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ODU Libraries Databases

Diehn Composers Room Resources:

CD Collection of sound effects -- BBC Sound Effects Library
Recorded music available on cd and vinyl – copyrighted

Libraries Databases:

Music & Performing Arts
Music & Performing Arts combines audio and video that spans all time periods, hundreds of thousands of seminal artists, composers, choreographers, and ensembles to provide an unparalleled learning environment for the teaching of music.

Free music for downloading: Click on the link "free classical music downloads and free world music downloads!" for bi-weekly downloads from the Music Online collection listed above in the Music & Performing Arts link in classical and world music.

OAIster
Coverage varies (Restricted VIVA/ODU)
A union catalog of digital resources, including items such as digitized (i.e., scanned) books and articles, born-digital texts, audio files (e.g., wav, mp3), images (e.g., tiff, gif), movies (e.g., mp4, quicktime), and datasets (e.g., downloadable statistics files). OAIster provides access to these digital resources by "harvesting" their descriptive metadata (records) using OAI-PMH (the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting).
Literature Resource Center
Includes full-text journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, biographical information, and overviews on over 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. Includes fulltext information from many standard reference sources (e.g., Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Literary Criticism) and from books in Twayne's Author Series.

Open Web

Community Audio
A variety of audio sources, many available for download, from the Internet Archive.
Free Music Archive
"The Free Music Archive offers free downloads under Creative Commons and other licenses. Please visit the track page to discover what you can and cannot do with each track."
Jamendo: Creative Commons
Free music for podcasts and video projects available for streaming or downloading.
FindSounds
A free site where you can search the Web for sound effects, specifying file type and sound quality.
Freesound
"Freesound is a collaborative database of Creative Commons Licensed sounds [not songs]. Browse, download and share sounds." Free registration.
FlashKit Sound Loops
"A huge archive of royalty free music loops for you to download .... Explore and download, or submit your own original loops!"
SoundJay
"You are allowed to use the sounds on our website free of charge and royalty free in your projects but you are NOT allowed to post the sounds on any web site for others to download, link directly to individual sound files, or sell the sounds to anyone else....."
International Dialects of English Archive
Online archive of primary-source recordings of English dialects and accents as heard around the world.
Library of Congress Digital Collections
From the Library of Congress, audio recordings relate to the history and culture of the United States. Includes folk music, slave narratives, oral histories, speeches, and more
Digital Public Library of America
A growing collection of millions of digitized materials (images, audio, video, text) from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions across the country available to all in a one-stop discovery experience. Users can limit by copyright status, among other filters, and guidelines are provided.
American Rhetoric
Collection of contemporary and historical speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, and more. Includes transcripts, audio and video.
World HipHop Beats
Download free creative-commons licensed instrumental music for educational use.