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American Memory (Library of Congress)
Digitized collections of primary source materials at the Library of Congress on American history and culture...  [more info]
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American Song (Alexander Street Press)
Interface change coming soon! Click here for more information. American Song is a history database with music from America's past.  [more info]
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AP Images (Accuweather/AP)
Image database containing the Associated Press' current year's photo report and a selection of images dating from the 1500s. Also includes charts, graphs, tables, and maps.  [more info]
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ccMixter
ccmixter is devoted to helping you find music, which is liberally licensed under a Creative Commons license so you already have permission to use this music in your video, podcast, school project, personal music player, or where ever…  [more info]
Internet
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Classical Music Library (Alexander Street Press)
Interface change coming soon! Click here for more information. A collection of classical music recordings searchable by composer, artist, conductor, instrument, genre, or period.  [more info]
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Contemporary World Music (Alexander Street Press)
Interface change coming soon! Click here for more information. Contemporary World Music is a vast collection of 50,000 music tracks.  [more info]
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DRAM Online (DRAM / New World Records)
On-demand streaming access to CD-quality audio.  DRAM contains over 2,300 albums worth of recordings from a distinctive set of 15 independent labels.  [more info]
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Factiva (Dow Jones)
Gateway to business resources including full text periodicals, news photographs, company reports, and financial data.  [more info]
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Free Music Archive (FMA)
Free Music Archive provides a library of legal audio downloads.  [more info]
Internet
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Free-Loops.com
Free-Loops.com is a one-stop-shop for free loops and audio clip downloads covered by Creative Commons.  [more info]
Internet
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Freesound Project
Freesound is a database of Creative Commons licensed sounds and focusses only on sound, not songs.  [more info]
Internet
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Funky Remixes
Funky Remixes allows users to legally rip, remix, and share music for free.  This site features hip hop, rap, rock, and electronic styled remixes.  Copyright covered by Creative Commons.  [more info]
Internet
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Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online (Alexander Street Press)
Full-text encyclopedia articles about music traditions, genres, practices, and performances in world regions...  [more info]
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Greg Smith Sound Effects Collection (American University)
The Greg Smith Sound Effects Collection contains over 1450 sound effects tracks recorded by Greg Smith.  The collection is hosted by University Library at American University.  
*Note: the tracks are in a zipped mp3 format.  Once you download the zip file to your computer, you will need to un-zip them.  Please see the recommended programs on the Greg Smith Collection website.  [more info]
Internet
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Grove Music Online (Oxford University Press)
Several encyclopedias-in-one with articles and cross references covering music and musicians worldwide...  [more info]
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Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is a non-profit website offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. The Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages.  [more info]
Internet
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Jamendo
Jamendo is a source for free and legal music downloads covered by Creative Commons licenses.  [more info]
Internet
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Jazz Music Online (Alexander Street Press)
Interface change coming soon! Click here for more information. Jazz Music Library is very comprehensive with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres...  [more info]
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Music Online (Alexander Street Press)
Interface change coming soon! Click here for more information. Music Online is a single cross-searchable platform that includes all of the Alexander Street Press music products to which JMU subscribes.  [more info]
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National Jukebox (Library of Congress)
National Jukebox contains over 10,000 historical sound recordings from the Library of Congress music collections.  These recordings have been made freely available in streaming format with permission from Sony Music Entertainment.  Sound content includes popular music, dance music, opera, jazz, speeches, poetry and humor.  [more info]
Internet
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Naxos Jazz (Naxos)
Naxos Music Library Jazz offers a mixed selection of jazz legends and contemporary jazz in streaming audio format.  [more info]
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Naxos Music Library (Naxos)
Streaming classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music...  [more info]
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OAIster (OCLC / Firstsearch)
OAIster contains thousands of multidisciplinary resources from more than 1,000 contributors worldwide.  [more info]
Internet
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Online Sound Recordings at the Library of Congress (Library of Congress)
Recordings from the American Memory project from folk music to oral history interviews.  [more info]
Internet
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Opera in Video (Alexander Street Press)
Interface change coming soon! Click here for more information. Opera in Video contains 250 of the most important opera performances.  [more info]
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Public Domain Information Project (PD Info)
PD Info provides sheet music and lyrics published in 1922 or earlier.  Also contains royalty free music tracks.  Fees for sheet music and tracks will not be paid for by JMU Libraries.  [more info]
Internet
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Quick Search
Please see JMU Libraries' Quick Search.  [more info]
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Smithsonian Global Sound (Alexander Street Press)
Interface change coming soon! Click here for more information. The world's musical and aural traditions, in streaming audio...  [more info]
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SoundClick
SoundClick is part of the free music community and features signed and unsigned bands.  [more info]
Internet
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Theatre in Video (Alexander Street Press)
Interface change coming soon! Click here for more information. Theatre in Video contains more than 250 of the world’s most important plays...  [more info]
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WorldCat (OCLC / Firstsearch)
Catalog of over 62 million titles cataloged by libraries worldwide ...  [more info]
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