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Music, Theatre and other Arts
primary sources
ACM Digital Library
Information Technology: - ACM Digital Library: all their publications available in full-text (journals, conference reports, newsletters, special interest groups, except for the e-books) - The Guide to Computing Literature: references to other - non-ACM - literature including dissertations and technical reports.
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Cambridge Companions Online: Music
Contains books on composers, instruments and musical topics.
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Classical Scores Library (Vol. 1-4)
Contains the most important classical musical scores, manuscripts and previously unpublished material. Access also via Music Online.
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FIAF
Abstracts from 300 film journals since 1972, brief information on 22'000 silent movies, a bibliography of the publications of the members of FIAF (International Federation of Film Archives) and an international directory of film and TV documentation collections.
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MGG Online - Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart
MGG is a comprehensive music encyclopedia. Access for BFH, FHNW, HSLU, ZHdK and PHZH.
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Music Online
This collection of music sources includes music scores and audio databases.
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- Music scores: Classical Scores Library (Vol. 1-4)
- Audio databases: American Song, Classical Music Library, Contemporary World Music, Popular Music, Jazz Music Library, Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
- Reference works: African American Music Reference, Classical Music Reference Library, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
Oxford Music Online
Contains three continually updated dictionaries: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2002), Encyclopedia of Popular Music, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, The Oxford Companion to Music
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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
Most extensive bibliography of musical literature worldwide with references from more than 2'000 music journals and 11'000 journals from other fields as well as conference reports from 1835 to the present.
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RISM International Inventory of Musical Sources
Documentation of musical manuscripts since 1600, mostly 1600-1850.
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further sources
Cambridge Books Online
About 2'000 e-books are available to users at the universities of applied sciences and arts on the Cambridge Core platform. The chapters of the e-books can be opened, saved and printed. Unlimited simultaneous access.
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Dissertations & Theses (A&I)
References for more than 2.4 million dissertations and master's theses worldwide from 1861. Abstracts are available for dissertations from 1980 and for master's theses from 1988. Previews of the first 24 pages are available for some dissertations.
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Encyclopedia of Popular Music
This encyclopedia contains more than 27'000 entries on all aspects of populer music since 1900 (musicians, songs, festivals, recordings, etc.)
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Factiva
Newspapers and magazines worldwide, including several Swiss publications, as well as company information and press photographs. Alerts are not possible.
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Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
Provides information on academic journals, such as the impact factor, as a measure to assess the significance of a publication.
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JSTOR E-Books: Music Collection 2007-2013
Contains 63 titles from 2007 to 2013. Titles not marked with an X are accessible.
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Nexis Uni
Swiss and international newspapers and magazines (e.g. Tages-Anzeiger, Handelszeitung, La Tribune de Genève, Bilan) as well as country and company information (e.g. Creditreform Schweizer Firmen).
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NZZ (via Genios)
Archive of the NZZ and NZZ Folio from 1993 to the present and the NZZ am Sonntag from 2002 to the present.
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Oxford Art Online
The Swiss colleges are subscribed to The Grove Dictionary of Art, a 34 volume encyclopedia of international art and culture with links to pictures and information in museums and art collections. Access limited to 1 cc.
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Oxford Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre
LinkOxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
LinkOxford International Encyclopedia of Dance
LinkWeb of Science
Multidispiplinary database including:
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- Science Citation Index
- Social Science Citation Index (with economics)
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index (with architecture)
- Emerging Sources Citation Index
- Conference Proceedings Citation Index: - Science - Social Sciences & Humanities
other links
American Film Institute Catalog of Feature Films
Information related to American feature-length and short films.
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IMDb Internet Movie Database
Information related to films, television programs, video productions, and video games.
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onstage
onstage is a database that lists and publishes the programmes of public musical activities organized by various Swiss institutions. onstage consists of concert programmes, lectures, courses, examinations and prize concerts from 1826 to the present day.
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Swiss jazz biographies
The Swiss National Sound Archives offer more than 1'000 biographies of Swiss jazz musicians with links to audio files of their work.
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