Internet Collection & Acquisition Resources (Music Library)

In-Print Online Bookstores and Databases

• Search and compare prices in the following online bookstores + more at AddALL.com (40+ sites) and FetchBook.com (126 stores)
  • Amazon.com (online U.S. books, CDs, videos)
  • Barnes & Noble (books, CDs, videos, OP books)
• Amazon.ca (Canadian books, CDs)
• Amazon.fr (French books, CDs)
• Amazon.de (German books, CDs)
• Amazon.co.uk (UK books, CDs)
• Bibliographie nationale francaise (French national bibliography: books & printed music)
• Blackwell's Books (UK & US books)
• Casalini libri (Italian book/score vendor: login required)
• Deutsche Nationalbibliografie online
• Erasmus (French book vendor database: login required)
• Harrassowitz Music Services (including OttoEditions) (European music books and scores, facsimiles, thematic catalogs, monuments, collected editions, new publications, books/score database from 1986: login required)
• L@tbook.com(Argentine & Brazilian book database by Libreria Garcia Cambeiro)
• Libros Latinos (Latin American & Central American books)
• MIPP International (books from post-Soviet countries)
• Österreichische Bibliographie (Austrian national bibliography: books & printed music)
• Panorama of Russia (Russia and New Independent States book database and orders)
• Puvill libros (books from Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Latin America)
• Ruslania (Russian books, scores, CDs)
• Russian Press Service (Now run by MIPP -- Russian music books under "Arts")
• Schoenhof's Foreign Books (North America's largest foreign-language bookstore)
• Theodore Front Musical Literature (books & music published worldwide since 1994)
• Touzot (French book vendor: select "Book Search" for English-language interface)

OP Book & Antiquarian Music Dealer Catalogs and Databases

• BookFinder and Bibliofind (Amazon) and AddALL Used (simultaneous searches of the following OP book datases and others)
  • ABE Books
  • Amazon.com
  • Alibris.com (OP books & recordings)
  • Half.com (an eBay company) 
• bibliophile.net (new, rare books worldwide)
• Dan Fog Musikantikvariat (online database of books and scores)
• Harvest Booksearch
• Howard Karno Books (Latin American books old & new)
• Musikantiquariat Katzbichler (books & scores)
• Ernst Kuhn (books: separate lists of Russian-language and Western-language music books)
• LIM Musica Antiqua
• Montagnana Books (the violin family: current catalog online)
• Musikantiquariat Michael Raab (books & scores)
• SLAM (French multi-dealer antiquarian book database)
• Paul van Kuik Antiquarian Music (books & scores)

Books-in-Print Databases

• Books in Print (USA: login required)
• VLB - German BIP (includes CDs)

Dissertations

• ProQuest Dissertations
• Theses Canada Portal
• Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology (DDM Online)
• ANRT (French dissertations)
• CRL dissertation database (foreign dissertations: under construction)
• Index to Theses (universities of Great Britain and Ireland: 1970- )
• British Thesis Service (to order)
• TESEO (Spanish doctoral theses 1976-)

Scores

• American Composers Alliance (database/sales of members' works)
• Blackwell's Music Shop (printed music)
• Casalini libri (Italian scores: select "Musical Scores" in I Libri database)
• Chamberlain Music (UK editions details/prices)
• Educational Music Service (score database)
• Elibron (50,000 reprint scores)
• Ejazzlines.com (everything jazz: scores, CDs, videos books)
• Esteva servicios bibliotecarios (Mexican books, scores, CDs: site under construction)
• Frank Music Company
• GSP (Guitar Solo Publications)
• Guitar Gallery
• Harrassowitz Music Services (including OttoEditions) (European music books and scores, facsimiles, thematic catalogs, monuments, collected editions, new publications, books/score database from 1986.)
• Hickeys Online Music Store (all-purpose music store)
• Robert King Music (brass music)
• Luck's Music Library (orchestral music)
• Luyben Music (clarinet music)
• Music Print Dokkum (brass, band music)
• MusicaNet (international choral-music database)
• MusicIT 97 (music-in-print from 57 Italian music publishers as of 1997)
• MusicRoom (UK music and books)
• OMI (facsimiles: PDF catalogs)
• JW Pepper.com (Scores published world wide)
• Pueblo Music (sheet music from Argentina)
• Puvill (scores from Spain, Mexico)
• Ruslania (Russian books, scores, CDs)
• Shar Music (string music database)
• SheetMusicPlus.com
• Penders.com (formerly Sheet Music Service)
• Theodore Front Musical Literature (books & music published world-wide since 1994)
• Trevco Music (double-reed music)
• Vanderbilt Music (harp music)
• Steve Weiss Music (percussion music)

Antiquariat Score Dealer Catalogs and Databases

• Lisa Cox Music (online inventory of scores)
• Dan Fog Musikantikvariat (books & scores)
• Musikantiquariat Katzbichler (books & scores)
• Ernst Kuhn (scores & books)
• J. & J. Lubrano (antiquariat scores)
• Musikantiquariat Michael Raab (books & scores)
• Paul van Kuik Antiquarian Music (books & scores)

Microfilms (early music)

• Deutsches Musikgeschichtliches Archiv (table of contents)
• Hill Manuscript Library (catalog)

CDs and Videos

Online Stores and Databases (in-print recordings)

• All Music Guide ("Buy" links to retailer affiliate CDNow)
• Amazon (CDs, videos, books)
• Archiv (classical recordings, imports, OP section coming soon)
• Barnes & Noble (books, CDs, Video)
• CD Source / AV Source
• CD Universe (CDs & videos, with detailed track information)
• CD Connection (CDs & Videos)
• CD-Info (product and preservation information)
• CDeMusic (Electronic Music Foundation)
• ClassicalNet (links to retail recording sites)
• Crotchet (obscure UK releases)
• Descarga.com (Afro-Latin CDs & DVDs)
• ejazzlines.com (everything jazz: scores, CDs, videos books)
• electrocd.com (electronic music)
• Esteva servicios bibliotecarios (Mexican books, scores, CDs: site under construction)
• GEMM (new, used, imported CDs, videos, books from multiple vendors)
• Gourmet musical (Latin American CDs)
• H&B Direct (principally classical CDs)
• Harold Moores Records (UK CD & LP dealer)
• MDT International Mail Order (classical CDs, DVDs)
• Music Library Service Company
• Music Print Dokkum (brass, band CDs)
• Musical.gr (recordings from Greece)
• Musical Heritage Society
• mymusic.com (discount CDs -- new site in beta as of December 2011)
• Tower Records (CDs and videos)

OP Cutout/Deleted Recording Resources

• Guides and Links to the Following and More from Leslie Troutman and Anna Seaberg
  • Alibris (used CDs and vinyl)
  • Ars Nova (online catalogs)
  • Berkshire Record Outlet (OP CDs and LPs)
  • CDtrackdown (domestic OP and hard-to-find foreign CDs)
  • GEMM (new, used, imported CDs, videos, books from multiple vendors)
  • Mikrokosmos (database of rare/used LPs)
  • Parnassus Records (OP, deleted, imported CDs and vinyl)
  • The Record Collector (vinyl: no searchable database, but accepts want-lists online)
  • Used CDs (search multiple used-CD sites world-wide)
  • Yankee Music Search (free worldwide search for OP recordings)

Label Directories

• allrecordlabels.com (20,000+ links)
• Record label WWW sites (IU list)
• International Record Review Directory (400+ classical labels)
• Wickipedia Record Labels on the Web (ca. 2,300 links)
• World Music Central

Video Only Databases