This page includes Thomas’ resources that he uses online for research purposes. The links are also available to you. Please note that resources marked with * require user access, such as library cards, university IDs, or access through research institutions, etc. Luckily, some resources are also publicly accessible (OA = Open Access).
Some resources are still missing, and the page will be updated occasionally to possibly make your work on your projects a little easier.
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Music & Musicology
- Library of the State Institute for Music Research in Berlin: https://opac.sim.spk-berlin.de *
- TCM Tokyo College of Music Library https://www.tokyo-ondai-lib.jp/en *
- Fachinformationsdienst Musikwissenschaft (Germany) https://www.musiconn.de/
- Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics Music Journals and Databases https://www.aesthetics.mpg.de/en/library/digital-resources/music-journals-and-databases.html
Journals
- Empirical Musicology Review (EMR, Ohio State University, USA) https://emusicology.org/index.php/EMR/ (OA)
- Current Musicology (Columbia University, USA) https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/currentmusicology/ (OA)
- Musicology Today (Sciendo/University of Warsaw, Poland) https://sciendo.com/journal/muso (OA)
- Psychology of Music (Society for Education, Music, and Psychology Research) https://journals.sagepub.com/home/pom
- Analytical Approaches to World Music (International Foundation for the Theory and Analysis of World Musics, USA) https://journal.iftawm.org/ (OA)
- Approaches: Music Therapy & Special Music Education (Greek Association of Primary Music Education Teachers, Greece) https://journals.qmu.ac.uk/approaches (OA)
- ResearchGate publications list related to musicology https://www.researchgate.net/topic/Musicology/publications
Interconnections / General Libraries
- CiNii Research information of research activities, dissertations, books and journals held by university libraries in Japan, japanese https://cir.nii.ac.jp/ / english https://cir.nii.ac.jp/?lang=en
- NIH National Library of Medicine of the National Center for Biotechnology Information https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- ERIHPLUS European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences https://kanalregister.hkdir.no/publiseringskanaler/erihplus/
- PLOS Public Library of Science https://plos.org/ (OA) // List of PLOS Journals https://journals.plos.org/ (OA)
- Idunn Scandinavian University Press https://www.idunn.no/
- Browzine Library https://browzine.com/
- Cambridge University Cambridge Core https://www.cambridge.org/core *
- ROSE Repository of Open access Scholarly E-collections Ibaraki University https://rose-ibadai.repo.nii.ac.jp (japanese and english) (OA)
- Hiroshima University International Repository https://ir.lib.hiroshima-u.ac.jp
- University of Tokyo Library System https://www.lib.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en * // on Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/utokyo-general
- Waseda University Library Tokyo https://www.waseda.jp/library/en *
- ResearchGate https://researchgate.net/ / https://www.researchgate.net/search
- JSTOR New York https://www.jstor.org / OA and free https://about.jstor.org/oa-and-free
- Aichi Prefectural Library japanese https://www.aichi-pref-library.jp/ | english https://websv.aichi-pref-library.jp/eng/e_index.html (Japan)
- VMB – Virtuelle Medizinische Bibliothek der autonomen Provinz Bozen-Südtirol https://www.bmv.bz.it/de/ (italian/german, Italy)
- Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/ (Germany)
- Digitale Landesbibliothek Berlin https://digital.zlb.de/ (Germany)
- Université Du Luxembourg Luxembourg Lerning Centre Library https://www.uni.lu/llc-en/
- Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) https://academic.oup.com/
- Taylor & Francis Online https://www.tandfonline.com/
- IEEE Explore https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/home.jsp
- Science Open research and publishing network https://www.scienceopen.com/
- Scientific Research Publishing https://www.scirp.org/
- ScienceDirect https://www.sciencedirect.com/
- REDIB Platform for open-access scientific and academic content produced in the Ibero-American space https://www.redib.org/?lng=en (OA)
- MIAR Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals https://miar.ub.edu/
Journals
- DOAJ – Directory of Open Access Journals https://www.doaj.org/ (OA)
- Springer Open – Directory of Springer’s Open Access Journals https://www.springeropen.com/ (OA)
- KVH Journal (Kassenärztliche Vereinigung Hamburg, Germany) https://journal.kvhh.net/
- JCI Journal of Clinical Investigation (American Society for Clinical Investigation) https://www.jci.org/
General Resources
- Deutscher Bildungsserver https://www.bildungsserver.de/ (Germany)
- German Education Server https://www.eduserver.de/ (Germany)
- Archivportal-D https://www.archivportal-d.de/ (Germany)
- Retraction Watch covers retractions of scientific papers and related issues https://retractionwatch.com/
- Arolsen Archives International Center on Nazi Persecution https://arolsen-archives.org/
- FDS Fischer | Data Science Media & PR database https://www.fischer-data-science.com/
- EduRank ranking of worlds best universities (more than 14.000, based on region, country, topics etc.) https://edurank.org/
Search Engines
- SearXNG privacy friendly metasearch engine https://search.gruenelin.de/ **
- GrüneLinde independent search engine (focused on arts and science, powered by the YaCy engine) https://gruenelin.de/ **
- Copyscape find stolen content, copies, and plagiarisms https://www.copyscape.com/
** Resources that are owned by Thomas Alexander Kolbe (driven and hosted on own servers in Germany, in compliance with EU data protection laws)