Streaming Audio Databases
- Naxos Music Library: World This link opens in a new windowNaxos Music Library World offers a wide range of World music, from legendary historical musical performances to contemporary world music.
- Music and Dance Online from Alexander St. Press This link opens in a new windowAvailable with your Multnomah County Library card, this database contains recordings of classical, jazz, popular, and world music; also contains video and text.
Streaming Video
- Ethnographic Video Online This link opens in a new windowThe collection covers every region of the world and features the work of many of the most influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, including interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides, and more.
Images
- Repertoire International d'Iconographie MusicaleThe RIdIM database indexes images depicting music-making, instruments, people in music history, and other music-related subjects. Many, but not all, of the records are linked to digital images.
- Ethnomusicology Musical Instrument CollectionImages, with some sound and video files, of the University of Washington's collection of more than 400 instruments.
- National Music Museum (University of South Dakota)NMM's "collections...include more than 15,000 American, European, and non-Western instruments from virtually all cultures and historical periods." Virtual collections may be browsed by instrument family, with non-Western instruments clearly identified, and include images as well as extensive descriptions.
- Artstor This link opens in a new windowA digital library of more than 3 million images across a variety of subjects, contributed by museums, artist estates, and a variety of institutions. As of 2024, Artstor is hosted on the JSTOR platform.
