Music

This is UCLan's Music library page.

For more help and guidance please contact your Subject Librarians: Julie Hitchen and Francesca Robinson

Books

Search for books and ebooks using Library Search.

Sometimes there may only be a chapter on a specific topic rather than a whole book. To find those, you will need to use one of our ebook databases which allow you to search through the whole text of a book. We have several ebook collections but Ebook Central is our largest collection.

Journals and Articles

Journal Finder provides details of our print and e-journals collections. Library Search will find specific articles from journals so is a good place to start, as it searches across thousands of different journals and will uncover articles in places you may not think to look.

The Wire magazine is available online from the first issue in 1982 to present. For off-campus access, select 'login', then 'via institution'.

You should then move on to search for articles in more subject-specific databases which are shown below.

eResources and Databases

Music specific resources

Film & Television Literature Index with full text - Film & Television Literature Index with Full-Text is the definitive online tool for film and television research.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature - RILM gives citations on international music with full bibliographical information and abstracts in English.
Rock's Backpages - Rock's Backpages contains 12,000 articles, interviews and reviews from music writers and critics from 1950s to now in an exclusive archive of 50 years of Rock'n'Roll history.
78rpm Records Digitised by George Blood - This is a collection of over 40,000 78rpm records which have been digitised and made available on this site. No username or password is required for this site.

Additional Resources

Visual resources

Alexander Street Video - Videos, films, documentaries and training materials in music and arts related areas
Box of Broadcasts - BoB (Box of Broadcasts) National is an innovative shared online off-air TV and radio recording service for UK higher and further education institutions.
Kanopy - Documentaries, performances and instructional videos which have been broadcast worldwide. Also includes hundreds of independent films.
LinkedIn Learning - online training videos in a range of subjects including music, software, business and education. You can upload certificates to your LinkedIn accounts too.

Industry contacts & Market research

Financial Analysis Made Easy (FAME) - use to create contact lists for the music industry
IBIS World - industry overview reports
Mintel - reports from the leading market research company
Passport - market statistics on industries, countries and consumers worldwide

Our Electronic Resources section provides details of all our online resources and includes an E-Databases A-Z list.

Quick Links

Huge database of television going back 15 years

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