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Searching in a library catalog requires looking for broader topics such as choral singing rather than the more specific health benefits of choral singing.
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Library of Congress Classification Outline
Class M - Music
Call number areas or shelf locations for printed music publications are in the M (Music Scores) or ML (Literature on Music) or MT (Music Instruction and Study) areas. Consult the Library of Congress Classification Outline for specific categories.
Library of Congress Subject Headings includes specialized music categories for:
- Mediums of Performance. See the full online thesaurus from A clarinet to zūrna
- LCSH - Form Subdivisions for ScoresComplete alphabetic list of musical score form subdivisions from "2-harpsichord scores" to "Vocal scores without accompaniment"
- Understanding Call Numbers
Explains how to read a Library of Congress call number.
Locate books beyond the UC Libraries
- WorldCat This link opens in a new windowOCLC catalog of millions of records for books, journal titles and materials in other formats from approximately 12,000 libraries worldwide.
[Coverage: 1000 A.D.-present]
Comprehensive Open-Access Portals to Library Collections/Catalogs
- HathiTrust This link opens in a new windowA repository of scanned books contributed from academic institutions across the United States, including UC campuses, and those digitized by Google and the Internet Archive. Books still in copyright are scanned and searchable, but the full text scans will not become available online until their copyright expires. Although there is significant overlap with Google books, this site has a much more effective and sophisticated search interface. For additional details, see the HathiTrust Help Page.
- Internet Archive This link opens in a new windowThe Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. It includes large online collections of moving images, music and audio recordings. Spin magazine notes that the Internet Archive is the “world’s worst looking website with the world’s largest music collection”.
- Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Catalog - the UC Libraries are members of the Center and can borrow foreign newspapers, dissertations, and more
- KVK: Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog – searches many European library catalogs
- LibDex - Worldwide listing of library homepages, web online catalogs, and more
- LibWeb – Library Servers via WWW (over 8000 pages from libraries in 148 countries)
- Europeana: Music settingThe Europeana website provides ... access to Europe's digital cultural heritage. The collection includes ... "millions of items from providing institutions across Europe including ... artworks, books, music, and videos on art, newspapers, archaeology, fashion, science, sport, and much more."
* > 31 million images
* > 24 million text files
* > 1.2 million audio files
* > 360,000 videos
* > 4,700 3D items
Access eBooks via major publisher collections:
- Project Muse Ebook Collection This link opens in a new windowProject MUSE offers content from over 200 not-for-profit publishers including many university presses, scholarly societies, independent publishers, and academic departments. Subjects include the humanities, social sciences, the arts, philosophy, and religion.
[Select Ebooks: 2017-2022]
- Science Direct eBook CollectionThousands of e-books with broad and favorable rights for scientific, scholarly and educational uses. Subjects include life, health and physical sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. EXCLUSIONS to the Elsevier collection are textbooks, major reference works, some professional and trade titles, and consumer books. NOTE: Green symbol on right indicates if accessible.
- De Gruyter University Press Library This link opens in a new windowMulti-disciplinary collection of ebooks selected from the front list titles of participating university presses. Participants include: Amsterdam University Press, Columbia University Press, Cornell University Press, Duke University Press, Fordham University Press, Harvard University Press, New York University Press, Princeton University Press, Rutgers University Press, Stanford University Press, University of California Press, University of Chicago Press, University of Pennsylvania Press, University of Toronto Press, and Yale University Press.
UCD has also purchased frontlists for:
Columbia University Press: 2019-2022
Cornell University Press: 2019-2022
Harvard University Press: 2018-2022
University of California Press: 2000-2013 and 2016-2022
Yale University Press: 2019-2022
University Press titles may also be available in print or through other online packages and for additional years. Check UC Library Search for access to specific titles. - UC Press eBooks Collection This link opens in a new windowThe University of California eBooks Collection includes about 2,000 titles and is made available through a partnership between the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program. About 25% of the titles are available to the general public; the rest are for University of California faculty, staff, and students only. Collection emphasizes social science and humanities.
[Coverage: 1982-2004]
Additional UC Press titles are available via the De Gruyter University Press Library
University Press titles may also be available in print or through other online packages and for additional years. Check UC Library Search for access to specific titles.
- Wiley eBooks CollectionFull-text searching and access to more than 22,000 ebooks from the life, physical, health, and social sciences, as well as the humanities disciplines.
Coverage: 1790 - present - Taylor & Francis eBooksFull-text searching across the ebooks and major reference works published by Taylor & Francis and its imprints: CRC Press, Routledge, Garland and Psychology Press. Browse list of titles available. Disciplinary scope and coverage vary. Former CRCnetBASE collections incorporated in this collection include: AGRICULTUREnetBASE, BiomedicalSCIENCEnetBASE, CHEMnetBASE, ENGnetBASE, ENVIROnetBASE, FOODnetBASE, FORENSICnetBASE, MATHnetBASE, NUTRITIONnetBASE, STATSnetBASE and VETnetBASE (VetMed). Also included are newer Burleigh Dodds ebooks for agriculture.
- Springer eBooks CollectionSpringer eBooks includes more than 60,000 titles in English (and selectively in German) from every scientific discipline and many social sciences. Coverage: 2005-2020. This online interface enables all books to be searchable at the full-text level. Scope (textbook areas are starred) ranges from Architecture and Design, *Behavioral Science, *Biomedical and Life Sciences, *Business and Economics, *Chemistry and Materials Science, *Computer Science, *Earth and Environmental Science, *Engineering, *Humanities & Social Sciences and Law, *Mathematics and Statistics, *Medicine, *Physics and Astronomy, to Professional and Applied Computing. NEW books are added monthly. NOTE: Springer puts out new year titles 6 months before the new year date. Our contract is from Jan-Dec so a very recent book may not be accessible the first months of the new year. For example a 2021 book may be released in August 2020 but is NOT accessible until well into 2021.
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Coverage: 2005-2022