey literature--from 1972 to the present. Subscription only - contact your library.

  • WorldCat     [Full Record]
    Combined catalog of books, serial publications, media, visual materials, musical scores, archival and other materials in libraries worldwide. Subscription only - contact your library.


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