Databases and e-journals
The Digital Library of the KB offers online access to a large number of national and international databases, electronic journals and catalogues, of which many in the field of music.For access to most of these files a year pass is required.
| Reference works | |
| Oxford Music Online (formerly New Grove Online) |
Important musicological reference works, including The New Grove. |
| Journals | |
| JSTOR Arts & Sciences II & III | More than 400 journals, including many on music. |
| e-Journals on Music | List of online accessible music journals |
| Catalogues and bibliographies | |
| RILM Abstracts of music literature | This international music bibliography gives references (with abstracts) to books, dissertations and journal articles as well as to reviews of books, sheet music editions and sound recordings. |
| Picarta | Collections of more than 600 Dutch libraries. |
| Online Contents | Contents of nearly 15.000 journals in all sciences. |
| STCN | Dutch retrospective bibliography for the period 1540-1800. Contains descriptions of books published in the Netherlands and published abroad in the Dutch language. The STCN is made on the basis of library collections in the Netherlands and abroad, including the NMI. |
| Newspapers | |
| Krantenbank (Lexis Nexis) |
Daily updated digital archives of various newspapers and magazines. Dutch newspapers since the early 1990's, regional newspapers, journals and magazines since August 2008. |
Digital Library
- Digitale Bibliotheek » (with year pass for full options)
- Digitale Bibliotheek »(without year pass, limited access)

