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)
  A multidisciplinary research database.
  
• Web of Science (LTU)
  Multidisciplinary reference and citation database containing scientific articles and conference proceedings. Allows you to search and perform analyses based on cited publications.
• Scopus (LTU)
  A reference database that provides abstracts and citations for scholarly articles. It covers subjects in science, engineering, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities.
  
• JSTOR (LTU)
  Full-text archive of scientific journals in many subject areas. The most recent years are usually not available.
  

Databases in music

• IPA Source: IPA Transcriptions and Literal Translations of Songs and Arias (LTU)
  Transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and literal translations of opera arias and art song lyrics.
  
• Oxford Grove Music Online (LTU)
  Encyclopedia of music and musicology with peer-reviewed articles about composers, artists, conductors, instruments, genres, individual works and more.
  

Databases in audio technology

• AES E-Library (LTU)
  Materials on audio technology. Accessible through the university network or VPN.
  
• ACM Digital Library (LTU)
  Materials related to computer science.
  

Journals in arts

• DOAJ, Directory of Open Access Journals
  Open access, peer-reviewed scientific journals in various subject areas.
  
• Journals
  Search among the University Library's journals within your subject area.

Links in arts

Vocal music

• Choral Public Domain Library – Sheet Music
  A collection of over 12,000 choral sheet music pieces.
• Musica International
  A digital library for choral music.
• Song And Tune Catalogue
  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
  Chords, tablature and rhythms for guitar.
• Munich Digitisation Center
  Freely available sheet music and manuscripts.

Orchestra

• The Roman Collection
  Works by Johan Helmich Roman, available in Swedish.
  

Various links in music

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

Audio engineering

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

Theatre

• DramaDirekt
  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
  Dramawebben, part of the Literature Bank, offers free access to Swedish drama. Available in Swedish.
• The scene database
  Here, you can search for information about theater productions, actors, and producers, among other topics.