Complete electronic resources A-Z

Access: 

Students and employees of the ABPU can access the products (links below) of our digital library both on and off the campus. At present it is only necessary to register (bruckneronline-login-data) if you are carrying out your research from outside the campus. You will not be required to log in until you have selected an electronic resource (there is no central access link).

All e-resources marked with this symbol are Open Access resources. You do not require a log-in to open them. 

  • ANNO Historische Zeitungen und Zeitschriften
  • Archiv der Stimmen 
    Historical sound recordings of SLUB-Dresden
  • Artistic research: open access literature 
  • BabelScores - contemporary music online
    Here you can read thousands of recent music scores and listen to their recordings.
  • Bach digital  
    The portal Bach digital offers access to a digital library with complete scans of works from a databank of hand-written sources with compositions of the Bach family/catalogues of the Bach family.
  • Berlin Philharmonic - Digital Concert Hall
    Personal registration must be made from the campus of the Anton Bruckner Private University. Then you will have access to all contents of the Digital Concert Hall both on campus and off.
  • Brockhaus information and encyclopedia service
    Brockhaus online
  • Bruckner-online 
    bruckner-online.at is a voluminous Anton Bruckner internet portal (Webarchive) which contains - alongside the electronic documentation of  manuscript sources - compositions and details of relevant persons and places. In addition complete digital versions of all manuscripts, first editions and past complete editions are available. 
  • Cambridge Companions to Music
    This collection contains English-language full-text books on musicians and musical themes. 
  • Dance in Video 
    Contains dance productions and documentation from the most influential artists and dance companies of the 20th century. The selection covers ballet, tap-dancing, jazz, contemporary, experimental and improvised dance, as well as precursors of modern concert dance.
  • DBIS-databank information system
    Offers access to numerous academic online databanks covering every special subject. Among others, the databank RISM (international lexicon of musical sources) is accessible via DBIS.
  • EBSCO-e-book-collection
    Currently access to 7 e-books: Das deutsche Musikleben, Deutsches Aussprachewörterbuch, Die Grenzgänge des Johann Sebastian Bach, Handbuch der Kinderchorleitung, Kunst und Revolution, Musikgeschichte als Geschichte der musikalischen Formwandlungen, Musikwissenschaftliches Arbeiten, Neue Musik
  • EZB 
    The "Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek" (Electronic Journals Library) is a platform for the effective usage and clear presentation of academic full-text periodicals and journals in the internet.
  • Grove (Oxford Music Online)
    The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is the most important English-language music encyclopedia.
  • The Handel complete edition by  Chrysander 
    To this day the most extensive complete edition of Handel's works.
  • International Journal of Community Music
    The International Journal of Community Music publishes research articles, practical discussions, timely reviews, readers' notes and special issues concerning all aspects of Community Music.. Full text-Access: Vol.10.2017-Vol.12.2019 und ab Vol.16.2023
  • International Music Score Library Project (Petrucci Music Library) 
    A virtual library of scores and collections of music in the public domain.
  • JSTOR 
    E-Journal-Collections with fulltext access: Arts and Sciences 3, 8 and music collection
    Kulturelle Bildung Online 
  • A knowledge platform with numerous professional articles on cultural education topics, artistic practices, theoretical foundations and research. 
  • MGG online 
    The digital edition of the music encyclopedia Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart with over 19,000 entries.
  • Music Online: Classical Scores Library 
    This music databank from the Alexander Street Press offers you thousands of copyrighted editions to download and print out, with special emphasis on 20th century music.
  • Musikland-Niedersachsen
    Open access materials to "Improvisation zu Gast im Klassenzimmer"
  • Musiconn
    A comprehensive research tool for finding research literature and materials on musicology is thus at your disposal.
  • National Jukebox 
    Historical audio recordings from the Library of Congress
  • NAXOS Music Library Classic 
    The audio-streaming portal for classical music (around 1.4 Mio. tracks from over 97,000 CDs)
  • Neue Mozart Edition: digitalised version 
    Contains the musical text and critical reports of the New Mozart Edition.
  • Open Dissertations 
    A database by EBSCO and BiblioLabs including more than 800.000 free electronic theses and dissertations (mainly in English)
    PLEASE NOTE: access may be restricted to the abstract only, not to the full text of a thesis
  • Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon online (oeml) 
    The essential reference work on music and musical life in Austria in all its facets
  • Oxford Handbooks Online Music
    Access to all e-books since 2021. These handbooks have been written by recognized scholars, each introducing a sub-discipline of the field of music.
  • plainsightSOUND
    A music research project, aimed at rediscovering colonial and postcolonial voices in British classical music.
  • ProQuest
    The ProQuest platform hosts multidisciplinary content containing scholarly journals, books, video & audio, dissertations & theses, newspapers and more.
  • Research Catalogue - an international database for artistic research
  • RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text 
    Articles from over 200 musicological journals in full text, plus around 1 million bibliographical certificates.
  • RISM (Répertoire International des Sources Musicales)
    Around 700,000 entries on researching musical sources (above all historical manuscript music before 1800)
  • University Press Scholarship Online
    By selecting "Book" in the menu bar on the left, over 900 music-related books from Oxford Academic are displayed in full text. The books are in English, and the collection is constantly being expanded, now also including all e-books from the "Oxford Handbooks Online Music" series since 2021.