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Interdisciplinary resource with popular, scholarly, and peer-reviewed articles and citations. Includes speeches, newspapers, and polls.
Provides article references for journals across the arts and humanities disciplines, including art and art history, archeology, architecture, dance, music, film and theater, history, humanities, literature, and religion. Offers cited reference searching.
Access to general and subject-specific reference books (encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations and proverbs). Provides a graphics-based Concept Mapping option for topic exploration.
Search across subject-specific reference encyclopedias.
Streaming video platform offering thousands of multidisciplinary videos.

Search across a wide range of scholarly literature from around the world. This custom link for Google Scholar includes the Macalester Library code and will display a "MACLINKS FULL TEXT" link next to resources available from Macalester Library. You will also see MACLINKS if you are logged in to the on-campus network. If you are off campus and don't use the above custom link, you can configure Google Scholar to display MACLINKS by customizing your library links settings.

Collection of online jazz, including both historical and contemporary musicians and covering thousands of artists, ensembles, albums and genres.

Large collection of scholarly journals and books from all disciplines, with stronger coverage for the humanities and social sciences. Current issues from journals (the most recent 3-5 years) are generally not available in JSTOR.

Text content from various publishers. Includes encyclopedias, scores, manuscripts, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, cover art, lyrics, liner notes, songs, and discographies.
Songs covering all eras of American history from the Revolutionary War to twentieth-century anti-war protests; extensive liner notes included
This resource includes recordings of music written from the earliest times (eg Gregorian Chant) to the present, including many contemporary composers. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera.
More than 30,000 pages of essential reference materials, spanning the entire history of Western classical music, including: Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music.
Classical scores from both in-copyright and public domain editions. The major composers output is represented, as well as many lesser known composers and works.
Access to music across many genres, both contemporary (ex. reggae, Arab swing and Jazz, worldbeat, Bollywood) and traditional (ex. Indian classical, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku).
Some of the most important opera performances captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries.
Popular Music Library 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.
The Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries collection provides educators, students, and interested listeners with an unprecedented variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms.
This encyclopedia surveys world music by region and topics. This comprehensive resource contains more than 9,000 pages of material, combined with entries by more than 700 experts. It also includes audio examples.
Credible source for news, legal and business sources that is updated daily. Includes access to print and online journals, television and radio broadcasts, newswires and blogs, as well as local, regional, national and international newspapers, legal sources for federal and state cases and statutes, business information on U.S. and international companies and executives. For Business Nexis Uni covers company and industry news, detailed company financial data, and includes major accounting journals. In Law, the database provides texts of federal and state court decisions, federal and state agency regulations, and law journal articles.
A narrative history covering the Western classical tradition from the Gregorian chant to contemporary music. Volume 6 of the print version contains a chronology, bibliography and master index.
Resource of reference materials such as dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. Provides database-wide searching, subject searching across sources, and individual title searching.
Access to journals in the humanities and social sciences, covering literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and economics.

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Arts & Humanities and Special Collections Librarian

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Ginny Moran
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