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

Some of the databases below work only in the Metropolia network.
They are available for students and staff via the proxy links below.


Reference books online:

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] 

Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy

Electronic journals and article databases

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.

Recordings (streaming, limited user amount)

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 recordings

Smithsonian 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

Viola - 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

Dictionaries

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

Finnish theses and final works online

Metropolia jazzmusic theses

Old (pre-2009) Stadia jazzmusic theses

Finnish university theses on music

Sibelius-Academy theses online (E-Thesis)

Jyväskylä University Musicology theses