A not-for-profit music database offering on-demand, streaming access to classical, jazz, and popular music recordings with original liner notes, essays and cover art. Contains more than 4,000 albums’ worth of recordings from 42 independent labels and archives. Searchable by composer, performer, label of origin or keyword.

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Online access to more than 2.6 million tracks from over 165 thousand CDs in classical music, jazz, folk, and world music. Search or browse contents by composer, artist, genre, or label, or categories such as chamber music, composers, film music, opera, etc. Also includes the Naxos Dictionary of Music, a reference tool featuring musical terms, composers and instruments; aural training exercises; work analyses that focus on core classical compositions; and Naxos Musicology International, which contains music scholarship on a range of repertoires, genres, creative and scholarly approaches.

Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. EEBO includes over 146,000 titles published in English and more than 30 other languages from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the ages of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War. Transcriptions are available for approximately 50% of the texts.

The database, also known as Repertoire International des Sources Musicales, documents the world's musical sources of manuscripts or printed music, works on music theory, and libretti held in libraries, archives, monasteries, schools, and private collections. It includes more than 620,000 manuscript records by over 22,500 composers found in over 800 libraries and archives in 32 countries around the globe.