Resources

The Vanderbilt University Library is pleased to announce the adoption of the fifth installment of JSTOR’s Arts & Sciences Collection. This represents an important advance in support of research and teaching across humanities and social sciences disciplines. This collection adds an additional 3 million pages of content to the… Read More

There are now more than 1000 recordings in the Blair Performance Archive, a database of recital performances at Blair! That’s 197 faculty recitals, 34 guest artist recitals, 626 student performer/ensemble recordings, 36 master classes, 79 lectures and 4 viola marathons! If you’ve yet to visit the Blair Performance Archive, please… Read More

E-books formerly part of the netLibrary collection are now fully integrated into the EBSCOhost platform as part of the “ebooks on EBSCOhost” collection.  “ebooks on EBSCOhost” can be found in the library’s database A-Z list.  Records for individual titles appear in Acorn with links to the e-books. As with netLibrary,… Read More

Rock’s Backpages (www.rocksbackpages.com) is an online library of rock writing. It features approximately 17,000 articles, reviews, and interviews from music magazines and the mainstream press, dating from the early 1960s to the present. The database currently features more than 17,000 articles, representing approximately 2,000 different artists (including the Beatles,… Read More

On December 20th, 32 library databases will migrate to a new and more powerful ProQuest platform. The affected databases are now hosted by ProQuest, CSA and Chadwyck Healey and include two music databases: International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) and RILM. The new ProQuest platform will include the following: The… Read More

Vanderbilt library items are meant to be shared. If something you need is checked out, you may place a special hold on an item, called a “recall,” that will let the user who has it know it is needed. Recalls can be placed by clicking on a “Recall this item… Read More

Unfortunately, OCLC will no longer be providing access to the music databases RILM and RIPM on the FirstSearch platform. We will now have access to RILM from ProQuest, and RIPM will be hosted by Ebsco. The links will be changed on Thursday, October 28, because access to FirstSearch will be… Read More

Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO) is an entirely new research tool for the social sciences and humanities. A scholar-curated library of discipline-based subject modules, OBO is designed to help busy researchers find reliable sources of information in half the time by directing them to exactly the right chapter, book, website, archive,… Read More

On Thursday, Oct. 7, from 4-5 PM in the Music Library’s seminar room, Jacob Schaub (music cataloger) will give a presentation on the Blair Performance Archive (BPA). This presentation will be part of a conference program for an upcoming meeting of the Southeast Music Library Association. All are invited to… Read More

A Blu-ray player is now available for use in the Music Library. A small but growing collection of Blu-ray discs is available for check out. Give us your suggestions on the titles that you would like to see on Blu-ray. Click here to make a suggestion(s). The seminar room… Read More