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Biography Reference Bank This link opens in a new window
Contains biographical full text articles, page images and abstracts from today’s leading magazines and journals—providing the most current coverage of an individual’s life and work.
Biography Reference Source This link opens in a new window
A collection of more than 461,000 full-text biographies. Find biographies of interest by searching or browsing 30+ genre categories, including actors, authors, composers, explorers, figures relevant to U.S. & world history, inventors, musicians, Presidents of the United States, current world leaders and many others.
Cambridge Histories This link opens in a new window
ebooks in history, literature, music, philosophy, religion, theatre, and other areas of the humanities.
http://universitypublishingonline.org/cambridge/histories/

Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
Includes The Encylopedia of Popular Music, Grove Music Online, Oxford Companion to Music and Oxford Dictionary of Music.
Oxford Scholarship Online This link opens in a new window
Access 16,000+ academic works from Oxford University Press, covering subjects across the humanities, social sciences, sciences, medicine, and law.

Find Journal Articles

Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Features thousands of full-text articles and covers a broad range of topics including music and entertainment.
America History & Life This link opens in a new window
Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
Education Source This link opens in a new window
Full text resource covers scholarly research and information for education students, professionals and policy makers. Includes the largest and most complete collection of full-text education journals. Includes international English-language periodicals, monographs, yearbooks and more. Covers all levels of education—from early childhood to higher education—including all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education and testing.
ERIC ( Education Resources Information Center ) This link opens in a new window
ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index; journal articles, books, research syntheses, conference reports, technical reports, policy papers, and other education-related materials.
JSTOR Journal Archive This link opens in a new window
A full-text archive of over 1,000 of the best scholarly journals in the social sciences, humanities, mathematics, life sciences, etc. Full-text is available from the first issue, but does not include the most recent 2-5 years.
Music Index This link opens in a new window
Music Index is a comprehensive guide to music periodicals. It is especially useful for finding academic journal articles. Includes both full-text materials and links to items that can be requested from other libraries.
PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new window
Contains the full-text of 51 journals published by the APA and allied organizations since 1987. NOTE: You will find more results by searching PsycINFO. Everything in PsycARTICLES is included in the more extensive PsycINFO database.

Find Online Music Education Resources

Choral Wiki
Free choral/vocal scores, texts, translations, and other useful information
Edutopia
Evidence-based K-12 learning strategies.
Kodaly Center -- The American Folk Song Collection
The Kodály Center offers training and resources for teachers, conductors, parents, and others interested in the musical development of children. Search for children's songs by origin, region, state, song type and more.

MERLOT This link opens in a new window
A free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education
Links to online learning materials are collected here along with assignments and comments to enhance the teaching experience of an exercise

National Jukebox
The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center and other contributing libraries and archives. Recordings in the Jukebox were issued on record labels now owned by Sony Music Entertainment, which has granted the Library of Congress a gratis license to stream acoustical recordings.

OER Commons: Open Textbooks This link opens in a new window
This catalog contains hundreds of college-level open textbooks from higher education institutions around the world.
Internet Archive: OERs This link opens in a new window
Provided by the Internet Archive library, hundreds of free courses, video lectures, and supplemental materials from universities in the United States and China. Many of these lectures are available for download.

Pennsylvania Music Educators Association/ NAfMe Website
Especially useful are the Resources and Specialty Areas links in the top horizontal menu bar. Includes links to PA Music Standards and National Music Standards plus articles reflecting current issues, new research, and best practices in music education.
Project Zero Thinking Routines Toolbox
Project Zero Thinking Routines support student learning and thinking across age groups, disciplines, ideals, competencies, and populations.
Smithsonian Folkways
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings is the nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian Institution, dedicated to supporting cultural diversity and increased understanding among peoples through the documentation, preservation, and dissemination of sound. Check here for sound recording excerpts and teaching tools.

Subject Librarian

Tatiana Pashkova-Balkenhol

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717-871-4078

Subjects: Music, Social Work, Statistics

Find Books, E-Books, & Video

Millersville University Library Catalog This link opens in a new window
Search for printed and electronic books in our library catalog!
EBSCOHost ebooks This link opens in a new window
Over 20,000 fully accessible books on topics ranging from acting to zoology and everything in between!