British and Irish Music Resources
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Research and Instruction Librarian for Music & Fine Arts
Purpose of Site
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To point students and researchers to scholarly online resources on classical music in the British Isles. Significant subscription resources will be noted, but the emphasis of this guide is on open-access sources.
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To connect scholars to open-access Digital Projects.
Please send suggestions, corrections, and comments to Karen Olson.
Getting Started
What's in the Research Guide
Libraries and Music Centres - Cooperative and Library catalogues, and Music Centres
Archives - Cooperative catalogues to British and Irish archive holdings, individual archive catalogues , and Digital Archive Collections
Composers - Composer Societies and Trusts, Online Thematic Catalogues, and composer-specific open- access Digital Projects
Conferences & Networking - Links to conferences, professional organizations, email lists, etc. devoted to British and Irish music
Digital Humanities Projects - Indexes to digital musicological projects, open-access resources, and non-composer specific open-access Digital Projects
Newspapers & Periodicals - Digital Newspaper Archives and Collections
Theses & Dissertations - Resources for locating theses and dissertations
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias (subscription)
Your institution may not have a subscription to these databases. Please check with your institution's librarians if you cannot access a resource.