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 *
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)
- 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
- NIH National Library of Medicine of the National Center for Biotechnology Information https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- 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
- 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/
Journals
- DOAJ – Directory of Open Access Journals https://www.doaj.org/ (OA)
- KVH Journal (Kassenärztliche Vereinigung Hamburg, Germany) https://journal.kvhh.net/
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)
- Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.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/
Search Engines
- SearXNG privacy friendly metasearch engine https://search.gruenelin.de/ **
- YaCy distributed independent search engine https://seana.gruenelin.de/ **
- Copyscape find stolen content, copies, and plagiarisms on the internet https://www.copyscape.com/
** Resources that are owned by Thomas Alexander Kolbe (hosted on own servers in Germany, in compliance with EU data protection laws)