Bjergsted: The special library for the faculty of performing arts

• British Library Sound Archive Catalogue of recordings in one of the largest sound collections in the world.
  
• Norsk lydinstitutt Search the Norwegian sound institutes database, one of the worlds largest collection of recorded classical music.

In Oria you can find an overview over relevant databases for music and dance.

Some of the databases are open access, but for most of them you’ll need UiS sign in. Use remote access if you are off campus.

Other reccomended databases:

• Academic Search Premier: Fulltext database with articles from most fields of study.
  
• Google Scholar: Search for articles, books, reports, thesis, conference papers and more.
  
• JSTOR: Full text database in social science, economy, and humanities.
  
• RILM Abstracts of Music Literature: A comprehensive bibliography on writings about music featuring citations, abstracts, and indexes. It covers over one million publications from the early 19th century to the present on traditional music, popular music, classical music, and related subjects, enhanced with the full text of more than 200 periodicals

• African American Music Reference: Extensive reference database of blues, jazz, gospel, and other Afro-American music.
  
• Classical Music Reference Library: Contains more than 40 000 references. Covers all of the western, classical history. Includes Baker’s Dictionary of Music, Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians og Baker’s Student Encyclopedia of Music.
  
• Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Digital edition of the famous reference work about world music, first published in 1997.
  
• International Encyclopedia of Dance: Articles written by professionals from 50 countries. Covers dance, culture, music, and costumes, and contains biographies from many dancers and choreographers.
  
• Jazzbasen Historical knowledge database about jazz in Norway. Contains discographical information about Norwegian jazz productions from 1905 until today.
  
• Oxford Dictionary of Dance: Information about dances, choreographers, composers, and important works in dance.
  
• Oxford History of Western Music: Digital edition of Richard Taruskins famous work about western classical music.
  
• Oxford Music Online: Contains Grove Music Online, with The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Opera, and Jazz. Also contains Oxford Dictionary of Music og Oxford Companion to Music.

We have many journals in the library, and you can access our digital journals with remote access. In Oria you can search for journals both by title and ISSN.

With Browzine you can easily get an overview of the journals you need, and create your own, virtual bookshelf with the journals you want to read and keep track of.

Recommended journals for performing arts:

• Jazz Perspectives
• Music and Letters
• Journal of Dance Education

You can find printed newspapers in the library, mostly in Norwegian.

• Retriever (Atekst): Articles in full text from Norwegian newspapers and magazines.

• Classical scores library: Classical music from the Middle Ages to the 20^th century.
  
• Biblioteksøk: Searching service from the Norwegian National Library.
  
• NB Noter: The National library of Norway’s collection of digital sheet music.
  
• Sangindex: Archive of songs and sheet music published in Norway up to 2011.
  
• Vis- og låtregister: Archive of Swedish songs.