LIBRARY GUIDE TO COM 3603 - Critical Approaches to Popular Music

Music Index
Includes articles about music, musicians, and the music industry.; also includes book reviews, obituaries, news periodicals. How to export to RefWorks

Communication & Mass Media Complete
This resource "offers cover-to-cover (“core”) indexing and abstracts for more than 550 journals, and selected (“priority”) coverage of nearly 200 more, for a combined coverage of 737 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for over 440 journals."

Project MUSE
Project Muse provides full-text access to the content from over 400 scholarly journals in the humanities and the social sciences. How to export to RefWorks

PsycINFO
Need articles in psychology or counseling? Use PsycINFO! It's a great resource and is published by the American Psychological Association. How to export to RefWorks

Sociological Abstracts
This database abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Coverage: 1960 to present. How to export to RefWorks

Google Scholar
You can check the availability of article full text if you use our link to Google Scholar, which will ask you to log in with your OU NetID. How to export to RefWorks  

Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
Is this journal peer-reviewed or refereed? Ulrich's will tell you!

Oxford Music Online
A peerless compendium of information about music and musicians of all periods and places. Limit 4 users. Please logout when done.

Credo Reference
Provides online access to encyclopedias, almanacs, and other reference tools.

• Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music
• Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music
• Harvard Dictionary of Music

Contemporary World Music
Delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent. Contains important genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.

NAXOS Music Library
A collection of classical music available online. It includes the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues of over 262,000 tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. 8 concurrent users at one time. If the limit has been reached, you may see a login screen. This indicates that you should try again later. Instructions for setting up the Naxos Music Library mobile app can be found here.  Please refer to option 1 or 2.

Library Catalog
Use the catalog to find books, videos, recordings, and goverment documents we have at the library. Do a Boolean Keyword search of "music videos" to find these titles in the Library Catalog:

• Gender and Rock, by M. Kearney, 2017; Oxford University press, 3rd floor library, ML 3918 .R63 K42 2017
• Digital Music Videos, by S. Shaviro, 2017. Rutgers University Press. ebook
• We used to wait: music videos and creative literacy, by R. Kinskey, 2014. MIT Press, 3rd floor library, PN 1992.8 .M87 K57 2014
• Sexualization of girls and girlhood, edited by E. Zurbriggen & T. A. Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2013. 3rd floor library, HQ 27.5 .S494 2013

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Keyword Searching.pdf
Popular vs Scholarly Sources.pdf
Internet Evaluation.pdf