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N – Fine arts
NA – Architecture
NB – Sculpture
NC – Drawing
ND – Painting
NE – Graphics
NX – Art

Other sections

TR – Photography (Geography, mathematical, natural and applied sciences)
GT – Fashion (Social science, anthropology)
PN – Cinema, movie (Language, literature)
PN – Theathre (Language, literature)
SB – Garden architecture (Geography, mathematical, natural and applied sciences)

• BHA (Bibliography of the History of Art) i RILA (Répertoire international de la littérature de l’art)
• Das grosse Kunstlexikon von P.W. Hartmann
• Reallexikon zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte (RDK) 
• Art & Architecture Thesaurus (The Getty Center) 
• Dictionary [of Classical Art] The Beazley Archive. Classical Art Research Centre 
• Glossary of Medieval Art and Architecture
• The Dictionary of Art Historians 

E-resources available at the University of Warsaw

• Academic Search Ultimate – various sources, articles, journals and other.
• CEEOL – Central and Eastern European Online Library – sources for the humanities from Central and Eastern and Southern Europe.
• JSTOR – journals and books. Collections: Architecture&Architectural History and Art&Art History.
• MasterFILE Premier – various sources, articles, journals and other.
• Oxford Journals – journal publishing Oxford University Press.
• Proquest Central – the base was divided into domains.In box – “art” we will find 7 collrctions.
• Wiley Online Library – Collections: Architecture & Planning and Arts & Applied Arts.
• Ibuk Libra – polish science books.
• Academic Research Source – electronic books from renowned scientific publishing houses.
• VLeBooks – mainly academic textbooks.
• Wiley Ebooks – access to items marked with an open padlock symbol.

E-resources generally available

Polish

• Platforma Otwartej Nauki (CEON) – we will find here a repository, articles from magazines and the “Open Book” service, containing books by Polish scientists (in the areas we will find the history of art).
• BazHum – full-text database of Polish humanities and social science journals.

 

Foreign

• Art–Dok – the world’s largest open repository of scientific publications on art history .
• Dart Europe – scientific dissertation portal with access to full texts.

• artcyclopedia – a database containing an index of artists and their works represented in museums of the world, available online. It also contains an index of photography, multimedia art and architecture.
• architektura.net – portal dedicated mainly to contemporary architectural projects.
• artnet. The Art World Online – search engine for artists, galleries, auctions, etc.
• Great buildings – the page dedicated to the largest buildings in the world contains a search engine by the name of the building, the name of the author or place.
• Olga’s Gallery – contains, among others indexes: artists, mythological figures and Christian saints.

Specialized libraries in Warsaw

Print Room of the University of Warsaw Library 

Library of the Institute of Art History at the University of Warsaw

Public Library of the Capital City of Warsaw, Reading Room of Art and Cartography

Library of the National Museum in Warsaw

Library of the Academy of Fine Arts

Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art

Zachęta – National Gallery of Art – Dokumentation and Library

Polish Academy of Sciences. Institute of Art Library 

Other

Polish Academy of Sciences. Institute of Art

Związek Polskich Artystów Plastyków (Association of Polish Visual Artists) 

The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage

Polish National Committee of International Council on monuments and Sites

M 1495-2199 – Vocal music – songbooks
ML 25-38 – Musical institutions. Festivals. Conferences
ML 100-109 – Encyclopedias, dictionaries
ML 112.8-158.8 – Bibliographies
ML 385-410.P – Biographies of musicians
ML 421 – Vocal and instrumental ensembles
ML 422 – Conductor biographies ML 459-1354 – History of instrumental music. The history of instruments
ML 1400-3275 – Vocal music
ML 3400-3465 – Dance music
ML 3469-3541 – Entertainment music
ML 3544-3776 – National music ML 3790-3792 – Music industry
ML 3919-3920 – Music therapy
MT 1-165 – Theory of music
MT 170-810 – Learning to play instruments MT 918-948 – Musical education of children and youth

Other sections
GV – Dance (Social science, anthropology)
TK, TR – Sound (Geography, mathematical, natural and applied sciences)
QC – Acoustics (Geography, mathematical, natural and applied sciences) RM, RZ – Music therapy (Geography, mathematical, natural and applied sciences)

E-resources available at the University of Warsaw

• Academic Search Ultimate – various sources, articles, journals and other.
• CAIRN – Collection: Arts – journals in French.
• Cambridge Journals – Music – academic journals of the Cambridge publishing house.
• CEEOL – Central and Eastern European Online Library – sources for the humanities from Central-Eastern and Southern Europe.
• Grove Music Online – offers full texts of Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, issue 2 (2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992) and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, issue 2 (2002), as well as numerous subsequent publications, including over 50,000 articles and 30,000 biographies, the collection of which is the result of the work of 6000 musicologists from around the world.
• JSTOR – journals and books. Collection: Music.
• MasterFILE Premier – various sources, articles, journals and other.
• Oxford Journals – journal publishing Oxford University Press.
• Proquest Central – the base was divided into domains. In box – “art” we will find 7 collrctions Rilm Abstracts of Music Literature – abstract database in the field of music.
• Ibuk Libra – polish science books.
• Academic Research Source – electronic books from renowned scientific publishing houses.
• VLeBooks – mainly academic textbooks.
• Wiley Ebooks – access to items marked with an open padlock symbol.
• Naxos Music Library – Phonotheque of the Institute of Musicology. He specializes in classical music. The database is available from the computer network of the Institute of Musicology and the Office of Music Collections of the University of Warsaw Library.

E-resources generally available

Polish

• Platforma Otwartej Nauki (CEON) – we will find here a repository, articles from magazines and the “Open Book” service, containing books by Polish scientists (in the areas we will find the history of art).
• BazHum – full-text database of Polish humanities and social science journals.

Foreign

Dart Europe – scientific dissertation portal with access to full texts.

RISM (Répertoire International des Sources Musicales) – it is a publicly available valuable database that gathers information about the repertoire of historical music sources. It collects over 700,000 descriptions of songs written by over 25,000 composers from the 16th to the 19th centuries. The database also contains descriptions (over 2,000) of the collection parts of Lower Silesian provenance manuscripts from the BUW Music Collection Cabinet.

Harvard Online Resources for Music Scholars – online resources for students of musicology.

MusRef – e-books, e-magazines, digital collections.

Early Music Sources – Iconography Database.

Notes

IMSLP – International Music Score Library Project – very comfortable lists of works by individual composers and compositions for various compositions and instruments, and also many books about music.

Digital scores and libretti – Harvard – music manuscripts from the 18th and 19th centuries

Sheet Music Archive 

Polish Music Information Centre

CLASSICAL MUSIC DIRECTORY – referral portal to music schools, musicological centers, music magazines and thematic websites.

ALL MUSIC GUIDE – blues, country, folk, gospel, jazz, rap, reggae, rock.

ViFaMusik – German musicological portal.

Specialized libraries in Warsaw

Music Department of the University of Warsaw Library

Institute of Musicology at the University of Warsaw

National Library – Music Collections

Fryderyk Chopin Institut – Library, Photo collection, Record Library.

Phonographic Collection of the Institute of Art

Other

Warsaw Philharmonic

Polish Jazz Association

PWM Edition

The Grand Theatre – National Opera