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• RISM. Series A/II. Music manuscripts after 1600 (EBSCO)
  
  "an international, annotated bibliography, which aims to document the world's musical sources of manuscripts ... produced after 1600 ... found in over 750 libraries and archives in 31 countries."--EBSCO description. Usage info: Licensed for one simultaneous user. ... []
• Dissertations and theses, full text
  
  Coverage: 1861- (Indexing); 1980- (Abstracting dissertations), 1988- (Abstracting theses), 1997- (Full-text dissertations, where available)
  Provides information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses, with subject, title, and author access to almost all American dissertations accepted at an accredited institution since 1861. Offers full text for most dissertations (Notre Dame and other) added since 1997. Access info: Access to full text (PDF) of Notre Dame dissertations since 1997, restricted to users with valid Notre Dame NetIDs. ... []

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• Beethoven Bibliography Database (see Ira C. Brillant Center for Beethoven Studies)
  
  The Ira C. Brillant Center for Beethoven Studies at San Jose State University (California) has the largest and most comprehensive collection of materials about Beethoven in the Western hemisphere. This database is a catalog of books, articles, reviews, recordings, scores, and other materials about Beethoven and his music and is easily accessible to all. ... []
• Beethoven-Haus Collection
  
  A guide to the complete collection of books, scores, manuscripts, artifacts, etc. at the Beethoven-Haus in Berlin.
• Dissertation abstracts online (see Dissertations and theses)
  
• Dissertations and theses, full text
  
  Coverage: 1861- (Indexing); 1980- (Abstracting dissertations), 1988- (Abstracting theses), 1997- (Full-text dissertations, where available)
  Provides information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses, with subject, title, and author access to almost all American dissertations accepted at an accredited institution since 1861. Offers full text for most dissertations (Notre Dame and other) added since 1997. Access info: Access to full text (PDF) of Notre Dame dissertations since 1997, restricted to users with valid Notre Dame NetIDs. ... []
• HathiTrust Digital Library
  
  A digital repository for the nation's great research libraries that brings together the immense collections of its partner institutions. It was initially conceived as a collaboration of the thirteen universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the University of California system, and the University of Virginia to establish a repository for those universities to archive and share their digitized collections, and quickly expanded to include additional partners with fast growing treasure of digitized collections. ... []
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• International directory of contemporary music. Instrumentation.
  
  Call Number: HESB MUS ML 118 .I45
  Coverage: 1996/1997
  Includes complete lists of works by composers who have joined the Contemporary Music International Information Service arranged by medium of performance. ... []
• Ira C. Brillant Center for Beethoven Studies
  
  The Ira C. Brillant Center for Beethoven Studies at San Jose State University (California) has the largest and most comprehensive collection of materials about Beethoven in the Western hemisphere. This database is a catalog of books, articles, reviews, recordings, scores, and other materials about Beethoven and his music and is easily accessible to all. ... []
• Library of Congress music catalog (EBSCO)
  
  Coverage: 1960-
  Searchable database of "... annotated bibliographic records created or edited by the Library of Congress for printed and manuscript music and for music and non-music sound recordings in all languages ... including musical scores, monographs, books, serials, [and] audiovisual materials on music ..."--About the database. ... []
• RISM. Series A/II. Music manuscripts after 1600 (EBSCO)
  
  "an international, annotated bibliography, which aims to document the world's musical sources of manuscripts ... produced after 1600 ... found in over 750 libraries and archives in 31 countries."--EBSCO description. Usage info: Licensed for one simultaneous user. ... []