This list, which began life in the 1990s, is not regularly checked for broken links, but the maintainer, J. P. E. Harper-Scott, would be very grateful to be alerted to the need for any changes or additions (email).
- AAUP (Association of American University Presses), On-line Catalogue (“contains fully searchable bibliographic data and descriptive text from more than fifty scholarly publishers; currently, 65,000-plus titles are represented, and this number is expected to climb rapidly to more than 100,000 titles from nearly 100 presses”)
- Africassette (ethno recordings, Rick Steiger, Detroit, MI)
- CDnow (commercial service for CD searches and sales)
- Classical and jazz online cd shop (“specializing in rare secondhand and deleted classical and jazz cds — over 30,000 items in stock, wants requests service, information service, friendly and knowledgeable staff”)
- Khazana (Minnesota: classical music of India)
- Music Boulevard (commercial service for CD sales on the Internet)
- Move (Australian independent recording label, concentrating primarily on classical music, particularly Melbourne-based musicians and composers)
- Music Mall (vendors and retailers)
- Multicultural Media Catalogue (“contains descriptions of CDs, videos, books, and CD-ROM of world music and dance organized into geographic regions including: North America, The Caribbean, Central and South America, Africa, Europe, Middle East/West Asia, Central Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia, and Oceania; also included are announcements of new releases and special sale items)
- Music & Audio Connection (Norris-Whitney Communications, a company involved in magazine and book publishing and distribution, live event management, graphic design and on-line services)
- musicCONNECT record catalogue (“comprehensive, detailed and searchable on-line music catalogue”)
- Qualiton (CD sales)
- Red Hedgehog Music (CDs, including recording labels from the Czech and Slovak Republics, Hungary, Bulgaria, Poland, etc)
- searchRED (“the most comprehensive online database of music recordings and music information distributed in the UK”, Ben Pole)
- Smithsonian/Folkways recordings (searchable database for all the Original Folkways recordings; “search for any song title, performer, label, or any text entry (sorry, no lyrics) in Original Folkways/Cook/Paredon labels or Smithsonian/Folkways label up to July 1995; Web pages show covers in color, offer audio samples; pages for recent recordings issued since August 1995 include more details”)
- SMUSIC (commercial site with classical CDs, including many cut-price)
- White Cliffs Media, catalogue of books and recordings, primarily on African music (Gilsum, NH)