The Online Journal of Bass Research (OJBR) is a refereed electronic journal, published by the International Society of Bassists. The OJBR is published solely in an electronic format, accessible free of charge.

The OJBR is pleased to announce the release of Volume 2, #1. The current issue presents Shanon Zusman's critical review of the book, Studies in Italian Sacred and Instrumental Music in the 17th Century (Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2003) by Stephen Bonta. For those researching the early history of stringed bass instruments (including the earliest incarnations of the violoncello, bass viol, and double bass), Bonta's more than 35 years of research is among the most important and oft-cited. The Ashgate book is a collection of sixteen of Bonta's essays, ranging from his first publication in the Journal of the American Musicological Society (1967) to his most recent article from the symposium Barocco Padano (2002).

Also still available is the OJBR's inaugural issue, Volume 1, #1, which presents Michael Greenberg's ground-breaking article, "The Perfect Storm: The Rise of the Double Bass in France 1701-1816."