More than 50 thematic collections of primary sources spanning the 15th to the 21st centuries. The collections support research in history, literature, gender studies, race relations, popular culture, and many other areas of the humanities and social sciences.
New collections for 2023:
Colonial Caribbean, Module II
East India Company
Foreign Office Files for Southeast Asia, Section II
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An image library for the arts and sciences. A rich collection of more than one million high-resolution images and tools for teaching and research. Subjects include architecture, painting, photography, sculpture, decorative arts and design, as well as archeological and anthropological objects. Coverage: prehistory to present.
Full image reproductions of nearly 500 British magazines and journals. Topics covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, music, art, drama, archaeology, architecture, and the social sciences. Coverage: 1681-1920.
This is a list from Wikipedia of online digital musical document libraries. Each source listed below offers access to collections of digitized music documents (typically originating from printed or manuscript musical sources), and containing music notation of some kind, stored as an image file.
More than 11,000 maps scanned by the University of Texas Library. Most are in the public domain, but please credit "University of Texas Libraries" as the source of the scanned images.
Streaming video collection of more than 25,000 documentary videos and over 240,000 video segments, organized into 25 subject areas. Special features allow faculty and students to bookmark favorites, create and share playlists, embed videos and clips into Blackboard, create proper citations, and easily export citations to RefWorks. Captioning and searchable transcripts available for all titles.
A streaming video collection for colleges. Over 25,000 films from producers such as PBS, Media Education Foundation, Criterion Collection, First Run Features, HBO, Kino Lorber, and more.
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More than 550 full-length Met performances, including HD videos from the Met's award-winning Live in HD series of movie theater transmissions, classic telecasts from the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, and hundreds of radio broadcasts dating back to 1936. All videos contain English subtitles and recent performances include subtitles in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. FAQs and Troubleshooting Tips User Guide
Comprehensive collection of classical music. Currently the collection totals 2,539,019 tracks of fine recorded music with hundreds of albums added monthly.
Limited to 3 simultaneous users. Please Log Out when you are finished. Faculty: Stable URLs for albums, tracks and playlists can be placed in Blackboard. To create playlists for your students, please contact Lynn Mayo for the faculty username and password.
Wide selection of Jazz Music: From jazz legends to contemporary jazz. Recordings of over 32,000 artists are represented.
Naxos Music Library World App is available for both iOS and Android devices.
Limited to 3 simultaneous users. Please Log Out when you are finished. Faculty: Stable URLs for albums, tracks and playlists can be placed in Blackboard. To create playlists for your students, please contact Lynn Mayo for the faculty username and password.
A wide range of content, from legendary historical performances to contemporary world music. Music from over 150 countries, more than 1,500 cultural groups represented. Includes the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
Naxos Music Library World App is available for both iOS and Android devices.
Limited to 3 simultaneous users. Please Log Out when you are finished. Faculty: Stable URLs for albums, tracks and playlists can be placed in Blackboard. To create playlists for your students, please contact Lynn Mayo for the faculty username and password.
More than 550 full-length Met performances, including HD videos from the Met's award-winning Live in HD series of movie theater transmissions, classic telecasts from the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, and hundreds of radio broadcasts dating back to 1936. All videos contain English subtitles and recent performances include subtitles in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. FAQs and Troubleshooting Tips User Guide
From the University of California, Santa Barbara. Contains over 8,000 digital audio files of recordings made in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including popular songs, Vaudeville, minstrel music, and more.