The acquisition of subject-relevant literature and scholarly resources in printed and digital form is of central importance here, just as a broad variety of digital services for the subject field. The services established under the joint label musiconn. Musicology connected (www.musiconn.de) are continuously expanded and optimised. The provision and technical further development of the online catalogue of the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM Catalog) at the BSB forms part of this. Including over 1.5 million music sources, this reference instrument represents the most relevant database of its kind on a worldwide level.

Thanks to the online repository musiconn.publish of the SLUB, the FID Musicology has also become a constant in the field of digital publishing, offering researchers an option to publish their work free of costs, in open access and with a long-term storage guarantee. This service will be expanded continuously during the coming years, which is also applicable to the database for musical performance events musiconn.performance at the SLUB and the web application musiconn.scoresearch for searching melodies on the basis of optical note recognition at the BSB.

Moreover, the BSB continues its service for archiving musicologically relevant websites and the registration authority for musicological dissertation projects and expands the portal musiconn.libretto by full-text search and the inclusion of authority data.

A board made up of representatives from a wide spectrum of musicological institutions and an international Advisory Board additionally ensure continuous feedback to the FID Musicology with respect to its work and give new impulses for further developments which are oriented on the demands of scholarship.

All services and further information can be retrieved via the project's portal www.musiconn.de.
www.musiconn.de

Press release for download
Press release  (PDF, 182 KB)  (in German)

Contact
Jürgen Diet
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Department of Music
Ludwigstrasse 16, 80539 Munich
Phone  +49 89 28638-2768
juergen.diet@bsb-muenchen.de

Prof. Dr. Barbara Wiermann
Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats-und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden, Department of Music
Zellescher Weg 18, 01069 Dresden
Phone  +49 351 4677-561
barbara.wiermann@slub-dresden.de

Über die Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Founded in 1558 by Duke Albrecht V, the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, which holds 37 million media units, is the largest scholarly universal library in Germany and one of the most important heritage institutions worldwide. With over four million digitized works, the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek holds the largest digital data stock of all German libraries. The library offers a broad variety of services in the field of innovative digital use scenarios. In addition, it acts as the technical and editorial operator of the Bavarian state's cultural portal bavarikon and of the Literaturportal Bayern, as well as the technical operator of the official announcement platform of the Free State of Bavaria.

About the Saxon State and University Library Dresden
The Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB) is a high-performance academic library which also bears responsibility on a national level for the development and operation of digital services and infrastructures supporting research. It fulfils coordination and service functions for the Free State of Saxony as a regional and state library, at the same time being responsible for the information provision to a research-centred excellent university as the library of the Technical University of Dresden. The SLUB also manages the picture library Deutsche Fotothek and the German Archive of Culinary Arts.