Music 

Over 50,000 tracks of American traditional music, including music of native American, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys, and songs about Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more.

Freely accessible. Tens of thousands of recordings from the archival sound recording collections of the British Library. Includes Western classical, world music, popular, and more.

Freely accessible. The Belfer Audio Archive includes over 22,000 cylinders, 12,000 of which are unique. The digital collection will include 6,000 online audio files by 2010, selected in collaboration with the UCSB Cylinder Project to ensure non-duplication of the two projects.

A growing collection of over 50,000 tracks of music from the Middles Ages to the present, including many contemporary composers. Repertoire ranges from solo vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera.

Contains a blend of contemporary and traditional world music recordings from many labels throughout the world. When complete, the database will contain 50,000 tracks, including genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz. Traditional genres will include Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more. Liner notes to all the albums are included in PDF format.

A platform that cross-searches American Song, Classical Music Library, and Contemporary World Music.

A rapidly growing database of over 35,000 albums and nearly 500,000 tracks. Most of the collection is classical, but it also includes jazz, world, new age, and some pop and rock. Labels included in addition to Naxos are Chandos, Caprice, Wergo, CPO, Hungaraton, and many more.

A growing international collection of thousands of jazz albums, as well as blues and R&B. Includes the 22 labels of Fantasy Jazz.

Includes Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and the archival audio collections of Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon, and other labels and collections.

Freely accessible. A digital collection of nearly 8,000 cylinder recordings. Dating from the early 20th century, they provide a window into society and culture of the period. The recordings may be streamed or freely downloaded. From the Department of Special Collections of the UCSB Library.