Research Resources

This page compiles research resources I use regularly. Below is an explanation of the access types:

Access Types

• 🟢 Open Access (OA): Freely accessible to everyone.
• 🔒 Restricted Access: Requires library cards, university credentials, or institutional access.
• 🌐 Mixed Access: Some content is freely available, while other sections require special access.

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Music & Musicology

Libraries

• 🔒 Library of the State Institute for Music Research, Berlin (Germany)
• 🔒 TCM Tokyo College of Music Library (Japan)
• 🔒 Royal College of Music Library (UK)
• 🔒 Royal Academy of Music Library (UK)

Databases & Specialist Portals

• 🟢 Fachinformationsdienst Musikwissenschaft (Germany)
• 🌐 Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics Music Resources (Germany)
• 🟢 RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text (Global; access varies)
• 🟢 DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals (UK)

Journals

• 🟢 Empirical Musicology Review (USA)
• 🟢 Current Musicology (USA)
• 🟢 Musicology Today (Poland)
• 🔒 Psychology of Music (UK)
• 🟢 Analytical Approaches to World Music (OA) (USA)
• 🟢 Approaches: Music Therapy & Special Music Education (OA) (Greece)
• 🌐 ResearchGate – Musicology Publications (Global)

Interdisciplinary Research

University Libraries

• 🔒 University of Tokyo Library System (*, Japan) (Internet Archive Backup)
• 🔒 Waseda University Library, Tokyo (*, Japan)
• 🌐 Hiroshima University International Repository (Japan)
• 🟢 Université Du Luxembourg Learning Centre Library (Luxembourg)

Scientific Platforms & General Libraries

• 🌐 CiNii Research (Japan)
• 🟢 NIH National Library of Medicine (USA)
• 🌐 ERIHPLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences) (Norway)
• 🟢 PLOS – Public Library of Science (List of PLOS Journals) (USA)
• 🌐 Idunn – Scandinavian University Press (Norway)
• 🟢 Aichi Prefectural Library (Japan)
• 🌐 Browzine Library (USA)
• 🔒 Cambridge Core (Cambridge University) (*, UK)
• 🟢 ROSE Repository – Open Access Scholarly Collections (Japan)
• 🟢 Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (Germany)
• 🟢 Digitale Landesbibliothek Berlin (Germany)
• 🌐 JSTOR (Open Access Section) (USA)
• 🌐 VMB – Virtuelle Medizinische Bibliothek Südtirol (Italy)
• 🟢 Europeana – Digital Library of Cultural Heritage (EU)

Open Access Publishing & Indexes

• 🟢 Science Open (Germany)
• 🌐 Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP) (China/USA)
• 🔒 ScienceDirect (Netherlands)
• 🌐 REDIB – Open Access Content in Ibero-American Space (Spain)
• 🌐 MIAR – Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals (currently not available) (Spain)

New Additions & Suggestions

• 🌐 CORE – Open Access Research Papers (UK)
• 🟢 OpenAIRE – European Open Access Research (EU)

Search Tools & Specialized Engines

• 🟢 SearXNG – Privacy-Friendly Metasearch Engine (Germany, on servers owned by Thomas)
• 🟢 BASE – Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (Germany)
• 🌐 CiteSeerX Search Engine for scientific documents, journals, and papers (USA)
• 🌐 Copyscape – Plagiarism Finder (USA)
• 🟢 SNAC discovery service for persons, families, and organizations found within archival collections at cultural heritage institutions (USA)