Research Guides: Online Video and Audio Content from the VU Libraries: Streaming Audio

Performing Arts Audio Databases:

Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
Streaming audio service of the complete recording catalogs of the Naxos label and numerous other labels. The main genres covered are classical, world, folk, jazz, and Chinese music.
Access Note: Please remember to "log out" once you are done (use red log out button). Closing your browser window does not log you out of the system, and could prevent another user from accessing Naxos. User Limit: 15.
Naxos Music Library World This link opens in a new window
Streaming audio library of world music. Covers Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania.
Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries This link opens in a new window
Encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. Contains music recordings.
DRAM This link opens in a new window
Recordings, liner notes, and essays, including the full catalog of New World Records.

Presidential Recordings Digital Edition This link opens in a new window
Recordings and annotated transcripts of telephone conversations of Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon. Transcripts are searchable and browseable by administration, series, speaker, date, place, and duration.
User Limit: Unlimited.
Presidential Recordings Program This link opens in a new window
American presidential recordings in the White House between 1940 and 1973, presidential speeches, and presidential oral histories.
Overdrive This link opens in a new window
Contemporary fiction, classic novels, and nonfiction e-books and audiobooks on a variety of topics.