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Format: Full Text Available: On & Off Campus Full-text articles from more than 6,000 leading journals and reference sources, including many peer-reviewed journals. Also includes thousands of podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN, and CBC as well as links to hundreds of medical videos from OR-Live. Help - Video Tutorial | Help - Search Tips (PDF)
Format: Full Text Available: On & Off Campus Searchable database of articles and papers from the Audio Engineering Society from 1953 to present. Includes full-text articles from the peer reviewed Journal of the Audio Engineering Society as well as the society's convention and conference papers.
Format: Citation/Abstract Available: On & Off Campus This combination of two well-known databases, South African Studies and African Studies, includes nearly two million records from Africa, Europe, and the U.S. indexing articles, books, newspapers, government documents, radio and TV broadcasts, pamphlets, maps, theses, and music recordings. Topics covered include politics, history, economics, business, mining, natural sciences, environment, development, social issues, anthropology, literature, language, law, music, tourism, and much more. Limited to 1 concurrent user. Help - Video Tutorial | Help - PowerPoint | Help - Website
Format: Full Text Available: On & Off Campus American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America. Help - Web Page
Format: Online Video Available: On & Off Campus Annenberg Media videos are intended for use by teachers, but many are ideal for use in the classroom or for viewing at home. Videos with a VoD icon are available for streaming (click on the program title to see if it has the icon).
Format: Full Text Available: On & Off Campus The non-fiction published works of over 400 leading African Americans. Monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to 1975.The collection is intended for research in black studies, political science, American history, music, literature and art. Help - Web Page
Format: Online Video Available: On & Off Campus When complete, Classical Music in Video will contain 1,000 hours of classical music performances and masterclasses captured on video -- approximately 1,500 performances in all. The collection will contain performances of all forms of classical music, including major orchestral performances by leading orchestras, plus chamber music, oratorio, and solo performances, along with masterclasses and interviews with master teachers from around the world. Help - Website Added January 2013
Format: Music Available: On & Off Campus Recordings from the world's greatest labels including Hyperion, Bridge Records, Sanctuary Classics, Artemis-Vanguard, Hänssler Classic, and Vox. Coverage includes music written from the earliest times (e.g., Gregorian Chant) to the present, including many contemporary composers. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera. More than 7,400 albums with 135,000 tracks are included and it is added to regularly. Help - Website
Format: Full Text Available: On & Off Campus Deep Blue is the University of Michigan's permanent, safe, and accessible service for representing our rich intellectual environment. The primary goal of Deep Blue is to provide access to the work that makes Michigan a leader in research, teaching, and creativity. By representing our scholars, from faculty through students, as individuals and as members of communities, Deep Blue provides a framework for preserving and finding the best scholarly and artistic work done at the University. Help - Website E-mail Alerts
Format: Full Text Available: On & Off Campus Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. More than 6,250 journals are included in the directory with nearly 3,000 journals searchable at article level. DOAJ aims to cover all subjects and languages.
Format: Citation/Abstract Available: On & Off Campus OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of more than 1,800 academic open access repositories. As well as providing a simple repository list, OpenDOAR lets you search for repositories or search repository contents. The current directory lists repositories and allows breakdown and selection by a variety of criteria (e.g., subject area, content type, and country).
Format: Full Text Available: On & Off Campus ebrary Academic Complete is a collection of nearly 45,000 e-books in a broad range of subjects. Titles are available from more than 150 publishers, including Brill, Cambridge, Elsevier, John Wiley & Sons, Johns Hopkins University Press, MIT, Taylor & Francis, Palgrave-MacMillan, and more. The ebrary QuickView Reader works in a browser, so no software installation or download is required. Features include the ability to add titles to a personal bookshelf, highlight text, take notes, and integrate with RefWorks and EndNote. Help - Web Page
Format: Full Text Available: On & Off Campus 30,000 entries that cover all genres and periods of popular music from 1900 to the present. Includes jazz, country, folk, rap, reggae, techno, musicals, and world music. The Fourth Edition includes thousands of new entries on trends, styles, record labels, venues, and music festivals. Key dates, biographies, and further reading for artists covered, along with complete discographies. Help - Website
Format: Full Text Available: On & Off Campus Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive is a research resource containing primary sources for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the vaudeville and silent movies era through to 2000. The database includes film and entertainment industry trade magazines, fan magazines, and music press titles. Help - User Guide (PDF) | Help - Website Added July 2012
Format: Citation/Abstract Available: On & Off Campus Cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and other works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. More than 300 volumes and 20 annual or serial publications indexed annually. Includes full bibliographic information for the titles in which the collected works are found. Coverage from 1985 to present; updated annually. Help - Video Tutorial | Help - PowerPoint Tutorial
Format: Online Video Available: On & Off Campus Award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum — race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. It presents points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions world-wide. Help - Website
Format: Online Video Available: On & Off Campus Folkstreams is an online national preserve of hard-to-find documentary films about American folk or roots cultures. The films were produced by independent filmmakers in an age that began in the 1960s and was made possible by the development of portable cameras and the capacity for synch sound. These films focus on the culture, struggles, and arts of unnoticed Americans from many different regions and communities.
Format: Full Text Available: On & Off Campus Search for full-text articles on topics related to music, art, fashion, film studies, etc. Sources include Arts and Humanities Through the Eras, History of the American Cinema, Contemporary Fashion, and others. Help - Video Tutorial | Help - Search Tips (PDF)
Format: Full Text Available: On & Off Campus The first comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. More than 700 expert contributors from all over the world. Includes audio files. Help - Web Page
Format: Some Full Text Available: On & Off Campus A Google search of scholarly sources, including articles, books, and papers. Also includes links to who cited articles. Use this link and you'll see UM-Dearborn availability for items and full text when available. Help - Web Page
Format: Some Full Text Available: On & Off Campus Indexes about 600 periodicals from as far back as 1984. Covers feature articles; interviews; obituaries; bibliographies; original works of fiction, drama, and poetry; book reviews, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, radio and television programs; and more. Help - Video Tutorial | Help - PowerPoint Tutorial
Format: Full Text Available: On & Off Campus The International Encyclopedia of Communication covers the breadth of communication studies, including coverage of theories, media and communication phenomena, research methods, problems, concepts, and geographical areas. It also covers such interdisciplinary areas as communication theory and philosophy, interpersonal communication, journalism, intercultural and intergroup communication, media effects, strategic communication/PR, communication and media law and policy, media systems in the world, and communication and technology. Help - Web Page
Format: Some Full Text Available: On & Off Campus Indexes several hundred international music periodicals from over 20 countries, plus full text for more than 140 of them. Some complete journal runs are included, with indexing back to 1874. Covers the full spectrum of subjects and all aspects of music, including music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theatre, theory, popular music forms, and composition. Help - User Guide (PDF) | Help - Website
Format: Citation/Abstract Available: On & Off Campus Primarily includes citations for over 40,000 books and essays and articles from over 400 scholarly journals in all areas of Medieval and Renaissance studies (400 - 1700). Also includes full-text access to a few journals and several books. Included databases are: • Baptisteria Sacra: An Iconographic Index of Baptismal Fonts • Bibliography of English Women Writers (1500-1640) • Iter Bibliography • Iter italicum • Medici Archive Project • Milton: A Bibliography (1624-1799)
Format: Full Text Available: On & Off Campus Journal articles from core scholarly journals in the liberal arts and sciences. Coverage extends from the first issue of journals included to 3 - 5 years before the present. Our JSTOR collections are: • Arts & Sciences I - Includes core journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. Also contains titles in ecology, mathematics, and statistics. • Arts & Sciences II - This collection adds more titles to economics, history, and Asian studies. Includes core journals in archaeology, classics, and African, Latin American, Middle Eastern, and Slavic studies. • Arts & Sciences III - Includes journals in languages and literature, as well as essential titles in the fields of music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, and the history and study of art and architecture. • Ecology & Botany - Includes the Ecological Society of America's premier research journals along with titles broadly focused on ecosystems. • Health & General Sciences - Features important historical scientific journals and top publications in the health sciences. Includes published scientific research dating as far back as 1665. Also available: All articles in any JSTOR collection published in the United States before 1923 and published anywhere else before 1870. This is about 500,000 articles from 200 journals. Help - Web Page | Help - Video Tutorials
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Format: Online Video Available: On & Off Campus Moving Image Archive at the Internet Archive includes thousands of movies, films, and videos from such topics as animation, technology, full-length feature films and classic shorts, open source movies, sports videos, and video game videos. Many videos are available for free download.
Format: Online Video Available: On & Off Campus Nearly 300 videos and video clips from National Geographic about the environment, music, science, travel, and culture.
Format: Music Available: On & Off Campus More than 358,000 classical, jazz, blues, and world music tracks available for online listening. New releases are added monthly. After connecting, see User Guide for minimum system requirements for listening. Note: Maximum of five simultaneous users. If you can't log in, please check back in a few minutes. Naxos only supports FlashPlayer, not Microsoft Silverlight nor Windows Media Player. Help - Web Page
Format: Online Video Available: On & Off Campus Naxos Video Library is a performing arts video library with over 1,375 operas, ballets, documentaries, live concerts, films, and musical tours of historic places. It includes the Naxos DVD label, Opus Arte, Arthaus, Dacapo, EuroArts, and other labels and is continuously updated to offer the best selection of performing arts videos. Help - User Guide | Help - FAQs Added January 2013
Format: Full Text Available: On & Off Campus Full text articles on a variety of topics, from general and scholarly periodicals, covering 1994 - present. Help - Video Tutorial | Help - PowerPoint Tutorial | Help - PDF Tutorial
Format: Full Text Available: On & Off Campus Complete access to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed. This standard music reference is now updated regularly online. Help - PowerPoint Guides | Help - Web Page
Format: Some Full Text Available: On & Off Campus An index to over 14 million articles in more than 4,250 humanities and social science journals from their first issues through 1995. Includes full text of articles for 650 of the journals covered. Covers many older journals not indexed electronically anywhere else. Help - User Guide (PDF) | Help - Website
Format: Full Text Available: On & Off Campus Search all current ProQuest databases, including ProQuest Research Library for general and academic articles, ABI/INFORM for business and management, ProQuest Newspapers, Ethnic NewsWatch, GenderWatch, and ProQuest Historical Newspapers. Help - User Guide (PDF) | Help - Web Page
Format: Some Full Text Available: On & Off Campus Articles from scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers. The broad range of subjects covered includes arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests. Covers 1971 to present. Help - User Guide (PDF) | Help - Website
Format: Citation/Abstract Available: On & Off Campus Comprehensive international guide to writings about music. Includes bibliographic information covering articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, dissertations, Festschriften, iconographies, critical commentaries to complete works, ethnographic recordings, conference proceedings, electronic resources, reviews, and more. Help - User Guide (PDF) | Help - Website
Format: Full Text Available: On & Off Campus Provides dynamic information about architecture and design, culture, literature, multimedia, music, performing arts, philosophy and religion, and visual arts. Full-text articles are selected from more than 1,200 domestic and international publications. Many articles are accompanied by full-color images, including art reproductions, photographs, and illustrations. Help - Website
Format: Online Video Available: On & Off Campus Tavis Smiley is a PBS television show that covers news, issues, and entertainment, featuring interviews with artists, activists, news makers, politicians, and everyday people. Episodes are available back to 2004. Questions about Music research?
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