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Formerly known as The International Index to Music Periodicals, Music Periodicals Database is a music journal resource with almost 800,000 indexed articles, plus detailed abstracts and full text from 1874 to the present, covering the scholarly to the popular.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature is a comprehensive bibliography on writings about music featuring citations, abstracts, and indexes. It covers over one million publications from around the world on traditional music, popular music, classical music, and related subjects. Coverage begins in the early 19th century and extends to the present.

Formerly known as the International Index to Performing Arts, the Performing Arts Periodicals Database provides indexing and abstracts for a wide range of journals from 1864 to the present covering theatre, dance, film, stagecraft, musical theatre, television, performance art, storytelling, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic, and other performing arts.

The home of Grove Music Online and the access point for new and forthcoming Oxford music reference subscriptions and products.

Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG) is a general encyclopedia of music. MGG is encyclopedic in the true sense of that term: it offers in-depth articles on every aspect of music as well as many related areas such as literature, philosophy, and visual arts. MGG Online contains the second print edition of MGG, published from 1994 to 2008, as well as current, continuous online updates and additions.

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music is widely regarded as an authoritative academic source for ethnomusicology. It takes a cultural approach to the music of all the world's people and is arranged topically, regionally, or by ethnic group.

Multidisciplinary, full text database for more than 4,500 journals, including peer-reviewed titles, some back to 1975.

Scholarly journal archive, going back to the first issue for many titles.

A general database of millions of article citations published in the arts, humanities and social sciences, across more than 300 years.

A digital library of over two million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and teaching purposes. Includes images of musical instruments and performance space architecture.

Worldwide union catalog of books and other materials in OCLC member libraries.

The International Music Score Library Project, also know as the Petrucci Music Library, is a database of music scores in the public domain. IMSLP contains over 300,000 scores from over 14,000 composers.

As the only electronic resource for individual pieces of music published in standard scholarly editions, IPM provides detailed indexing, making it an invaluable resource for music researchers and students. Included is music from ancient Greek times to the present, with content searchable by composer name or ID, editor, genre, language, librettist, publisher name, series, and more.

This collection holds digitized images of some of the world's oldest surviving volumes of printed music.

The Archive consists of the original manuscripts from which the music was printed, printed music, personal and corporate correspondence, photographs (primarily composers/arrangers), business records, plate books, publication books, stock and cash books. The online presentation includes only music manuscripts, with available digital items linked directly to the items in the finding aid.

The Web Library of Seventeenth-Century Music is a service offered by the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music to its members and to the musical community at large. It presents new scholarly editions of seventeenth-century compositions that have remained unpublished or that are not available commercially.