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Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics
Contains over 2000 comprehensive and accessible expert-written essays on major authors, periods and genres.
Cambridge Companions to Music
Provides clear and accessible information on composers, instruments or musical topics, written with the student, the performer and the music lover in mind.
Directory of Music Faculties in Colleges and Universities, U.S. and Canada
Lists around 1800 institutions and over 37,000 faculty. Indexed by institution, faculty, faculty teaching areas, graduate degrees.
Dissertations & Theses Global
Collection of full-text dissertations and theses. Includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format.
EBSCOhost eBooks at EKU
A large collection of electronic books covering numerous subject disciplines.
Literature Criticism Online
This is the core resource for literary analysis. Includes complete, searchable backfiles for six of the Gale Literature Criticism book series: Contemporary, 20th Century, 19th Century, Shakespeare, Poetry, and Short Stories.
OASIS (Openly Available Sources Integrated Search)
Use this database, developed by SUNY Geneseo, to find open educational resources (OERs) including textbooks, courses, modules, videos and more to use in your classes. These are free of copyright restrictions,
Oxford Reference Online
Select collection of reference works published by Oxford University Press.

PRINT BOOKS at EKU

SEARCHING

To learn how to search our EKU print book collection consult the Finding Music Resources FAQ.

FINDING

As an example, here are the search results for biographies on Beethoven. (This was an Advanced Search in which Beethoven's name was typed into the first search box, as the subject, and "biography or biographies" was typed into the second search box, as keywords.)

BROWSING AN ENTIRE SUBJECT

If you would like to look at all of the EKU books on a specific musical topic (biographies of classical composers, histories of popular music, instruction books for how to play a specific instrument, etc.), first consult the call number guides listed below, then go to the fourth floor of the main library and look for the shelves with those call numbers.