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Online Resources

RIAM Library electronic resources 

To access from outside the RIAM campus, use the Remote login links and enter your RIAM email and password. For Naxos Music Library, please contact library staff for the username and password.

If you have any difficulties in connecting, please contact us at library@riam.ie or call 01-6325318

To review & access any of these databases, select the relevant title below: 

Ebooks in the humanities, including music. 



[On-campus] 

[Remote login]: Same as on campus, then

  • when viewing a book, click "Read book"
  • under Institutional Access look up Royal Irish Academy of Music
  • then enter your RIAM email & password

Index of US-based dissertations in music and musicology. No password required 

Access DDM.

Research in education (including music education). No password required

Access ERIC

Note: Grove Music remote login does not work with MS-Edge browser

[On-campus]

[Remote login] 

Texts, translations and IPA phonetics of songs and arias. 

[On Campus] 
[Remote Login]

 

Full-text of articles from a range of academic music journals. 

[On-campus] 

[Remote login]

 Online streaming audio of multi-label music recordings. Also available as an app. 

[On-campus] 
[Remote login RIAM Staff & Students: contact library@riam.ie for password]

 

With nkoda you can view a large collection of digital scores from major publishers, including many contemporary and 20th century works. You can also view scores only available via hire. 

  • Android or iOS devices: download from Google Play or the App Store, then My Library, select Log in with your Institution, use RIAM email & password and create personal account with your RIAM email
     
  • Desktop: app.nkoda.com - click on Log in then select Login with your Institution, use RIAM email & password to log in.  

Search for and access the full text of dissertations from repositories worldwide. The subject scope is multidisciplinary. 

Access Open Dissertations

Full text of RIAM MMus & DMusPerf theses, and articles by staff. Also includes compositions and performances by staff. No password needed.

Access RIAM Research Repository

International research database of music literature, with records in 140 languages.

Access RILM [On Campus & Remote Login]

RISM International Inventory of Musical Sources is a database of early printed and music manuscript sources (pre-1800) held in libraries and archives around the world. No password needed.

Access RISM 

Digital version of Strad magazine, with archive of issues from 2014 onwards. When accessing this, search for Royal Irish Academy of Music under institution, and then enter your RIAM email & password. 

Access Strad Online

Digital music collections online (no password needed)

  • Chopin Early Editions Early printed editions of Frédéric Chopin held by the University of Chicago Library
  • Early Music Online Some of the earliest printed music volumes from the British Library’s collections
  • Handel Works Handel-Gesellschaft edition (published Breitkopf & Härtel, 1858-1894)
  • IMSLP Large library of  public-domain scores
  • Liszt Works Franz Liszt: Musikalische Werke “Carl Alexander” edition (edited by Busoni, Raabe et al., 1907-1936)
  • Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s Werke (Edited by J. Rietz, published Breitkopf & Härtel, 1874-7)
  • Mozart Complete Works NMA Online: Neue Mozart-Ausgabe (published Bärenreiter, 1955-1991)
  • Schumann Early editions (from the Bayerische Statsbibliothek, München)
  • VARIATIONS project Public domain scores available to view (from Indiana University)

Other online resources (no password needed)