After a successful trial, the Library have acquired subscription-based access to the database Overton.
Overton is the world’s largest collection of policy documents, parliamentary transcripts, government guidance and think tank research.
You can restrict your searches to policy from specific regions, countries or source types. Other filters allow you to view policy that cites research from a particular university, think tank, or academic.
Overton also helps users measure their influence on government policy, both locally and internationally. If you fund, publish or produce research, Overton can show you where it has been cited in policy worldwide.
Overton offer extensive help guides and videos to guide you in making the most of the database. Here are some of the key links and videos to get you started:
The Library has acquired access to Music Online: Classical Scores Library, a reliable and authoritative destination for in-copyright digital scores of the classical canon, as well as a resource for the discovery of diverse and lesser-known contemporary works.
The resource provide access to works by 4,600 classic and contemporary composers, from traditionally studied composers such as Mozart and Tchaikovsky, to contemporary artists including Kaija Saariaho, Peter Maxwell-Davies, and John Tavener.
With access to over 65,000 titles, the resource is essential for those looking to access a wide range of digital scores in one interface. Keyword search function is enable across all of the volumes, and users can browse by title, genre, instrument, people, publisher, time period, or composer. Users also benefit from Alexander Street database functionality, such as adding annotations to scores and the option to print.
The six volumes that are available are:
The first volume of Music Online:Classical Scores Library includes more than 400,000 pages from classical music’s most studied composers, including Bach, Schubert, Mozart, Handel, Beethoven, Liszt, Brahms, Chopin, plus thousands more. Additional material in Volume I includes 100 scores from the Barry S. Brook Center’s collection of French Opera in the 17th and 18th centuries, providing access to the music and libretti of the early operas during an important period in the development of the genre.
Music Online: Classical Scores Library, Volume II provides online access to 200,000 pages of scores. In addition to new works from contemporary composers, Volume II includes a range of important composers not represented in the first volume and alternative editions of many of music’s most studied compositions. Featured composers include Claude Debussy, Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Ravel, Andrew Schultz, Moya Henderson, Nicholas Vines, Giovanni Sammartini, Michael Haydn, and many others. This volume also includes The Symphony 1720-1840– the largest source of 18th century symphonies comprising 550 symphonic works.
Music Online: Classical Scores Library, Volume III brings together 400,000 pages of in-copyright editions from composers worldwide. The collection provides editions from major publishers like Chester Music, Novello & Company, Faber Music, Wilhelm Hansen, Donemus, and others. It provides expanded coverage of great choral works and instrumental scores for brass, woodwind, and other instrument groups. Volume III features modern editions of works by Bach, Beethoven, Berlioz, Brahms, Byrd, Gibbons, Handel, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Monteverdi, Mozart, and Purcell, as well as classic works by Elgar, De Falla, Franck, Holst, Joubert, Maxwell-Davies, Musgrave, Saariaho, Sallinen, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, and many more.
Music Online: Classical Scores Library, Volume IV is a collection of 300,000 pages of scores that focuses on works of the 20th and 21st centuries, providing digital access to some of the most-studied works in classical repertoire and exposure to lesser-known composers from around the world including Latin America, Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East.
Music Online: Classical Scores Library, Volume V provides digital access to some of the most-studied works in classical repertoire and exposure to lesser-known composers. This collection builds on Classical Scores Library, Volume IV’s collection with an emphasis on contemporary composers and works from the 20th and 21st centuries alongside a selection of scores from medieval, baroque, classical and romantic time periods. Upon completion, the collection will include 400,000 pages of scores sourced from individual composers and from renowned publishers such as Donemus, Ernst Eulenburg & Co. GmbH, Novello & Company, Chester Music, Faber Music, and Schott Music GmbH & Co. KG, and University of York Music Press.
Volume VI of the Classical Scores Library presents masterpieces from one of the world’s most esteemed classical music publishers. This partnership with Boosey & Hawkes, renowned for their extensive industry influence, grants a rich catalogue featuring revered masterpieces by classical and contemporary maestros, providing music scholars with rich resources for performance and study. This collection celebrates influential classical composers alongside emerging voices, featuring ground-breaking works that have left a lasting impact on global music, valuable for both performance and study.
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In Semester One, academic year 2023/2024 we successfully processed 55 requests in SAPL totalling just over £3800.
5th World Congress on Disaster Management: Volume V : Proceedings of the International Conference on Disaster Management, November 24-27, 2021, New Delhi, India
Asian Revitalization: Adaptive Reuse in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Singapore
Assessing Student Learning: A Common Sense Guide, 3rd Edition
Beyond Foucault New Perspectives on Bentham’s Panopticon
Boundaries 13 Tiny Houses Self-built – Off the Grid
Building with Paper: The Materiality of Renaissance Architectural Drawings: 2
Citizens of no place
Citizens, Civil Society, and Activism under the EPRDF Regime in Ethiopia: An Analysis from Below
Colloquial Swahili
Compassionate Cities: public health and end-of-life care
Concrete Concept: Brutalist Buildings Around the World
Concrete Hong Kong: Build Your Own Modernist Metropolis
Crack in the wall : life and death in Kowloon walled city
Deserts Are Not Empty
Design For More-Than-Human Futures Towards Post-Anthropocentric Worlding
Designed Landscapes: 37 Key Project
Designing Reform: Architecture in the People’s Republic of China, 1970–1992
Dharma and Ecology of Hindu Communities Sustenance and Sustainability
Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age
Documenta11: Platform4: Under Siege: Four African Cities: Freetown, Johannesburg, Lagos, Kinshasa
Downtown, Inc.: How America Rebuilds Cities
Drawing on the Inside: Kowloon Walled City 1985
Environmental Psychology and Human Well-Being: Effects of Built and Natural Settings
Ethics and Organizational Practice Questioning the Moral Foundations of Management
Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society
Historical Muscat : an Illustrated Guide and Gazetteer.
Imperial Ascent: Mountaineering, Masculinity, and Empire
Iran Encountering Globalization: Problems and Prospects
Longing for the Future: Mal D’Afrique and Afro-Optimism in Perspectives on Somalia (Routledge Studies in Modern History)
Medieval modern : art out of time
Moderns abroad: Architecture, Cities and Italian Imperialism
Mogadishu through the Eyes of an Architect
Mogadishu: Lost Moderns
Multimodal Conversation Analysis and Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis A Methodological Framework for Researching Translanguaging in Multilingual Classrooms
New Economic Spaces in Asian Cities From Industrial Restructuring to the Cultural Turn
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
Planning in a Failing State: Reforming Spatial Governance in England
Railway
Rebirding: Rewilding Britain and Its Birds
Red Mars: Kim Stanley Robinson
Regeneration Songs: Sounds of Investment and Loss from East London
Resilient and Sustainable Cities Research, Policy and Practice
RIBA Job Book / 10th
Sir Titus Salt and Sons – A Farming Legacy
Space Architecture: The New Frontier for Design Research (Architectural Design)
Studies in Organic: Kengo Kuma and Associates
Sustainability Indicators: Measuring the Immeasurable?
Sustainable Cities: Local Solutions in the Global South
The Epic of Mount Everest
The Everest Effect: Nature, Culture, Ideology
The Extraordinary Amazing Incredible Unbelievable Walled City of Kowloon
The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space
The making of modern Ethiopia: 1896–1974
The people’s property? power, politics, and the public
Wearable Sensors (Second Edition): Fundamentals, Implementation and Applications
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Our Recommend a Book service for students allows you to tell us about the books you need for your studies. If we don’t have the books you need, simply complete the web form and we’ll see if we can buy them. For books we already have in stock, if they are out on loan please make a reservation/hold request using Library Search.
Our Recommend a Book service for students allows you to tell us about the books you need for your studies. If we don’t have the books you need, simply complete the web form and we’ll see if we can buy them. For books we already have in stock, if they are out on loan please make a reservation/hold request using Library Search.
