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Framingham State College Library Catalog
Owned by FSC and 40+ area libraries, FSC online library catalog provides access to information about books and other materials.


WorldCat
World Catalog indexes books and electronic resources owned by over 10,000 libraries worldwide, including Internet sites, by name and subject via First Search. FirstSearch provides online access to more than 30 databases.

Find Journals

Full-Text Electronic Journal Finder
The Full Text Electronic Journal Finder helps you locate full text journals by title that are in the online periodical databases held by FSC's Whittemore Library. Use this if you know the name of a particular journal and want to see if the library has full-text access online.

Full Text Databases

Academic Search Premier (1965 - present)
Full text reference database. Includes over 4700 journals of which 2700 are peer reviewed journals. Current and multi-disciplinary database.

Expanded Academic ASAP (1980 - present)
Research topics in a variety of areas including the humanities. A multi-disciplinary database.

Project Muse
Full text access to over 300 high quality journals in the humanities, arts, and social sciences from 60 scholarly publishers.

Reference Books

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians Ref ML 100 N48 2001

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Ref ML 100 G16 1998 Vols. 1-10

The New Grove Dictionary of Opera Ref ML 102 06 N5 1992

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Ref ML 102 P66 G84 1998 Vols. I-VIII

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians Ref ML 105 B16 1992

The New Grove Dictionary of Opera Ref ML 102 o6 N5 1992

Grammar & Style Guides

Cite a Source
Provides examples for bibliography lists for the APA, Chicago, and MLA style formats.

Bibliographies & Works Cited Pages
A list of websites that contain rules and examples for bibliography lists in the APA, CBE, Chicago, MLA, Turabian, and other styles.

Other Recommended Websites

Music sites on Del.icio.us
Websites recommended by the Framingham State College community.

Voice of the Shuttle
General music resources as well as resources for specific periods of music, composers, and musictheory.

Internet Resources for Music Scholars
Harvard University's guide to digital music collections by library and subject area. Includes information on composers, from The Library of Congress and The Smithsonian Institution.

Worldwide Internet Music Resources
Indiana University Music School's links on a variety of topics including composers and composition, groups and ensembles, and individual musicians.

DW3 Classical Music Resources
Information on composers, links to classical music stations with live audio, links to organizations for scholarly research.

Classical Composers Database
Very comprehensive site on classical composers.

Yahoo Music
Extensive list of links to Web Sites covering many aspects of music including genres, instruments, theory, and news.

Smithsonian Jazz
Educational Web on the history of jazz with audio clips and links to other sites.

Ethnomusicology Resources on the Web
A website detailing Yale University's Sterling Memorial Library collection of literature in English. Includes literature of the UK, US, and literary writings in English from Ireland, Canada, Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand and the Caribbean. Access to collections, and descriptions of materials.

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