Covers musician and composer biographies, instruments, performance practice, music genres, ethnomusicology, music publishing, and music terminology.
Comprised of the following: Grove Music Online, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, The Oxford Companion to Music, Encyclopedia of Popular Music Content: Covers musician and composer biographies, instruments, performance practice, music genres, ethnomusicology, music publishing, and music terminology Coverage and Currency: Ongoing updates Type: Full text Access: Access limited to Grant MacEwan University IP addresses. Remote login with a MacEwan network user ID and password
Limited to 3 concurrent users Supplier: Oxford University Press
Content: Covers musician and composer biographies, instruments, performance practice, music genres, ethnomusicology, music publishing, and music terminology Coverage and Currency: Ongoing updates Type: Full text Access: Access limited to Grant MacEwan University IP addresses. Remote login with a MacEwan network user ID and password.
Limited to 3 concurrent users. Conditions of Use: Use of this database is restricted to members of the MacEwan University community and to users physically present in the Library. It is the responsibility of each user to ensure that they use this database for individual, non-commercial, educational or research purposes only, and do not systematically download or retain substantial portions of information. Supplier: Oxford University Press
A leading general reference source for Canadian Music that aims to describe Canada’s musical heritage and culture in all its breadth and depth: the past and present manifestations of popular, folk, religious, concert, and other forms of music, as well as the educational, critical, administrative, and commercial aspects of music in Canada.
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online is the first comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. More than 9,000 pages of material, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world, make this the most complete body of work focused on world music.
Access: Access limited to Grant MacEwan University IP addresses. Remote login with a MacEwan network user ID and password. Conditions of Use: Use of this database is restricted to members of the MacEwan University community and to users physically present in the Library. It is the responsibility of each user to ensure that they use this database for individual, non-commercial, educational or research purposes only, and do not systematically download or retain substantial portions of information.
Provides online access to dictionaries, encyclopedias and other reference materials.
Description: The collection features: over 2 million entries such as 180,000 audio pronunciation files; 66,000 art, science, and medical images; and 90,000 atlas images of places and geographic features throughout the world. Type: E-books. Access: Access limited to Grant MacEwan University IP addresses. Remote login with a MacEwan network user ID and password. Conditions of Use: Use of this database is restricted to members of the MacEwan University community and to users physically present in the Library. It is the responsibility of each user to ensure that they use this database for individual, non-commercial, educational or research purposes only, and do not systematically download or retain substantial portions of information. Supplier: Xrefer
Online, searchable and browsable version of the well known Encyclopedia Britannica.
Description: Over 75,000 articles from the Encyclopdia Britannica, including 23,000 biographies, full-text articles from more than 700 magazines, over 27,000 images and maps, plus 3,300 animations, videos, and audio files, and 166,000 Web sites selected by Britannica editors for additional information. Coverage and Currency: Historical to current events, people and places. Updated continuously. Type: E-books. Access: Access limited to Grant MacEwan University IP addresses. Remote Login with a MacEwan network user ID and password. Conditions of Use: Use of this database is restricted to members of the MacEwan University community and to users physically present in the Library. It is the responsibility of each user to ensure that they use this database for individual, non-commercial, educational or research purposes only, and do not systematically download or retain substantial portions of information. Supplier: Encyclopdia Britannica, Inc.
A collection of electronic reference books, primarily related to English Literature, but also including titles from Science and History.
Description: Includes the entire series of Novels for Students, Drama for Students, Short Stories for Students, and Poetry for Students, in addition to encyclopedias from other subject areas. Coverage and Currency: 1997+. Type: E-books. Access: Access limited to Grant MacEwan University IP addresses. Remote login with a MacEwan network user ID and password. Conditions of Use: Use of this database is restricted to members of the MacEwan University community and to users physically present in the Library. It is the responsibility of each user to ensure that they use this database for individual, non-commercial, educational or research purposes only, and do not systematically download or retain substantial portions of information. Supplier: Thomson Gale.
Fully-indexed, cross-searchable dictionary, language, and subject reference works, including detailed information across a broad subject range from titles in the Oxford Companions Series.
Description: Language and subject reference works from Oxford University Press. Coverage and Currency: Updated at least three times a year with new titles, new editions, and additional features. All content is reviewed and updated regularly. Type: E-books. Access: Access limited to Grant MacEwan University IP addresses. Remote login with a MacEwan network user ID and password. Conditions of Use: Use of this database is restricted to members of the MacEwan University community and to users physically present in the Library. It is the responsibility of each user to ensure that they use this database for individual, non-commercial, educational or research purposes only, and do not systematically download or retain substantial portions of information. Supplier: Oxford University Press, via OCLC Canada
Full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue and also offers guides to debating, developing arguments and writing position papers.
Description: 100 key topics of interest to Canadian researchers containing a balance of materials from all viewpoints, including 400 main essays, leading political magazines, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents, and reference books. Coverage and Currency: 20th century to current issues. Updated daily. Type: Full text. Access: Access limited to Grant MacEwan University IP addresses. Remote login with a MacEwan network user ID and password. Conditions of Use: Use of this database is restricted to members of the MacEwan University community and to users physically present in the Library. It is the responsibility of each user to ensure that they use this database for individual, non-commercial, educational or research purposes only, and do not systematically download or retain substantial portions of information. Supplier: EBSCO Publishing
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