MUS 601: Approaches to Music Research

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Welcome to the Library! MUS 601 Baumgartner Sept. 3 rd , 2014 6pm

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Conducting graduate-level music research in the library

Transcript of MUS 601: Approaches to Music Research

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Welcome to the Library!

MUS 601

Baumgartner

Sept. 3rd, 2014 6pm

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Overview RefWorks Scores/Books Articles

Evaluating sources

Creating a Bibliography

Work time

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Setting up RefWorks

From the Library homepage, click on RefWorks.

Under Information for First Time Users, click on "Login to RefWorks".

Click on Sign up for a New Account. Fill in form on the Left, choosing your

own user name and password. You must include an e-mail address.

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Setting Up Folders in RefWorks

From the main RefWorks page, click on New Folder.

Type in the name of your research (or any topic you would like).

Your folder is now created. There is no limit to the number of

folders that you can create, so go ahead and create another one.

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Format

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Books/Scores/CDs

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Books/Scores/CDs

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Books/Scores/CDs

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Books/Scores

What if CSU doesn’t have it? OHIOLink Interlibrary Loan WorldCat

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Music-Specific Resources Grove Music Online (The Oxford

Companion to Music, The Encyclopedia of Popular Music and The Oxford Dictionary of Music)

Thematic catalogs Bio-bibliographies Collected editions

In Library of Congress Classification, music materials are found in the M’s:

M     Music (scores)ML    Music Literature (about music)MT    Music Instruction and Study

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Exporting Books/Scores to RefWorks

Search the SCHOLAR catalog.Select items by clicking on the Save Citation button or by checking items in the Mark Citation column.

When you are finished searching, click on the View Saved button.

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Exporting Books/Scores to RefWorks

Select End-Note/RefWorks under Format of List.

Select Local Disk under Send List To.

Mark the citations to export under Your List of Saved Records.

Click on the Submit button.Click on Save File in the Opening export.txt box. Save the document as a Text (.txt) File.

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Exporting Books/Scores to RefWorks

Go to RefWorks.Under References, click on Import.For Import Filter/Data Source, select Cleveland State University.

For Database, select Cleveland State University [innovative interfaces (Endnote/RefWorks Format)].

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Exporting Books/Scores to RefWorks

Under Import Data from the following Text File, click on Browse to locate the file, select the file and

click on Open, and then click on Import.

On the next screen, click on View Last Imported Folder.

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Exporting Books/Scores to RefWorks

Click on Edit to add missing information if necessary.

Select citations, select the folder where you want to add then and then remove them from the Last Imported Folder.

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Articles/Reviews

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Articles/Reviews

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Articles/Reviews

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Articles/Reviews Evaluate your sources

Who wrote this? What are his/her credentials?

What is this article about? Look at the abstract and subject headings.

When was this published? Where was this published? What kind

of journal is this published in? Is it peer-reviewed?

Why was this published? What is the underlying purpose of this article?

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Articles/Reviews Evaluate your sources

Who wrote this? What are his/her credentials?

CLUES: What else has he/she published? Google search Affiliations

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Articles/Reviews Evaluate your sources

What is this article about? CLUES:

Title Abstract Subject headings

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Articles/Reviews Evaluate your sources

When was this published? CLUES:

Date

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Articles/Reviews Evaluate your sources

Where was this published? What kind of journal is this published in? Is it peer-reviewed?

CLUES: Other articles published in database Publisher information in database Google search/publisher website Peer-reviewed? What are standards of

publication?

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Articles/Reviews Evaluate your sources

Why was this published? What is the underlying purpose of this article?

CLUES: Scholarly language Presence of advertisements Flashy or colorful Length Review of a performance or recording?

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Evaluating Sources Activity If you haven’t chosen a topic for your

assignment yet, choose a tentative one for this exercise.

Use the music databases to find an article and evaluate it using the standards we just discussed. In your evaluations, assume you are using the article to support class-related research.

Ask Ms. Mandi questions if you need to!

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Creating a Bibliography in RefWorks

Click the button for Create Bibliography or click the tab for Bibliography and then click on Create.

Select an output style--the style guide that you require, or a specific journal.

Under Format a Bibliography from a List of References, select the File type (probably Word for Windows).

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Creating a Bibliography in RefWorks

For the drop-down menu for References to Include, select one of your folders to use for the bibliography.

Click Create Bibliography. A small window opens in the lower right corner

of your screen with a download prompt. Follow the click here prompt to view your

bibliography. Check the bibliography for errors and then save

the bibliography. Copy and paste to the end of your paper, unless you are using Write-N-Cite.

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Questions?Mandi Goodsett

[email protected]

216-802-3362