The Library is pleased to announce the addition of Oxford Music Online to the expanding collection of electronic resources available from our website. It joins other esteemed Oxford University Press digital titles such as The Oxford English Dictionary, The Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford Art Online, and Oxford Reference Online.

Oxford Music Online is a cross-searchable database that features more than 50,000 signed articles and 30,000 biographies contributed by over 6,000 scholars from around the world. The database includes full contents of the following Oxford University Press publications: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition (29 vols., 2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd edition (2002), The Oxford Dictionary of Music, 2nd edition (2006), and The Oxford Companion to Music (2011). Popular music, classical, jazz, folk, gospel, blues, opera, whatever one's listening tastes or research interests, there is something here. Extensive discographies and bibliographies accompany many entries.

The process of adding text from two new and forthcoming print publications, The Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd edition (8 vols., 2013), and The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, 2nd edition (5 vols., 2014), is ongoing. When these volumes are fully online, they will add more than 20,000 new and revised articles to the database.

The search interface is versatile and easy to use. Articles are available in a printer-friendly format or may be e-mailed.

Oxford Music Online is available in the Library or remotely for members who are logged in to the website. To access the database,
1. Click on the Our Collection tab on the Library's homepage.
2. In the Digital Collections box at lower right, click View All Electronic Resources.

The Library currently provides members with access to twenty databases. Our digital collection includes reference sources, scholarly journals, periodicals, book reviews, full-text historical content from the New York Herald Tribune and the New York Times, as well as audiobook downloads (OneClick Digital) and a collection of over 2,500 university press e-books on various history subjects via our subscription to Project MUSE. Browse our full list of our electronic resources here and watch this space for new additions as they become available. For assistance with any of the Library's databases, stop by the Reference Desk.