Library collections
Arsca
Our library collection is catalogued to the ARSCA -database.
You can use our collection marker Metpo in "builder search" to limit the search.
Helmet - Helsinki City Library
Over 40 libraries with a shared collection. Music books and DVD's, sheet music. You can order the materials to your local branch library from the site.
Helka - Helsinki University Library Collection
Linda - university libraries in FInland.
Finnish university libraries, musicology collections. Theses on music.
Frank - provincial and special libraries and collections
KVK - global search of national libraries
Oxford music online - music dictionaries [proxy use]
Grove dictionary of music
Oxford companion to music
Oxford dictionary of music
Encyclopaedia Britannica [proxy use]
African American Music Reference [proxy use]
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online [proxy use]
Classical Music Reference Library [proxy use]Electronic journals and article databases
Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy
Full text journals - list of the full text magazines available from the IIMP
IIMP (International Index of Music Periodicals) [proxy use]
Full text articles from music magazines.
EBSCO Academic Search Elite [proxy use]
Arto - article references on finnish journals [proxy use]
RILM (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale)
international reference database on music journals [proxy use]
Gramophone -magazine - complete full text archive
DOAJ - Directory of open access journals
Google Books full access magazines
With article search. e.g. Guitar World (2007-).
PressDisplay [proxy]
Fresh newspapers in 39 languages, over 1000 magazines.
Jazz music library [proxy]
About 3000 jazz records in streaming format.
Classical Music Library [proxy use]
Music from 34 record companies (including EMI Classics, Hyperion etc.)Contemporary World Music [proxy use]
Music cultures on recordingsSmithsonian Global Sound for Libraries [proxy use]
Records of the Smithsonian Institute Folkways -label. Music, speech- and literature records. Focus on the different cultures on the American continent. Also folk music from around the world.African American song [proxy use]
Afroamerican recordings, 16 000 tracks. Jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk. Also includes interviews.American Song [proxy use]
Records depicting the history of United States. Song tradition of indians, immigrants, slaves and cowboys. Also songs from the Civil War and political songs to the 21st century.Naxos Music Library - [Helsinki City Library Collection]
Functions with Helmet -user identification
28 800 records = 411 000 tracks of classical music.
National jukebox
Over 10.000 gramophone "sides" from the US, 1900-1925.
Sheet music:
Classical Scores Library [etäkäyttö]
Boosey & Hawkes -publications, University Music Editions -microfilms etc.
IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library
Copyright-free classical music scores
Hal Crook playalongs
Other databases and search engines
DictionariesViola - Finnish national discography
ERIC - a large pedagogic article database
CAIRSS - music pedagogical articles reference
ScienceDirect - scientific articles [proxy]
IIPA - Full text articles on theatre, film and dance [proxy use]
Raita - Old finnish records digitized in the National Library network.
Google Books - search books on different topics and browse their content online
Wolfram Alpha - computational search engine
Twazzup - realtime tweet search
MOT - dictionary [proxy use]
Languages: english, german, french, swedish, italian, russian, finnish (!), danish, spanish
Google Translate
Translate webpages, documents or text. Finnish included..!
Merriam-Webster Online
Online Etymology Dictionary
Wordnik
Metropolia jazzmusic thesesOld (pre-2009) Stadia jazzmusic thesesFinnish university theses on music
Sibelius-Academy theses online (E-Thesis)