Electronic Resources Gateway

Type: Reference

Type: Indexes & Articles

Description: Index to dissertations in progress and a bibliography of completed dissertations reported since mid-1995.

Type: Indexes & Articles

Description: The former Music-in-Print series in a completely searchable online database of published music in print; includes current versions of Choral Music In Print; Classical Guitar Music in Print; Classical Vocal Music in Print; Orchestral Music in Print; Sacred Choral music in Print; Secular Choral Music in Print; String Music in Print; and Woodwind Music in Print.

Type: Reference

Description: The National Library of Canada presents an online version of the 1992 second edition of "The Encyclopedia of Music in Canada." The encyclopedia is offered in English and French. The work includes bibliographies, lists, and discographies on Canadian musicians and music. A list of contributors' names and abbreviations used in the encyclopedia is available.

Type: Reference

Description: Contains full text of the printed edition, search capabilities, and links to thousands of related sites, including sound archives and illustrations; incorporates New Grove Dictionary of Opera. To be updated quarterly and annually.

Users: Licensed for 2-3 concurrent users.

Type: Indexes & Articles

* Click on "Enter databases", then select International Medieval Bibliography - online.

Coverage: 1967-

Description: Indexes articles, notes, and similar literature on medieval subjects in journals, Festschriften, conference proceedings, and collected essays. Covers all aspects of medieval studies within the date range of 400 to 1500 for the entire continent of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa for the period before the Muslim conquest and parts of those areas subsequently controlled by Christian powers. Includes more than 300,000 articles published 1967- , all of which are fully classified by date, subject and location.

Type: Reference

Description: The Labyrinth provides free, organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies through a World Wide Web server at Georgetown University. The Labyrinth's easy-to-use menus and links provide connections to databases, services, texts, and images on other servers around the world. This project not only provides an organizational structure for electronic resources in medieval studies, but also serves as a model for similar, collaborative projects in other fields of study. The Labyrinth project is open-ended and is designed to grow and change with new developments in technology and in medieval studies.

Type: Reference

* Click on "Enter databases", then select Lexikon des Mittelalters Online.

Type: Data/Statistics/GIS

Coverage: v.1 CD-ROM

Mode of access: CD-ROM in Medieval Institute Reference (Rm. 715)

Description: Each CD-ROM contains two complementary databases: a textual database and an image bank. The textual database consists of all the descriptive notes of the manuscripts. The image bank comprises the reproductions of all illustrations. In addition, there is a series of background articles relating to the history of the Burgundy Library, important persons, or stylistic trends.

Type: Reference

Coverage: 1960-

Description: Contains catalog records from the Library of Congress for musical scores; books, periodicals, and audiovisual materials about music; sound recordings (LPs, CDs, tapes, 78's, etc.) and non-music recordings.

Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.

Type: Indexes & Articles

Coverage: 1979-

Description: Provides citations to music periodical literature, compiled from over 600 international music periodicals offering historiographic, ethnographic, and musicological data.

Type: eBooks & eTexts

Description: A collection of electronic books available for reading and searching via the Internet. Book titles include both those academic titles specifically acquired by Notre Dame and a public domain collection of thousands of works including Project Gutenberg titles.

Users: One concurrent user per title. Preview mode allows access for 15 minutes. Check-out mode allows access for 2 hours at a time.

* NetLibrary user guide
* ND titles

Type: Indexes & Articles

Coverage: 1 computer file

Description: "This CD-ROM is a reference source indexing, at item-level, the full contents of the following Primary Source Microfilm music manuscript collections: Music manuscripts from the great English collections ; Italian music manuscripts from the British Library, London ; Twentieth century composers : Tippett, Bliss and Finzi" --manual.

User Guides: Accompanied by user's manual, shelved in Music Seminar Room.

Type: Indexes & Articles

Coverage: 1969-

Description: Over 200,000 citations on international music corresponding to the printed RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, produced by the Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale.

Users: Licensed for 5 simultaneous users.

Type: Indexes & Articles

Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.

Type: Indexes & Articles

Description: "RISM is an international, non-profit joint venture which aims to comprehensively document the world's musical sources of manuscripts of printed music, works on music theory and libretti stored in libraries, archives, monasteries, schools and private collections"--NISC product fact sheet.

Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.

Type: Reference

Description: Texts on Italian music theory and aesthetics designed to extend Thesaurus musicarum Latinarum, including scanned images of all musical examples, Table of codes and noteshapes for mensural notation, and Principles of orthography for the TML.