Finding Information in Print

Plenary session, October 26, 2009

Kevin McLaughlin

 

Articles and Books:

            SFCM LIBRARY DATABASES  (For a complete list go to:

    http://www.sfcm.edu/departments/library/databases.aspx)
                        Oxford Music Online (New Grove Dictionary) – use bibliographies to find articles

RILM (Abstracts of Musical Literature) – cites scholarly articles about music

                        Music Index – cites scholarly articles as well as music reviews.

            SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY DATABASES (library card needed!)

                (For a complete list go to:  http://www.sfpl.org/sfplonline/dbcategories.htm)

                        JSTOR – full text scholarly articles, including music

                        WorldCat – citations for journals and books (and scores); where to find them

                        New York Times Historical (ProQuest)* – NY Times articles, 1851-2006

     *primary source material!

Dissertations Abstracts | (FirstSearch) – verifies the existence and availability

  of North American and European dissertations, 1861-present. 

            [To buy print copies of dissertations, go to: ProQuest dissertation ordering:

           (http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/orderingres.shtml)]

 

            OTHER

Google Books (books.google.com) – online access to books, in whole or in part.

Google Scholar (scholar.google.com) – searches across a range of scholarly information including books, articles, and citations. Caution: At the moment Scholar is stronger in the sciences than in the humanities (incl. music).

                        Wikipedia – getting better all the time.  Use with some caution.

 

Library call nrs. to know (Look in REFERENCE as well as GENERAL STACKS --

M=scores; ML = history and criticism; MT= Instruction and study)


ML 113 = bibliographies, general (e.g. Duckles: Music Reference and Research Materials)
ML 128 =  bibliographies, topical (e.g. Hoek: Analyses of 19th &  20th C Music)
ML 134 = Thematic Indexes (Kφchel nrs, BWV, etc.); + Guides to Research (i.e. composers)
ML 410 = Books about composers: life and works (i.e. some analysis)

ML 416+ = Books about performers

ML 1100+ = Genre studies (ML1100=chamber, ML1200=orchestral, ML1700=operas, etc.)

ML 3797 = Music research help (e.g. Sampsel: Music Research)
MT 92+ = Musical analysis (MT 100=opera; MT 125=symph; MT 145=keyboard, etc.)

Q 180.55 = General research help (e.g. Booth, et al.: The Craft of Research)