Research Resources
RESEARCH RESOURCES (restricted to Wesleyan access)
- JSTOR (full text articles in scholarly journals, not including the past 3-10 years)
- Project Muse (full text articles in scholarly journals, only covering the past 3-10 years)
- WorldCat (books and sound and video recordings contained in all university libraries)
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (pdfs that can be downloadable)
- Music research links from Olin Library
- Listing of all of the Indexes and Databases in Olin Library
Open Access
- allmusic.com (comprehensive database of LP/CD albums, with biographies, chart positions, Grammy awards)
- discogs.com (comprehensive listing of vinyl albums and photos of the covers)
- ASCAP and BMI (for searching composer copyright registrations)
- Magazines
- Newspapers
- Google Advanced News Archive Search
- Village Voice
- Historical newspapers online (U Penn site)
- Library of Congress, search America’s newspapers (1836-1922)
- Dissertations
- Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology (DDM) (abstracts only)
- DART-Europe E-theses Portal (European dissertations, some full text)
- Library and Archives Canada (full text dissertations, etc.)
- China Knowledge Resource Integrated Database (articles, dissertations)
Citing print sources in a paper
In the bibliography include: author, title of book, chapter, or article (and page numbers if it’s a chapter or article), volume and issue number of journal if appropriate, date of publication, publisher or journal title. In a footnote citation, include the page number cited. If the source is a chapter in an edited collection, be sure to reference it by the author of the chapter first (the editor of the collection should also appear later in the body of the reference). When using footnotes, only include the long form the first time; use the short form thereafter.
If a print source was retrieved via JSTOR, Project Muse, or any other database of print sources like that, treat it as a print source only (including all the information above). As long as it initially appeared in print and you have the original page numbers, it is not necessary to provide any web information about how you retrieved it.
The easiest and most effective approach is to find an academic book or article that looks good to you and simply use the bibliography in it as a guide. You are safest with books published by university presses or scholarly journals.
For more info on citing sources, see the Olin library page here.
ACADEMIC WRITING
- Becoming a Stylish Writer (Chronicle of Higher Education)
- International Art English
- Plagiarism
- Fareed Zakaria in Time magazine (2012), and more fallout
- Chris Anderson’s Free (2009) (NY Times report; original VQR article with hundreds of comments)
- Powerpoint: pro; con
Posting youtube videos to a course blog
To jump to a specific time in a youtube video posted on a blog, visit youtubetime.com.
Miscellaneous
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