Journal Articles:
The music faculty expect their
students to use scholarly journal articles for research assignments.
These articles usually provide the most comprehensive and research-oriented
information on a topic. Articles in scholarly journals have also gone through a
rigorous selection process to ensure a uniformly high level of scholarship.
Differences between scholarly journals and popular
magazines.
Different Types of Music Periodicals and their Use Chart:
To find citations to articles in musicand links to full-text, consult one or more of the indexes listed below:
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Electronic Indexes |
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| List of all Pollak Library Subscription Databases | |
| Good Source for Scholarly Research Materials |
RILM 1. Index to more than 200,000 citations 2. Articles, bibliographies, catalogs, dissertations 3. Emphasizes scholarly sources 4. International, contains 202 languages 5. 1969-current date, updated monthly |
| Popular and Current Music Articles |
Academic
Search Premier 1. Source for current articles of general topics 2. Contains a large number of full-text articles 3. The results of a search can be e-mailed 4. Includes magazines, journals and newspapers |
| Pollak Library will own most articles in the Humanities Abstracts |
Humanities
Full Text 1. 300 Key Humanities publications 2. Covers 1984 to present date 3. Contains abstracts for 3/94 to present date 4. Primarily journal Articles and reviews |
| General | OmniFile Full Text Mega 1. Combined search of eleven databases 2. Includes Humanities, Social Sciences, Art, Business, Sciences and more. |
| Information on teaching music |
ERIC 1. Indexes professional education materials 2. Indexes journals and Education Documents 3. Covers 1976 to present date |
| Worldwide Holdings of Library Catalogs |
WorldCat 1. A source for books, sound recordings, manuscripts, archives and more 2. Catalogs of libraries worldwide 3. Forty million+ records 4. Back to the year 1000 AD, updated daily |
| Good Source for Historical Sources |
Music and Performing Arts Online 1. 400+ scholarly and popular journals 2. Includes two databases: International Index of Music Periodicals International Index of Performing Arts 3. 1874-to current date, updated quarterly 4. Covers all music aspects from classical to popular music |
| Scores | Classical Scores Online 1. Not a source of articles 2. Databases of printable scores |
| Audio Files | Classical Music Online 1. Not a source of articles 2. Database of audio files of classical music |
| UC Library Catalog |
Melvyl 1. Database of the holdings of the University of California libraries 2. The public version of Melvyl does not include access to articles. |
Note: It is possible for current CSUF students to search all of the online databases at home.
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