1. About the Database

With Music Online, Alexander Street Press aims to provide the most comprehensive database in streaming audio, video, reference, and scores on the web. Music Online allows users cross search all of the music databases published by Alexander Street Press. Music Online brings together on a single cross-searchable platform the entire suite of Alexander Street Press music products that your institution subscribes to. Music Online can potentially cross-search any combination of these databases:

• African American Music Reference
• American Song
• Classical Music Library
• Classical Music Reference Library
• Classical Scores Library
• Contemporary World Music
• Dance in Video
• The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
• Jazz Music Library
• Opera in Video

Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries will be added to this cross-search platform in the fall of 2009. When complete, Music Online will offer more than 400,000 audio tracks, 400,000 scores, 100,000 pages of music reference, and over 500 hours of video. Every object in the collection is indexed for subjects, historical events, genres, people, cultural groups, places, time periods, ensembles. As a result, students and scholars can combine keyword and fielded search capabilities to frame creative and highly targeted queries. Users can also select to view a single database by using the dropdown menu at the bottom of the homepage of Music Online.

2. Subscription and Free Trial Information

For information on how to gain access to databases in this list that you don’t see in the homepage dropdown menu, please contact us at sales@alexanderstreet.com. Academic institutions and public libraries are encouraged to request a free 30-day trial of this landmark resource.

3. Advisory Board

We work with a diverse group of music librarians who make up our Music Library Advisory Board to vet content and publisher suggestions, as well as gain feedback on our interfaces and functionality.

4. Technical Support

You can contact us by:

• email at support@astreetpress.com
• telephone toll-free on 1-800-889-5937

When reporting a problem please include your customer name, e-mail address, phone number, domain name or IP address and that of your web proxy server if used.

5. Acknowledgements

The development of Music Online was made possible through the contributions of the following individuals:

• Christina Chamberlain
• Paul Dixon
• Liz Dutton
• Andrea Eastman-Mullins
• John Field
• Greg Knapp
• Joanna Koslowsky
• Tim Lloyd
• Ziep Truong
• David Vaughn
• Mike Wathen