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Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians since 1990 Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains the fully-searchable text of Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians since 1990 (2 vols.; New York: Schirmer, 2004). Includes entries on 550 individual artists and groups and covers rock, rap, metal, post-grunge, electronica, house, pop, country, Latin, jazz, Broadway, and other types of contemporary music.
Chicago Manual of Style Online Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains the fully-searchable text of the 15th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style as well as the Chicago-Style Quick Guide and regularly-updated questions and answers about the style. Note: Up to ten people can search this resource at any one time. If you are unable to login because this limit has been reached, please wait a few minutes and try again.
Credo Reference: Music Resources Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains the full text of the Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music, The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music, The Harvard Dictionary of Music, and the Penguin Dictionary of Music. You can also search the entire Credo Reference collection, which covers many disciplines and subject areas.
Grove Music Online (Part of Oxford Music Online) Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains the full-text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed., with updates), with over over 29,000 articles about people, places, organizations, and terminology associated with the study of western classical, popular, and world music. Also provides links to sound files, image files, and related Web sites and includes The Grove Dictionary of Opera, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd ed., the Oxford Companion to Music (2002), and the Oxford Dictionary of Music, 2nd ed. rev. Updated monthly.
IPA Source Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	New! A collection of both International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of over 700 opera arias and 4,400 song texts.
Reference Universe Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Try this first! Search Reference Universe to find out which reference works contain information on your topic. Reference Universe indexes many of the library's reference books and e-books.

Other Resources
American Broadsides & Ephemera, Series I Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(c. 1760-1900) Contains more than 30,000 digital facsimiles of broadsides and ephemera, including advertisements, handbills, trade cards, theatre and music programs, stock certificates, menus, and many other works. This collection is part of the Archive of Americana.
American Memory Off-Campus access available; no password required.	A collection of over 9 million primary source documents and archival materials related to American history and culture. Includes a wide variety of materials, including manuscripts, government documents, pamphlets, books, and other publications as well as photographs, prints, maps, sheet music, video clips, and sound files. There are over 100 thematic collections in American Memory; you can search across all collections or browse or search individual collections. From the Library of Congress.
ebrary Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains over 38,000 e-books published by over 220 academic, trade, and professional publishers; covers all subject areas. Also includes tools that allow you to create your own virtual bookshelf, bookmark pages, and add and save notes and highlights. Note: To read ebrary books, you need the ebrary Reader. This plugin is loaded on all library computers, but if you are using your own computer, you can download it by clicking on the "ebrary Reader" button within ebrary. See also the system requirements for ebrary.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	New interface and more content! (1701-1800) Contains the full text of 180,000 books, pamphlets, almanacs, advertisements, songs, and other materials published in Great Britain and British North America during the eighteenth century; also includes digital facsimiles of each of the works.
Essay and General Literature Index Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1900 to present) Indexes essays published in books and edited collections. Covers the fields of art, economics, education, history, law, linguistics, literature, music, philosophy, political science, and religion, among others. Particularly strong in the humanities and social sciences.
Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS) Off-Campus access available; no password required.	(1935 to present) Indexes journal articles, books, book chapters, and conference papers on topics related to Latin America. Fields covered include anthropology, archaeology, art, economics, geography, history, international relations, language and literature, music, philosophy, political science, and sociology. Produced by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Note that printed volumes of HLAS are available in Little Library’s Reference collection, and volumes 1–53 (1953-1994) are also available on CD-ROM.
Humanities Abstracts Full Text & Humanities Index Retrospective Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1907 to present) Indexes articles in over 500 English-language periodicals in the fields of archaeology, art, classics, communication, film, folklore, history, languages and literatures, music, philosophy, religion, and theatre. Also includes citations for book, theatre, and film reviews as well as interviews, obituaries, and some original creative works. Includes the full text of selected articles from 1995 to the present.
JSTOR Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	A searchable archive of the back issues of major scholarly journals.
Musical America Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Provides current music industry news and a directory containing information about thousands of artists, managers, opera companies, dance companies, art festivals, performing arts series, competitions, music schools, and more.
PBS Videos (NC LIVE Media Collection) Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	An online collection of over 220 educational and documentary programs produced for the Public Broadcasting Corporation (PBS). Includes selected episodes from "American Experience" and "Frontline," Ken Burns's "Civil War" and "Jazz," and much more. Technical requirements: Flash Media Player 9.0 or higher and a high-speed Internet connection.
Periodicals Index Online (formerly PCI: Periodicals Contents Index) Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1665 to 1995) Indexes articles from humanities and social sciences periodicals from their first issues to 1995. Particularly useful for locating references to articles from the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. International in scope.
Project Muse Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(c. mid-1990s to present) A searchable collection of full-text articles from journals published by university and scholarly presses.
WorldCat Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	A union catalogue of books, videos, musical scores, archival resources, maps, periodicals, and other materials held by U.S. and international libraries.