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Dive into our rich music, arts and science resources.
ArtistWorks
Online blues, bluegrass, jazz, rock, and classical music lessons from master musicians. Offers guided path of lessons containing everything they need to reach their musical goals including: hundreds of hours of high quality video instruction; studio quality play-along tracks; and downloadable written materials, tablature and sheet music.
Calisphere
Photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts — reveal the diverse history and culture of California and its role in national and world history.
Creativebug
Experience the joy of making with thousands of award-winning video classes taught by top designers and artists. With Creativebug you'll enjoy unlimited access to thousands of online art and craft classes featuring knitting, crochet, jewelry-making, paper arts, quilting and more. Watch our classes anytime, anywhere. Since our classes never expire, you can start and stop projects at your own pace.
Health and Wellness
Research a wide range of health issues. You can look up medications, explore various diseases and conditions, and find information from the Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine.
JSTOR and ARTSTOR
JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, images, and primary sources. With ARTSTOR you can explore collections of images and primary sources from libraries, museums, and archives around the world.
Literature Criticism
An extensive compilation of literary commentary that represents a wide range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras & genres. Content from: Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism.
Literature Resource Center
Find biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of novelists, poets, essayists, and journalists from every age and literary discipline.
Music Online from Alexander Street Press
More than 1 million tracks from all genres of music available to stream.
Music Online is divided into 5 collections for easier browsing: American Song, Classical Music Library, Contemporary World Music, Jazz Music Library, and Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries.
NOTE: Not available through our OPAC terminals. Check out a Chromebook at any branch to use this resource.
National Geographic
A complete archive of National Geographic magazine from 1888 to the present day, along with a cross-searchable collection of National Geographic books, maps, images and videos.
Naxos Music Library
Streaming access to 3 million tracks of classical music. More than 600 new CDs are added to the library every month.
Naxos Jazz Music Library and Naxos World Music Library are also available.
BPL does not have an access code for the NAXOS app.
NOTE: Not available through our OPAC terminals. Check out a Chromebook at any branch to use this resource.
Naxos Sheet Music Publishing
Browse this catalogue of high-quality sheet music editions available for download and print and MIDI. Features a wide range of composers from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Physical Review Journals
Access (in-library only) to all online APS journals, from the most recent articles back to the first issue in 1893, a collection including over 400,000 scientific research papers.
Academic OneFile
Research millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources—including thousands of podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN, as well as videos from BBC Worldwide Learning. Includes full-text access to the New York Times, updated daily.