Free Resources

This resource contains hundreds of thousands of recordings, some of which may not be available on other popular streaming sites. There are also documentaries and videos on this site, which are excellent sources of primary resources.

This resource is great for finding academic journal articles about music. Several journals cover popular music in addition to older musical styles.

This is the best alternative to Wikipedia. You can find encyclopedic information, which can fill in the blanks better that Wikipedia, since these were written by scholars.

Search the world's most comprehensive index of full-text books.

Google Scholar is a free web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.

WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services. WorldCat libraries are dedicated to providing access to their resources on the Web, where most people start their search for information.