Key databases relevant for Music are listed below. A full list of all our databases can be found on the Databases page.
Box of Broadcasts - BoB: the British Universities Film & Video Council's on-demand TV and radio service for education. This service allows students and staff to view, record, create clips and share broadcast programmes from over 60 TV and radio channels.
LinkedIn Learning: (formerly Lynda.com) tutorials created by industry experts on a wide range of topics. New courses and videos are added every week.
Music Ally: this database contains searchable current news, in-depth country profiles, analysis, and digital marketing reports that are essential for keeping you up to date in the fast paced commercial music industry.
MusicID: Global music industry data, incorporating 5,452 different charts spanning 74 countries. Perpetually-updated, week-to-week information on iTunes downloads, Spotify and Apple Music streams. Track the worldwide top earning recordings of the 21st century to reveal the most successful artists, singles, and albums of the last twenty years.
Naxos Music Library: contains the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues, with over 130,000 tracks including classical music, jazz, world music and Chinese music, searchable by composer, artist, period, year of composition, instrument or genre.
Oxford Music Online: provides access to Grove Music Online, The Oxford Dictionary of Music and the Oxford Companion to Music.
Rock's Back Pages: a comprehensive online database of pop music writing. The database contains an ever-expanding collection of primary-source, full-text music writing. Sourced from the pages of the music and mainstream press, it is a library of articles (reviews, interviews, features and more) from the early '60s up to present day and includes a growing collection of exclusive audio interviews. The archive covers all types of popular music from the 1950s to the present: from Abba to Frank Zappa, the Rolling Stones to the Stone Roses and from Elvis Presley to Eminem.
If you're looking for a particular e-journal title, use our e-journals search engine. Note that a single e-journal title may be held in several different e-journal collections (databases).
Here is a selection of relevant e-journals for Music:
International Music Score Library Project: A virtual library containing all public domain musical scores, as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music.
Searchable by composers, nationality, time period, instrument and genre. Over 465,000 musical scores currently available, and this number increases every month.
PDF versions of individual scores can be downloaded and printed.
SCONUL Access: SCONUL is a scheme which allows many university library users to borrow or use books and journals at other libraries which belong to the scheme. It covers most of the university libraries in the UK and Ireland.
