Digital Reference

An essential, unique collection of jazz periodicals, of great importance to any lover of jazz and its history, and a primary source reference and research tool for all libraries.

A large-scale bibliographical project which was established to provide access to eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century periodical literature dealing with music. The RIPM database represents an effort to coordinate retrospective periodical indexing on an international scale and currently functions as a cumulative index to 185 volumes of periodicals of international significance from 15 countries and contains more than 467,500 annotated citations, more than 218,000 reviews, and more than 8,500 biographical citations.

The Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM) – International Inventory of Musical Sources – is an international, non-profit organization that aims to comprehensively document extant musical sources worldwide: manuscripts, printed music editions, writings on music theory, and libretti that are found in libraries, archives, churches, schools, and private collections. The RISM Catalog of Musical Sources contains over 1.3 million records and can be searched at no cost. RISM was founded in Paris in 1952 and is the largest and only global organization that documents written musical sources. RISM records what exists and where it can be found.

Rock’s Backpages is the largest archive of music journalism online, featuring almost 50,000 articles on thousands of artists from Aaliyah to ZZ Top.

TeachingBooks makes instantly available original, in-studio movies of authors and illustrators, audio excerpts of professional book readings, guides to thousands of titles and a wealth of multimedia resources on children’s and young adult literature.

The full text of all nine volumes of the Garland Encyclopedia, as well as streaming access to the accompanying CDs.

First published in 1902, the Times Literary Supplement (TLS) is the only literary weekly—in fact the only journal—to offer comprehensive coverage of the latest and most important publications, in every subject, in several languages as well as reviewing current, theatre, cinema, music and exhibitions. Every issue of this important publication can be found in digital form, cover-to-cover, in the Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive. It is an essential resource for anyone studying, or supporting the study of, modern literature and culture.

The UNESDOC Database is a bibliographical references of all UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) documents and publications. International specialized bibliographies in every area of education, museums, monuments and sites. Names, addresses and activities of 10,000 research, training and documentation institutions in the social sciences. Also includes the UNESCO and the International Bureau of Education thesauri. Many of the indexed items are available in the Government Documents area of the Strozier Library.

This innovative portal invites readers into the darkened halls, small backrooms, and traveling venues that hosted everything from spectacular shows and bawdy burlesque, to the world of magic and spiritualist seances. As well as fascinating primary source material in the form of objects, printed books, ephemera, posters, photographs, and playbills, the resource includes a number of tools to support teaching and research.