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There's one other service that we have for finding materials outside of
Lovejoy Library,
and that would be WorldCat.
I'm going from the local, now we've gone to the state level,
and finally we're going to go to the national and beyond level.
So I'm going to go back to Books, Media, and More,
and Libraries World-Wide,
WorldCat.
Now this is; remember this is a national
type database so
so you wanna be a specific as you can be when you do a search.
I'm going to go to the "Advanced Search"
option.
And
this time I'm going to say "Music Education."
And
"Writing."
I have 1400
1400
items, So let me get a little more specific, I'm going to say "Subject."
I could also specify
"Format,"
if I wanted.
Now in this case if I want a score in there might be something, but
I'm trying to get something on music education. But if I was looking for a
particular musical score, I could easily scope
through this format
option
to find a music score.
I could specify a book,
in this case lets see if it
limits it a little further.
Okay, that brings it down to about half,
uh...
if I wanted only eBooks,
you can search that way. But
in a national uh... and in WorldCat I
would advise against eBooks. You could search our local catalog and if we had any
eBooks
available then you could find them there,
and have access to them.
A lot of
libraries order eBooks and they're accessible to their library users only.
So that's something to keep in mind as you search.
But just for
example sake, let's say we wanted this volume here.
"Learning Through Music."
This is for those who are interested in music therapy.
And you get all the:
is distributed in here in St. Louis.
If you are interested in this book,
you can click on all Worldwide libraries that own the item and it shows
by distance
to us here at SIU Edwardsville
um... the closest libraries that own the book.
Since it is also available in
Illinois at Western Illinois University,
what you do next as you go back into I-Share
and request the book to our state system.
But if Western Illinois's copy was checked out,
then you can come back
and you could request the book
through this system.
You click on "Request Through Interlibrary Loan."
And this goes to a different interlibrary loan system which is called
ILLiad.
So if you ever encounter this sort of situation and you really, really want the
book that comes up,
go ahead and put your eID and password in, which is the same you
used to get into blackboard.
I ask you to register in ILLiad,
but then,
uh... you can put in the
the bibliographic information and request the book.
And our staff here in the library will
usher that request through until the the book comes or they've
exhausted all their possible sources of getting that item for you.
So there are two actual ways of going
and getting materials from other libraries.
The most convenient and easiest is to go through I-Share, which you can request
yourself at any time of day or night.
um... The other is for
through IlLLiad,
through WorldCat,
or if there's a journal article that we just can not
provide
through any of our Full Text databases or
print subscriptions here the library.
Let's go now to searching for
journal articles.
When searching for journal articles,
you go to the library home page
and select the second option.
Now you can, if you already know which journal
you're needing, like for instance if
Doctor Bell had
a specific article that he wanted you to read,
and it was available through our
databases,
then
you could do a search "By Title."
Maybe you don't remember it exactly, you remember it was something dealing with music
education.
So you can say "Contains" if you have the exact title, then you could do an "Exact"
search.
Here, "Journal of Historical Research in Music Education."
And here's another, "Music Education Research."
And it goes through a
software package that
keeps track of which databases the
library offers and which journals are within that
particular database. And that does change.
Those titles are negotiated with publishers
and
thank goodness we have this computer software to help us keep track of all
that. It's hard to,
it'd be hard for people to do that
on a regular basis.
So in this case,
A lot of times there will be an embargo period
in which the full text won't be available and in the EBSCO databases,
this is an example of.
A lot of times there's a six-month embargo period.
But you can at least get the abstract or the summary of the article
as you search.
Now in this case it's searching
"By Title,"
which is one way to search into a database,
and again normally you would search
a title search when you have a specific
article in mind that you're trying to access.
So it's very easy to use.
And with the citation information you can go to the appropriate year of the
publication.
Here's an example of one that does have the full text available.
Just click on the PDF
and you'll see it
the way it originally appeared.
That's helpful when you go to cite
in a paper because you can see exactly how the original
uh... publication was
presented.
Now let's say that we want to search
uh...
by a particular database.
So,
each of us subject librarians have created
uh... subject listings of databases.
So,
if you select "By Subject," notice that there is a category for "Education."
If you go under "Fine Arts & Communication," music is included here.
So,
music journal databases,
the largest of our full text databases is Academic Search Complete.
But the music related ones
are IIMP, which stands for International Index to Music
Periodicals,
and JSTOR.
Let's start with IIMP.
As you can see it's a
International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text. It's a ProQuest database;
uh... similar to
the EBSCO databases.
And similar to our
online catalog, our UFind
and I-Share catalog, and WorldCat as well, you have these various boxes.
uh... Since a computer is doing this,
uh... it's helpful to
the computer too
search
for
keyword
searches. So
you have the option to say "AND," "OR," or "NOT" in these searches.
If you want to limit your search,
combine terms with an "AND."
If you're trying to broaden your search,
such as music education,
"OR" music teaching,
you would broaden your search that way.
If you want to say
"NOT,"
for instance in mass communications we had a perfect example of
when to use the word "NOT."
In a search like this we said "apple, NOT fruit."
And we got materials about Apple,
the computing company.
But most students probably use that word "AND"
between
And let's say we're trying to find something about Percy Grainger.
Now if I just did a search on Percy Grainger,
I'm going to get 826 results.
that's pretty
wieldy,
a lot to wade through, and
your time is valuable, my time is valuable.
Let's to limit that
a little further,
to make it more useful.
So if we say "Percy Grainger"
"AND"
"free music."
Let's see what comes up here, and we can also, if you notice,
you can request peer reviewed
scholarly journals.
Those are
articles
that
have been sent to other
scholars for review and
for comment before that the articles are published.
A lot of times they will
they also are familiar with
the subject matter and may know of other related research that perhaps should be
included
in the article as well.
Once it passes their approval and the publisher and if any changes have been made
afterwards
as a result of their comments,
uh... than the article is
published.
So as graduate students,
scolarly articles are always good
to try for
to seek out
in your research.
Okay so here are some examples.
Many of these are available in full text. If there are
uh... images or music examples a lot of times they'll be
presented separately just so that's a clearer image.
You can narrow your subject even further
uh... once you're
in this mode
uh... by clicking off to the side.
These are other ways you can
further reduce the number of
entries at a time.
Or if you want a more recent time period,
you can just click
a particular; like if you want the most recent
three years, the 2010 to
2013 would be
easily accessible that way.
So that gives you 21 results, whereas initially we've had about
800.
A lot
more convenient to look through.
If you wanted to
send articles
to RefWorks or
some other citation
program that you can
retrieve later to help with your creating bibliographies,
then you can easily email these to yourself or export them to RefWorks.
(not ruff works but RefWorks right?) RefWorks excuse me.
Not Ruff works, RefWorks
like references.
And the other thing to watch out
or to note, is with
most of our journal databases before you email articles to yourself or
uh... or export,
they often give you the opportunity to select a particular style
for your, for use in your
paper eventually.
For insance, in the EBSCO databases the option that appears
first is the American Medical Association
citation style.
If you do nothing
and just to change that,
it will send you all those references in American Medical Association style.
I doubt that in a music class you'll want to send those article
entries in America Medical Association.
What is the style you prefer? Do you prefer MLA or APA or Chicago.
(You know I grew up doing APA but I know different folks do different things)
so (I don't care)
So John's saying it doesn't matter to him which style you
use.
I would say just be consistent
so that you use the same style once you start.
um He's
familiar with the APA
on some are more comfortable with MLA,
we'll go from there.
Once you've selected it, then you can go ahead and send those on to yourself.