For students and employees

The AMKP library provides access to licensed electronic sources for the entire academic community. These are:

• Oxford Music Online – a package of electronic publications of an encyclopedic nature. Includes: Grove Music Online, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, The Oxford Companion to Music.
• JSTOR – a digital platform providing access to foreign scientific magazines. The license covers music magazines.
• Naxos Music Library – a collection currently comprising over 100,000 CDs from various record companies, including: ARC, Berlin Classics, BIS, Capriccio, Chandos, EMI Classics, Erato, Finlandia, Hänssler Classic, Harmonia Mundi, Hungaroton, Naïve, Naxos, Nonesuch, Nimbus, Ondine, RCA Records, Sony Classical, Teldec, Virgin Classics and Warner Classics.
  Here you can listen not only to classical music, but also to contemporary jazz, blues, pop music and classic rock. The recordings are usually accompanied by a text file with a description. In addition, the website includes i.a. biographical notes of many composers and performers and a dictionary of musical terms. Always LOG OUT after using the Naxos databases!
• RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text– a database featuring content from over 45 countries and published from the early 20th century to the present. Most coverage commences with the first issue of the journal and includes cover-to-cover full text for every included title. In addition to scholarly articles and reviews, the database includes obituaries, editorials, correspondence, advertisements, news items, and more. More information at: RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text

How to use e-resources?

You can use e-resources in the Reading Room and on devices connected to the university Ethernet or Wi-Fi network without logging in.

AMKP employees, students and doctoral students, interested in remote access to the above-mentioned databases, please send a message titled ONLINE ACCESS to the address biblioteka@amuz.krakow.pl in order to receive instructions on how to proceed.

Links to e-resources can be found at the bottom of each tab on the Library’s website.

Resources available to general public

Recommended internet sources:

IMSLP Petrucci Music Library – International Music Score Library Project is the most popular database containing scans of sheet music (most of which are available in the public domain, i.e. for free use) and recordings.

RISM – Répertoire International des Sources Musicales documents musical sources from around the world, including manuscripts, printed music, and librettos and texts about music.

CPDL – Choral Public Domain Library

Ninateka – Ninateka provides access to audio and video files, including documentaries, feature films, reportages, animations, experimental films, recordings of theater and opera performances, recordings of concerts, reports documenting cultural and social life and radio broadcasts. Access to most of the materials is free and does not require logging in. All content is completely ad-free.

British Library Sounds – British Library Sounds allow you to listen to audio recordings from the British Library’s vast, unique collection. Collections from around the world are divided into categories, such as classical music, popular music, traditional music, art, literature and theater, sounds of nature and the environment.

BazHum – a bibliographic database of the content of Polish academic journals in the field of humanities and social sciences.

Online magazines

“Wychowanie Muzyczne”

“Glissando”

“Pismo De Musica”

“Piosenka – Rocznik kulturalny”

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