Open Access eResources Audio Links
Library DatabasesAUDIO LINKS
- Internet Archive: Audio Archive – live Music Archive, Netlabels, Presidential Recordings, and more.
- Historical Voices – audio collections and an audio archiving standardization project.
- IMLS Digital Collections – includes Image, Sound, Moving Image, and Physical Object (photos of objects), as well as Interactive, Text, and Data.
- IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library: Free Public Domain Sheet Music – public domain sheet music and music scores.
- Tufvesson collection – online sheet music.
- World Public Library MP3 eBooks – audio recordings of classic literature and poetry, such as Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum” and Whitman’s “Song of Myself”.
- National Jukebox @ LOC.gov – free recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center and other contributing libraries and archives.
- ccMixter – Creative Commons licensed music, audio, and video available for use and reuse.
- PennSound: Authors – audio files of poetry readings, downloadable and reusable.
- Places For Free Audio Books Online – a collection of links to audio book sites.
- CBC Massey Lectures – annual lecture since 1961, “the CBC will invite a noted scholar to undertake study or original research in his field and present the results in a series of half-hour radio broadcasts.”
- radioarchive.cc – free spoken word content from the British Broadcasting Corporation and similar open sources of spoken word broadcasting.
- Lit2Go – audiobook versions of literature specifically arranged and categorized for teachers of literature. Some reading strategy/lesson plan materials available as well.
- Woodberry Poetry Room – streaming audio of recordings from Harvard’s Woodberry Poetry Room audio collection.
- Socrates Plato Aristotle | History of Philosophy without any gaps (podcast series)– a history of Western philosophy through a series of podcast lectures by Peter Adamson, Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at King’s College, London.
- Academic Minute | Audio | Inside Higher Ed – short reports from leading researchers on the latest research (daily podcast).
- Science Friday – the podcasts of this weekly show are available on the website and in iTunes. Also available are videos, blog posts, and teacher resources.
- Audio Library from the US Fish and Wildlife Service – the Digital Library also includes images, video, and documents. Most materials are public domain–all are open access.
- Oregon Public Speakers: A Legacy of Debate, Discourse, & Dialogue at Portland State – Portland State’s recently rediscovered lost-in-storage recordings of speakers on campus. 1952-1979. Allen Ginsberg, JFK, Margaret Mead, Loren Eisley, Alex Haley, Eugene McCarthy. Science, history, education, writing, politics.
