Music Research from Home using NYPL resources: About

Researching Music Remotely

The NYPL has over 800 databases available from this page https://www.nypl.org/collections/articles-databases

This guide is designed to help you do music research remotely using NYPL resources, as well as freely available materials beyond our holdings. 

We've included

• a tab for music & arts specific databases - some are available from outside the Library buildings.
• a tab for non-music databases that you might not have considered would be helpful
• a tab for e-book access - yes, we have a large collection of fiction, but we also have scholarly books through several academic publisher

If you need reference help, the Music & Recorded Sound Division staff are available via email for consultation. Contact us at music@nypl.org or recordedsound@nypl.org

Or if you have a more complicated question and would like to arrange a Research Consultation with one of our staff, you can fill out this form https://www.nypl.org/ask-nypl/make-appointment-lpa 

We also post regular links of interest and ways to use NYPL resources to our Twitter and Facebook pages. Follow us there!

If you live in NY State & don't have a NYPL library card - you can apply for one and use it immediately !

New York state residents who are 13 and older are welcome to apply for a digital library card using this form https://www.nypl.org/library-card/new and then, using the SimplyE app, gain access to an array of digital resources, including e-books, audiobooks, databases, and more. In order to take out physical material, you will nee to visit an NYPL branch to obtain and validate a physical library card.