Open Access: Digital Resources for Music(ology) site debut
Digital Resources for Musicology provides us with a long-awaited pulling together of concise information and links to the multiple, substantial open access projects or sites of use to musicologists, musicians, and librarians. In addition to its topical organization, the DRM features a cross-search of the projects–something researchers have long dreamed. It’s very fitting that the DRM makes its debut during Open Access Week being observed worldwide.
The DRM site is sponsored by the Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities, an affiliate of the Packard Humanities Institute, at Stanford University. Compilation and brief explanations are mainly by Eleanor Selfridge-Field with contributions by many colleagues, especially including Giuliano Di Bacco, Liza Vick, Kerry Masteller, and Jennifer Ward plus several project developers; design and technical implementation by Craig Stuart Sapp; other advice by Ilias Chrissochoidis. Persistent URLs have been used where available. DRM emphasizes open-access repositories. Music libraries offer excellent links for any licensed-access materials.