Arts

Welcome to the subject guide for arts! Here you will find databases, journals, links and other information that you may find useful when searching for material in a specific subject area.

Articles and databases

Interdisciplinary databases

• Academic Search Premier (LTU) External link.
  A multidisciplinary research database.
  
• Web of Science (LTU) External link, opens in new window.
  Covers several subject areas, including arts and humanities.
• Scopus (LTU) External link, opens in new window.
  Provides access to several databases and covers almost 10,000 leading journals in areas such as the arts and humanities.
• JSTOR (LTU) External link, opens in new window.
  An e-journal archive covering various academic disciplines, with limited access to the most recent years.

Databases in music

• IPA Source: IPA Transcriptions and Literal Translations of Songs and Arias (LTU) External link.
  A collection of International Phonetic Alphabet transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song lyrics.
• Oxford Grove Music Online (LTU) External link, opens in new window.
  Music encyclopedia covering music, musicians, music creation, and musicology. Linking to Grove Music Online.

Databases in audio technology

• AES E-Library (LTU) External link, opens in new window.
  Material in audio technology. Access through the university network or VPN.
• ACM Digital Library (LTU) External link.
  Contains material in digital art and music, games, multimedia and virtual environments.

Journals in arts

• DOAJ, Directory of Open Access Journals External link.
  Open-Access journals and articles within your subject area.
• Journals External link.
  Search among the University Library's journals within your subject area.

Links in arts

Vocal music

• Choral Public Domain Library – Sheet Music External link, opens in new window.
  A collection of over 12,000 choral sheet music pieces.
• Musica International External link, opens in new window.
  A digital library for choral music.
• Song And Tune Catalogue External link, opens in new window.
  A web-based version of Visarkivet's song and tune register. This database contains nearly 200,000 entries of songs and tunes from printed publications.

Guitar

• Heartwood Guitar Instructor External link, opens in new window.
  Chords, tablature and rhythms for guitar.
• Munich Digitisation Center External link, opens in new window.
  Freely available sheet music and manuscripts.

Orchestra

• The Roman Collection External link, opens in new window.
  Works by Johan Helmich Roman, available in Swedish.
  

Various links in music

• Boulanger Initiative Database External link, opens in new window.
  Women and Gender-Marginalised Composers Repertoire Database, freely available.
• Early Music Online External link, opens in new window.
  Early Music Online is a pilot project that digitised over 300 volumes of 16th-century music from the British Library’s collection, originally captured on microfilm.
• IMSLP – Petrucci Music Library External link.
  The world’s largest freely accessible music score library online.
• National Jukebox External link, opens in new window.
  A collection of historical sound recordings from the Library of Congress.
• Nordic Network for Music Education Research External link, opens in new window.
  A network of Nordic institutions focused on music education research and postgraduate studies.
• RISM External link, opens in new window.
  Répertoire International des Sources Musicales, RISM, is an international, non-profit organisation dedicated to the comprehensive documentation of musical sources worldwide.
• Subdatabases in LIBRIS External link, opens in new window.
  Search within the sub-databases: Bibliography of Swedish Music Literature or Nordic Yoik Archive.
  
• Swedish Musical Heritage External link, opens in new window.
  A collection of Swedish music scores available for free download.
• The Royal College of Music's song register External link, opens in new window.
  A register of Swedish songs.
• Women Composers Collection External link, opens in new window.
  The University of Michigan Library’s collection featuring music composed by 700 women composers.

Audio engineering

• DAFX paper archive External link, opens in new window.
  Georgia Tech Library's collection of conference papers.
• NIME External link, opens in new window.
  NIME – New Interfaces for Musical Expression, is an archive of conference papers on innovative musical interfaces.

Theatre

• DramaDirekt External link, opens in new window.
  In DramaDirect's catalog, you will find both Swedish and international drama. You can search by author, play title, or keywords. Available in Swedish.
• Dramawebben External link, opens in new window.
  Dramawebben, part of the Literature Bank, offers free access to Swedish drama. Available in Swedish.
• The scene database External link, opens in new window.
  Here, you can search for information about theater productions, actors, and producers, among other topics.