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Cambridge Companions are a series of authoritative guides, written by leading experts, offering lively, accessible introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics, and periods.

Grove Music Online is the authoritative resource for music research with over 52,000 articles written by nearly 9,000 scholars charting the diverse history, theory and cultures of music around the globe. Based on a work first published in 1879 and updated frequently, Grove has been in continuous publication for over a century and now publishes hundreds of new articles and article revisions each year

Medici.tv offers over 1,200 films of classical music concerts, documentaries etc.

Listen online to over 85,000 CDs (from Naxos & a selection of other record labels) of mainly classical music, but including other genres such as Blues and Jazz.

Nkoda is a digital subscription sheet music app. The Nkoda Library gives digital access to musical scores from100k plus publisher editions.

For information on how to sign in to nkoda, please click here

Oxford Bibliographies are authoritative research guides which combine the features of an annotated bibliography and an encyclopedia. A good introduction to researching a particular topic.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (1967-present) indexes thousands of journals, books, dissertations, conference proceedings etc, covering classical, pop, folk, jazz and ethnomusicology.

An online archive of popular music newspapers and magazines, going back to the 1960s.

Subculture archives is educational & cultural research resource of primary sources exploring 100 years of youth culture through the scenes, styles, and sounds that forged them. From Rave, Punk, Rockabilly to Grime.
Subculture archives is formed from the collectons of the Museum of Youth Culture - an emerging museum dedicated to the styles, sounds and social movements innovated by young people over the last 100 years. Championing the impact of youth on modern society, the Museum of Youth Culture is a non-profit Heritage Lottery & Arts Council Funded collection incorporating photographs, ephemera, objects and oral histories celebrating our shared youth culture history. From the bomb-site Bicycle racers in post-war 1940s London, to the Acid House ravers of 1980s Northern England, the Museum of Youth Culture empowers the extraordinary everyday stories of growing up in Britain.

Previously called the Web of Knowledge. Provides access to a number of databases including Web of Science Core Collection (covering engineering, science, health, social science, humanities, etc.), BIOSIS (biological & biomedical science) and Inspec (physics, computing, electrical & electronic engineering, etc.). Select 'All Databases’ to search multiple databases simultaneously or choose an individual database.