Bach digital
The Bach digital portal offers a digital library with complete scans of works from a database of manuscript sources with compositions by the Bach family Catalogues of works by the Bach family.
BASE Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) is one of the world’s largest search engines for academic web documents. The index comprises over 300 million documents from over 10,000 data providers. The full texts of around 60% of the documents indexed in BASE are freely accessible (open access). The BASE search engine is operated by Bielefeld University Library.
Bibliography of music literature online
Bibliographical references, journal content database
Bonner Catalog
Directory of reverse bound musical performance materials, accessible via the catalog of the German National Library. In the “Advanced Search” it is possible to limit the search to the Bonn catalog under “Locations/Catalogs”.
Bruckner-online
bruckner-online.at is an extensive Anton Bruckner internet portal (web archive), which contains electronic documentation of manuscript sources as well as compositions, relevant persons and places. In addition, complete digital copies of all manuscripts, first editions and the Alte Gesamtausgabe are made available.
Database Information System (DBIS)
Subject area: Musicology
doab – directory of open access books
Search engine for freely accessible books in full text. “The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is a search service for open access books. DOAB provides a searchable index to peer-reviewed monographs and edited volumes published under an open access license, with links to the full texts of the publications on the publisher’s website or in the repository.”
Electronic Journals Library (EZB)
Directory of electronically published journals with many freely accessible full texts
German Music Information Centre (miz)
The German Music Information Centre (miz) is the central contact point for all questions revolving around musical life in Germany.
Pedagogy subject library
Specialized information from a variety of pedagogical databases
KOMU – Conference of Austrian Music Schools
with annotated sheet music
KVK – Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog
The Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog (KVK) is a meta search engine for several hundred million media in library and book trade catalogs worldwide.
The LiederNet Archive
The world’s largest collection of texts and translations of songs and choral works
Musiconn
A comprehensive research tool for searching for research literature and materials on musicology is now available to you.
Music database of the Music Information Center Austria (mica)
Comprehensive entries on contemporary Austrian or Austrian-based female composers, performers, bands, and ensembles. Current focus: new music and jazz
Austrian Music Dictionary online (oeml)
The fundamental reference work on music and musical life in Austria in all its facets
OAPEN
Online library of open access books
Open Dissertations
Database of EBSCO and BiblioLabs with more than 800,000 free electronic theses and dissertations (mainly in English)
NOTE: in some cases only the abstracts are accessible, not the full texts of the theses
peDOCS
Open Access publications for educational science and educational research
Research Catalogue
International database for artistic research
RISM – Répertoire international des Sources Musicales
International encyclopedia of musical sources. Approximately 700,000 entries for researching musical sources (mainly historical manuscript music written before 1800)
Subito literature delivery service
Paid document delivery service from libraries in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
Folk music database of the folk song archives in Austria and South Tyrol
Database of the Austrian Folk Song Archive
Periodicals Database (ZDB)
The ZDB is the world’s largest database for title and ownership records of serial collected works, i.e. journals, newspapers, etc.
The Wind Repertory Project
Sheet music database with works for wind instruments, wind ensembles, and wind orchestras
WorldCat
Enables you to search the library collections of thousands of libraries worldwide.
Zinfonia
Zinfonia combines information direct from many of the world’s largest hire/rental/performance and sale catalogues into one place. You can communicate directly with your local distributor to ask questions, receive quotes or to place an order.