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Oxford Music Online full text
Full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. NOTE: allows access to one Simon's Rock user at a time; if you can't log in, try waiting a little while. More database info.
A full-text database. Off-campus access with I.D. number. More access info.

General Databases

Academic Search Premier full text
Provides full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. More database info.
A (largely) full-text database. Off-campus access with I.D. number. More access info.

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online full text
The full-text online version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
A full-text database. Off-campus access with I.D. number. More access info.

Essay and General Literature Index
A citation index to essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. Focuses on the humanities and social sciences.
Via Bard. Password required for all access. More access info.

Expanded Academic ASAP full text
Meets research needs across all academic disciplines, from arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology.
A full-text database. Off-campus access with I.D. number. More access info.

Lexis-Nexis Universe full text
Provides full-text documents from over 5,900 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications with a variety of flexible search options. More database info.
A full-text database. Off-campus access with I.D. number. More access info.

Project Gutenberg full text
An organization dedicated to publishing free books online. Most of the material is from before 1923 (due to copyright considerations). "So you won't find the latest bestsellers or modern computer books here. You will find the classic books from the start of this century [i.e., the Twentieth] and previous centuries." Over 17,000 books are available, all digitized by volunteers. More database info.
A full-text database. Open access from anywhere.

WorldCat
OCLC catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide. More database info.
Off-campus access with I.D. number. More access info.

Journal Collections

Academic OneFile full text
Academic OneFile is a collection of more than 8,000 journals with full manual indexing, a robust backfile and coverage of a variety of academic disciplines -- from science, technology and medicine to the humanities, and includes full-text of major newspapers. Content is provided in both HTML and PDF formats. More database info.
A full-text database. Off-campus access with I.D. number. More access info.

JSTOR full text
A collection of full-text scholarly journals. More database info.
A full-text database. Off-campus access with I.D. number. More access info.

Project Muse full text
Provides access to the full text of more than 200 scholarly journals in arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics.
A full-text database. Off-campus access with I.D. number. More access info.

How to Find a Specific Journal

Simon’s Rock Full Text Journals
A searchable database of all the journals, magazines, and newspapers available to the Simon's Rock Community, both in print and online.
Works best from on-campus. More access info.

Music Websites

African American Sheet Music, 1820-1920
The sheet music in this digital collection has been selected from the Sheet Music Collection at the John Hay Library at Brown University. The collection illuminates many aspects of American culture and society from the 1850s to the 1920s, including theatre, music, and dance, publishing history, music printing and illustration, as well as a variety of social concerns and events from abolitionism and the Civil War, the problems of Reconstruction, urbanization, the African-American soldier in three wars, and the social position of and attitudes toward African Americans throughout a critical period in history. More info.
Open access from anywhere.

Canadian Music Periodical Index
An index of articles from Canadian music periodicals. CMPI is a free service provided by the National Library of Canada. Provides citations only (no full-text).
Open access from anywhere.

Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music
Part of Special Collections at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of Johns Hopkins University. It contains over 29,000 pieces of music and focuses on popular American music spanning the period 1780 to 1960.
Open access from anywhere.

Music Library Association Obituary List
An on-line version of an index of obituary citations published annually by the Music Library Association (MLA) in its quarterly journal, Notes. The index facilitates access to information about musicians and other members of the music world.
Open access from anywhere.

Music Resources
A list of links from Yale University Music Library.
Open access from anywhere.

Women Composers & Women’s Music
A list of links from the William and Gayle Cook Music Library of Indiana University.
Open access from anywhere.

WWW Sites of Interest to Musicologists
A list of links from the American Musicological Association.
Open access from anywhere.

General Websites

Google Scholar full text
The ever-ambitious Google’s attempt to index “scholarly” information on the web. Not exhaustive or entirely reliable (the project is still in development), but worth a try if you’ve drawn a blank everywhere else. Note that many of the articles indexed require payment for viewing (though you can usually obtain the article citation for free). More database info.
Limited full-text. Open access from anywhere.