For students and employees

The AMKP library provides access to licensed electronic sources for the entire academic community. These are:

• Oxford Music Online – a package of electronic publications of an encyclopedic nature. Includes: Grove Music Online, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, The Oxford Companion to Music.
• JSTOR – a digital platform providing access to foreign scientific magazines. The license covers music magazines.
• Naxos Music Library – a collection currently comprising over 100,000 CDs from various record companies, including: ARC, Berlin Classics, BIS, Capriccio, Chandos, EMI Classics, Erato, Finlandia, Hänssler Classic, Harmonia Mundi, Hungaroton, Naïve, Naxos, Nonesuch, Nimbus, Ondine, RCA Records, Sony Classical, Teldec, Virgin Classics and Warner Classics.
  Here you can listen not only to classical music, but also to contemporary jazz, blues, pop music and classic rock. The recordings are usually accompanied by a text file with a description. In addition, the website includes i.a. biographical notes of many composers and performers and a dictionary of musical terms. Always LOG OUT after using the Naxos databases.
• Naxos Video Library – an audiovisual collection of operas, ballets, documentaries, concerts, masterclasses, competitions and musical tours, as well as footage taken from recording sessions. It includes productions from Opus Arte, Naxos, BelAir Classiques, C Major, Christopher Nupen Films, DakApp, Digital Classics Distribution, Dynamic, EuroArts, Global Television, Golandsky Institute, Hänssler Classic, ICA Classics, iClassical Academy, Ideale Audience, K&K Verlagsanstalt, Lyrichord, Marco Polo, Music in Motion, Reina Sofía School of Music, Seventh Art Productions, San Francisco Symphony, Hannover International Violin Competition, TMW Media Group, Unitel, Videoland and others. The Library is being updated continuously to offer the best selection of performing arts videos.
  We would like to remind you that you must always LOG OUT of the Naxos database before leaving it.
• RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text– a database featuring content from over 45 countries and published from the early 20th century to the present. Most coverage commences with the first issue of the journal and includes cover-to-cover full text for every included title. In addition to scholarly articles and reviews, the database includes obituaries, editorials, correspondence, advertisements, news items, and more. More information at: RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text

How to use e-resources?

You can use e-resources in the Reading Room and on devices connected to the university Ethernet or Wi-Fi network without logging in.

AMKP employees, students and doctoral students, interested in remote access to the above-mentioned databases, please send a message titled ONLINE ACCESS to the address biblioteka@amuz.krakow.pl in order to receive instructions on how to proceed.

Links to e-resources can be found at the bottom of each tab on the Library’s website.

We also encourage you to use EBSCO databases available under a national licence financed by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. As part of the Virtual Science Library project, the basic EBSCO package is available, which includes 15 databases, i.e.:

– 8 full-text databases:

• Academic Search Ultimate – a multidisciplinary database that contains a wealth of content in the field of arts
• Business Source Ultimate
• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
• Health Source – Consumer Edition
• Master File Premier
• MasterFile eBook Reference Collection
• Newspaper Source
• Regional Business News

– 7 abstract databases:

• AGRICOLA
• ERIC
• GreenFILE
• Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
• MEDLINE
• Teacher Reference Centre
• European Views of the Americas

The OpenDissertations database is also available.

A description of the databases can be found on the dedicated websites: www.ebsco.com and about.ebsco.com.

All databases are available in the Reading Room and on devices connected to the academic Ethernet or Wi-Fi network on the EBSCOhost Platform at: https://research.ebsco.com/c/fsdw6c

Open access resources

Recommended online sources:

IMSLP Petrucci Music Library – International Music Score Library Project is the most popular database containing scans of sheet music (most of which are available in the public domain, i.e. for free use) and recordings.

RISM – Répertoire International des Sources Musicales documents musical sources from around the world, including manuscripts, printed music, and librettos and texts about music.

CPDL – Choral Public Domain Library

Mutopia Project – Free Sheet Music for Everyone

Ninateka – Ninateka provides access to audio and video files, including documentaries, feature films, reportages, animations, experimental films, recordings of theater and opera performances, recordings of concerts, reports documenting cultural and social life and radio broadcasts. Access to most of the materials is free and does not require logging in. All content is completely ad-free.

British Library Sounds – British Library Sounds allow you to listen to audio recordings from the British Library’s vast, unique collection. Collections from around the world are divided into categories, such as classical music, popular music, traditional music, art, literature and theater, sounds of nature and the environment.

Bach Gesellschaft

Beethoven-Haus in Bonn

Chopin Early Editions

Neue Mozart-Ausgabe: Digitized Version

Federacja Bibliotek Cyfrowych (Digital Libraries Federation)

Europeana

Polona

Dziedzictwo Muzyki Polskiej (The Heritage of Polish Music)

e-Kolekcja Czasopism Polskich (Online Collection of Polish Journals)

BazHum – a bibliographic database of the content of Polish academic journals in the field of humanities and social sciences.

Online magazines

“Wychowanie Muzyczne” (Music Education)

“Glissando”

“Pismo De Musica”

“Piosenka – Rocznik kulturalny” (A Song – Cultural Yearbook)

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