Streaming Audio

A history database through music; formerly American Song. Streaming audio with songs by and about all Americans (immigrants, children, enslaved persons, etc.), and about all aspects of the American experience (civil rights, political campaigns, the Revolutionary War, etc.). Coverage: Precolonial period-present.

The L.A. Theatre Works Collection delivers, for the first time online, more than three hundred important dramatic works in streaming audio from the curated archive of the nations premiere radio theatre company. The plays - which include some of the most significant dramatic literature of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries - are performed by leading actors from around the world and recorded specifically for online listening.

Classical music, including vocal, choral, orchestral, chamber music, stage and screen, opera, and operettas. Includes recordings, program notes, composer biographies, and play lists by category. Coverage: Medieval to contemporary.

Provides access to over 250,000 streaming tracks of contemporary world music from over 169 countries and 800 labels from around the world.

Ethnographic Sound Archives Online brings together over 2,000 hours of previously unpublished historic field recordings from around the world, alongside their supporting field notes and ethnographers metadata, opening new paths for the study of music in its cultural context.

Delve into the cultural study of music and explore content from across the globe with this diverse and comprehensive collection. Produced in collaboration with the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive, the material in this collection includes thousands of audio field recordings and interviews, educational recordings, film footage, field notebooks, slides, correspondence and ephemera from over 60 fields of study.

Connect learners to the information they're looking for with tools that make discovery fast and easy. Gale’s premier periodical resource, Gale Academic OneFile, provides millions of articles from over 19,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources—including full text of leading US and international newspapers as well as multimedia resources. Subject coverage is extensive, allowing researchers to explore relevant articles on key areas of study, including biology, chemistry, criminal justice, economics, environmental science, history, marketing, political science, and psychology.

Gale Business: Entrepreneurship is a comprehensive database that covers all aspects of starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, tax, and more. It combines authoritative periodical and reference content to support prospective and current entrepreneurs as well as business students. Experience an easy-to-browse interface mapped to four key stages—plan, fund, start, and manage—to fit your research needs at any point in your business's development.

Empower users with the tools necessary to easily access and interpret complex global business concepts. Designed by and for business researchers, this valuable resource compiles comprehensive business intelligence and places it into logical, useable context with enhanced navigation and interactive tools. Daily updates to more than 500,000 detailed company profiles and in-depth country and industry overviews help researchers stay current with the everchanging business landscape.

Our largest general-interest periodical resource, Gale General OneFile allows researchers to find the information they want quickly. With intuitive searching that mirrors Internet searches, users can easily tap into sources that are guaranteed for quality.Most content in Gale General OneFile is full-text with no embargo and recommended by Bowker's Magazines for Libraries. We've included reference, newspaper, and audio content that complements the resource's robust collection of magazines and journals. With millions of articles available, Gale General OneFile serves a wide audience of readers.

Discover the world’s most influential people with Gale In Context: Biography. Narrativebiographies, new stories, and multimedia content bring to life the historical figures, world leaders, sports stars, entertainers, scientists, and authors who have impacted our world throughout history as well as those who are shaping our future.

Gale In Context: College offers interdisciplinary content that reinforces the development of skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation. Learners can access news content including full-text newspapers and periodicals like The Economist, The New York Times, National Geographic, Newsweek, Popular Science, Smithsonian, and more. Empower learning with hundreds of thousands of images, videos, and audio selections that include archival film clips, broadcast video, BBC News, New York Times video, and NPR.

Today’s environmental issues determine the destiny oftomorrow’s world. Gale In Context: Environmental Studies is designed to support students, researchers, and educators in exploring and understanding the critical issues surrounding the environment, many focused in human-environment interactions. Gale In Context: Environmental Studies provides students and researchers with comprehensive information to critically analyze and understand topics across environmental studies and the humanities from a global perspective.

Gale In Context: Global Issues supports global awareness and perspective while tying together a wealth of authoritative content, empowering learners to critically analyze and understand the most important issues of the modern world. Users can examine issues as reported through the news, global viewpoints, reference materials, country information, primary source documents, videos, statistics, and more.

Gale In Context: Science is an engaging online resource that provides in-depth contextual information on hundreds of today’s most significant science topics. By integrating authoritative reference content with experiments, projects, interactive simulations, videos, and images, students see how real-world issues relate to scientific disciplines across the curriculum.

Draw students into the historical events that shaped our country. Gale In Context: U.S. History is an engaging online resource designed to support U.S. history studies by providing a thorough overview of our nation’s complex past—from wars and political movements to the individuals and cultural shifts that initiated them.

Bring history to the fore front of your curriculum with Gale In Context: World History.This engaging online resource reaches back to the beginning of recorded history through today’s top headlines, putting topical issues in context.Students will gain a more complete understanding of the people and cultures that formed our collective history.

A database of over 130 tracks to stream jazz music from thousands of jazz performers. Good for the study of jazz history, appreciation, and performance.

Latinx Thought and Culture: The NPR Archive, 1979-1990 showcases two radio programs: the weekly Spanish-language Enfoque Nacional (1979-1988) and the Daily English-language Latin File (1988-1990), available for the first time in a searchable database as digitized audio with transcripts. They focus on Latinx issues related to politics, sociology, human rights, the arts and more with interviews of key figures and news reporting by a new generation of Latino/a journalists at the time.

This is a cross searchable database that links access to the following music streaming databases: American Music, Classical Music Library, Contemporary World Music, Jazz Music Library, Listening, Music and Dance Online, Music Periodicals of the 19th Century, Popular Music Library, Reference, and Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries. This database provides unlimited simultaneous access to over 7,000,000 tracks of music.

Classical, jazz, world, rock, pop, folk, etc. Music notes, cover artwork, track list, instrumentation & publisher information, libretti & synopses of operas, composer & artist biographies. Streaming access. Coverage: Varies by title.

OverDrive is a digital media platform offering a variety of e-books and e-audiobooks for use by library patrons. Users can access content through the Libby app, the OverDrive website, or through records in the library's catalog.

Philosophy Talk is a weekly, one-hour radio program that challenges listeners to question their assumptions and to think about things in new ways. The hosts' down-to-earth and no-nonsense approach brings the richness of philosophic thought to everyday subjects. Topics are lofty (Truth, Beauty, Justice), arresting (Terrorism, Intelligent Design, Climate Change), and engaging (Baseball, Love, Happiness). Philosophy Talk is produced by KALW on behalf of Stanford University, as part of its Humanities Outreach Initiative. Unlimited access to the complete Philosophy Talk radio archive. The archive features 500 episodes on a enormous range of interdisciplinary topics that support course curricula. Contains all Philosophy Talk episodes aired since the program's debut in 2004.

Popular Music Library from Alexander Street contains a wide range of popular music from around the world, including hundreds of thousands of tracks from major genres in pop music, including alternative, country, Christian, electronic, hip-hop, metal, punk, new age, R&B, reggae, rock, soundtracks and many more.

ProQuest One Anthropology collections offer comprehensive, multimedia resources for the study of anthropology, including the largest collection of ethnographic videos and previously unpublished archival field materials. Content is presented on a multimedia platform that reflects the integrated methods of field research, through linking and cross-searchability of text, audiovisual and archival primary sources. The resources work in tandem to bring the fieldwork process to life by juxtaposing original fieldwork with subsequent published ethnographies, as well as follow up studies and visual ethnographies that span a century.

Developed in collaboration with faculty, scholars, and librarians, ProQuest Black Studies brings together ProQuest's award-winning Black Studies content into one destination for research, teaching, and learning purposes. This database combines primary and secondary sources, including leading historical Black newspapers, archival documents and collections, key government materials, videos, writings by major Black intellectuals and leaders, scholarly journals, and essays by top scholars in Black Studies. Alongside the outstanding content in the database, ProQuest Black Studies includes easy to use functionality such as timelines, topic pages, and collection pages that allow students and researchers at all levels to easily navigate the database to find the sources they need.

ProQuest One Performing Arts breaks the silos between performing arts disciplines by bringing them together all in one place: music, theatre, and dance. The collection includes audio recordings, reference materials, music scores, video recordings of live performances, playscripts, monographs, periodicals, archival materials, and more. Material covers the early modern period through to the present, from all over the world, and across disciplines and genres, from opera to bluegrass, ballet to street dance, and Shakespeare to Broadway.

World music and aural traditions. Recordings of music, spoken word, oral histories, and natural and human-made sounds. Coverage: All time periods, most recordings done 1948-1986.