Provides high-level overviews of scholarship to navigate new areas of study and selectively-curated, highly-credible sources offer the advanced resources needed for continued research in various area of expertise.

Dissertations and theses, covers 1743 to the present. University of California databases issued since 1997 are available to download as PDF.

Includes citations from academic journals and popular periodicals. Coverage from 1996 onward, with additional coverage that starts in 1875.

Includes citations from academic articles and popular periodicals. Covers 1970 to the present.

Includes citations from academic journals. Covers traditional, classical, and popular music; 19th century to the present.

Database of citations, abstracts, and full text for articles in both scholarly and popular performing-arts periodicals. Covers dance, theater, film, mime, opera, puppetry, radio, television, video, storytelling, and performance art.

Learn who has cited an article or book. Search for articles across the arts and humanities.

Search the full run of journals, some dating back to more than 100 years. Provides easy access to PDFs.
Note that JSTOR excludes articles published in the last 3-7 years.

This searches across all 10 UC Library collections and beyond. Sign in using your CruzID Gold in order to find: books, e-books, articles, journals, films, maps, and more.

This is the FirstSearch version: A union catalog, it enables you to search the holdings of libraries across the country and internationally.
Catalogs generally contain: books, journal titles, sound recordings, movies, newspapers and so on.

A resource that provides free public access to detailed descriptions of primary source collections (artwork, manuscripts, papers, historic photographs, and so on) maintained by more than 200 libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies, and museums throughout California — including collections maintained by the 10 University of California (UC) campuses.

Includes nearly a million collection descriptions of historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives from thousands of libraries, museums, and archives from around the world

This resource contains materials from cultural studies of music from across the globe. Produced in collaboration with the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive and the Ethnomusicology Archive at the University of Washington, the material in this collection includes thousands of audio field recordings and interviews, educational recordings, film footage, field notebooks, slides, correspondence and ephemera from over 60 fields of study
Requires VPN to access.

Nkoda is digital library of sheet music and scores. Users can view, annotate, and share music. Search content, browse curated playlists, and discover new music using unique smart technology.

Registration is required. Click the red button "Get Started," followed by "Sign up with an institution." Select "University of California, Santa Cruz Library."
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This audio collection includes the diverse catalogue of American music represented by the New World Records and CRI label(s), covering folk to opera, Native American to jazz, 19th century classical to early rock, musical theater, contemporary, electronic and beyond, plus contemporary American composition and restored to circulation recordings formerly out of print. DRAM also includes music from a growing number of recording labels and archives.

The UCSC Library's collection of streaming videos includes film, sitcoms, anime, documentaries, etc.

Learn research methods from case studies and essays detailing specific methodologies. Includes practical information about research design, interviews, literature review and grant writing.