The RADAR Framework can help you remember what kinds of questions you should be asking about an information source as you evaluate it for quality and usefulness in your research.
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Offers links to information about any genre or style of music, and much more.
Online school and resource center serving the needs of professional musicians.
CMC is an international organization dedicated to the advancement of new music and the success of the independent musician.
This About.com site is entirely devoted to music education. Covered topics include instruments, music theory, and music history. The site also offers free lesson plans, games, sheet music, and other resources for music teachers and students.
Wikiversity’s School of Music and Dance is a good resource for self-learners who need instruction, ear training, and learning materials.
This teacher-created site is an excellent resource for music information. In addition to free downloads, sheet music, and lesson plans for teachers, Music Ed Magic offers education articles, news, and a special music education search engine.
Founded in 1984, the Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities is engaged in the development of large databases of musical and textual materials for applications in research, teaching, and performance.
The College Music Society promotes music teaching and learning, musical creativity and expression, research and dialogue, and diversity and interdisciplinary interaction.
The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads. The Free Music Archive is directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America.
The International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) is an international organization established to promote inquiry, scholarship and analysis in the area of popular music.
Physics and music have been related for millenia. The art and science of music acoustics are presented here, in musician-friendly format, as is our research in music science.
MLA provides a professional forum for librarians, archivists, and others who support and preserve the world’s musical heritage.
Wide-ranging guide to online resources in musicology and other subjects, incluuding music therapy, world music, record labels, and library directories.
Thirty-two collections from the Library of Congress, including nineteenth-century song sheets, folk music from 1930s California, The Aaron Copeland Collection, and more.
Free choral/vocal scores, texts, translations, and other useful information.
Browse selections from The Morgan's extensive collection of manuscripts and printed music from composers such as: Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler, and Richard Strauss.
Classical sheet music for free download under Creative Commons licenses.
Over 146,000 musical scores in the public domain. Exceptions may apply (the site attempts to comply with Canadian copyright law). Browse by composer, nationality, genre, instrumentation, time period, and more.
Browse collections at member institutions, including: Duke University, Indiana University, and UCLA.
Over 10,000 sound recordings made between 1901 and 1925. Browse by instrument (or spoken voice), place, date, language, composer, performer, genre, and more. Genres include: classical music, popular music, ragtime, blues, opera, and speeches, as well as whistling and yodeling. There just might be something for everyone!
Once every two weeks, Alexander Street Press allows you to download a piece of classical music for free!
Since 2003, the Florida Electronic Library has provided over 190 million articles, e-books, videos and other electronic resources to the citizens of Florida. Click on All Resources for a list of databases, reference books, and links to other valuable resources.
The Volusia County Public Library's Digital Library offers a wide selection of online books, audio books, and streaming video along with research databases and online courses. Access is free with a VCPL Library Card and PIN. DSC students who live in Flagler County can obtain a VCPL Library Card with a DSC College ID and other required identification.
The DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) was launched in 2003 at Lund University, Sweden, with 300 open access journals. Today, the independent database contains ca. 12000 open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities.
The Open Research Library (ORL) is planned to include all Open Access book content worldwide on one platform for user-friendly discovery, offering a seamless experience navigating more than 20,000 Open Access books. This vital infrastructure is slated to comprise the most comprehensive collection of peer-reviewed Open Access books accessible for everyone.
This is a special service of Google that indexes both case law and academic research articles. Many of these articles have links to the online full text. You can also link Google Scholar to the Daytona State College Library Databases. For details on how to do this, contact a DSC Librarian.
govinfo is a service of GPO to provide free public access to the full text of official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government. When you search the content available on govinfo, you will be able to download the full text of publications but you won’t see records for documents that are not stored on govinfo.
PLOS ONE is an inclusive journal community working together to advance science for the benefit of society, now and in the future. Founded with the aim of accelerating the pace of scientific advancement and demonstrating its value, we believe all rigorous science needs to be published and discoverable, widely disseminated and freely accessible to all.
BMC has an evolving portfolio of some 300 peer-reviewed journals, sharing discoveries from research communities in science, technology, engineering and medicine. In 1999 we made high quality research open to everyone who needed to access it – and in making the open access model sustainable, we changed the world of academic publishing.