Research Guides
Reviewing the literature | Research Skills | Finding Guides | Citation Styles & Guides
For users new to music research, these guides are designed to help you find your way through the various resources available to you.
Reviewing the literature
- Conducting a Literature Review - Getting Started, Finding Reading Material, Keeping Track of Reading Materials, Critical Reading, Reviewing and Rethinking, Plagiarism, Structure of a Literature Review, Starting to Write, Further Reading.
- Reviewing the Literature - Language and Learning Skills Unit.
- Effective Reading in the Humanities - Language and Learning Skills Unit.
Research Skills
- Music Research Skills program 2008
- Research Strategies for course assignments
- Research help - library basics, beginning research, finding information, acknowledging sources.
- Information Skills - classes, research tutorials and guides, software tutorials
- Searching the catalogue - effective techniques and searching tips.
- Searching the Music Literature : Finding journal articles - identifying and locating journal articles.
- Smart Searching - constructing an effective database search.
- Guides to Databases and Research - Information Division Guides
- Internet Searching - tutorial, guides, search engines and search directories lists.
- Information Skills Classes - take a class and improve your research skills quickly.
Finding guides
- Finding Books on Music | Ethnomusicology | Music Therapy
- Finding Journal articles, etc.
- Finding Music scores - modern editions
- Finding Music scores - manuscripts & early editions
- Finding Sound Recordings
- Finding Theses/Dissertations
- Finding Videos and Media materials
- Finding newspapers
Citation Styles and Guides
- Citation Style and Writing Guides in Music
- Ethnomusicology Citation Style and Writing Guides
- Music Education Citation Style and Writing Guides
- Music Therapy Citation Style and Writing Guides
- Evaluating & Citing Web resources, and WWW definitions - tutorials and guides.
- Endnote : tips and tools