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Academic OneFile

Available within MMU (no login required) and outside MMU (login required)

Subject coverage: Arts, humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Includes academic journals, magazines and newspapers (including the Financial Times and the New York Times)
Date range: 1980-
Updated: Daily
Data retrieved: Abstracts with some full text and images
Service provider: Cengage
Access notes: Full-text articles available in HTML
Off-campus users will be taken to the MMU login screen where you may login with your MMU network ID and password.

If you are off-campus and following a link to an individual journal title from Find it! or the library catalogue, please follow these instructions:

  • When asked to Select Authentication type, follow the link to Shibboleth Users Click here.
  • Follow the link to Login via your home institution.
  • Input your MMU network username and password in the login boxes.

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Arts On Film Archive

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Provides on-line video streaming of over 460 Art Council films on UK post-war art and documentary film-making since the 1950s. Features 20th Century British Art, architecture, film, theatre, poetry and dance. Artists featured include Bacon, Spencer, Hockney, Moore and the Young British Artist (YBA) group. Film makers like Anthony Minghella and Isaac Julien, were commissioned to make films for the collection. The films document particular art movements that have continued to influence contemporary British Art, such as Surrealism, Dadaism, Futurism and Kinetic art.

Please note: Due to copy right restrictions the Arts Council England films can only be streamed to ac.uk domain addresses.

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Dance Collection (New York Public Library)

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Subject coverage: The database covers all aspects of dance from performing art to ritual, from all cultures and countries. This database contains the same data as Dance on Disc, which was previously available from the Library's CD-ROM server.
Data retrieved: The complete catalogue of the New York Public Library Dance collection, the world's leading repository for materials on Dance. It contains approximately 398,000 records, in all media, including books and journal articles.
Service provider: New York Public Library
Access notes: The database can be accessed both on and off campus via the web. Using the web interface, it is possible to limit searches to journal articles and books. Here's how: If you search in the SUBJECT Dancing field, you will retrieve a list of relevant subject headings, with an indication of the number of references. If you then click on one of the Subjects, a series of red buttons will appear near the top of the search screen. This can take some time. Searches may be limited to BOOK/TEXT which retrieves both journal articles and books.

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Grove Music Online (part of Oxford Music Online)

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See Oxford Music Online (follow link above).

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International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) Proceedings

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Subject coverage: The International Computer Music Association (ICMA) based in San Francisco, USA, is an international affiliation of individuals and institutions involved in the technical, creative, and performance aspects of computer music. It serves composers, computer software and hardware developers, researchers, and musicians who are interested in the integration of music and technology. The International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) is the preeminent annual international gathering for computer music composers and researchers. The ICMC interweaves peer-reviewed paper presentations with concerts of new computer music, creating a vital synthesis of science, technology, and the art of music.
Date range: 1997-
Data retrieved: Peer-reviewed papers and studio reports presented at each International Computer Music Conference (ICMC)
Data provider: The International Computer Music Association (ICMA)

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International Index to the Performing Arts

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Subject coverage: All aspects of performing arts, from scholarly studies to snapshots of popular culture
Date range: 1998-
Data retrieved: References including an abstract and selected records contain corresponding full text of the original article
Service provider: ProQuest
Access notes: Available to MMU staff and students only. Off-campus users must login to view or download articles. If you are following a link to a journal from the library catalogue or Find It! service, you will be taken to the MMU Login page where you can input your MMU network username and password.

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Internet Archive

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"The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form and provides free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public."

The service consists of 4 separate collections:

  1. Moving Images (more than 100,000 movies)
  2. Live Music Archive (more than 45,000 concerts)
  3. Audio (more than 200,000 recordings)
  4. Texts (more than 350,000 books, pamphlets and other documents)

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Naxos Music Library

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Subject coverage: an online music resource with a database of over 130,000 tracks of music (over 8800 CDs) from over 20 record labels including Naxos, Dacapo, Gimell, BIS and Collegium which provide a streaming service in 128k CD quality. As well as this exhaustive catalogue of works, there are also additional webpages from text resources, composer and recording notes, and a Playlist function.
Service provider: Naxos
Access notes: There are limits to the numbers of people who can use this service at any one time. If you are denied access, it may be that the maximum number has been reached. Try again in 15 minutes or so.
A username and password which may be obtained from any MMU Library helpdesk is available for academic staff who wish to create and edit playlists for their students.
It is imperative that you read and adhere to the terms and conditions at the bottom of the Naxos Music Library web page.

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Oxford Music Online

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Subject coverage: Over 29,000 articles on all aspects of music from early to contemporary, including jazz, popular and world music
Updated: quarterly
Data retrieved: provides the full text version of the printed 'Grove Dictionary of Music' including illustrations and sound. Many hypertext links to related sites worldwide
Service provider: Macmillan Online Publishing

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Images

MMU Library Images subject page

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Links to general image resources.

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