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IDS 101: The Art of Musical Invective: Articles/Databases

How to Find Music Reviews in Academic Search Complete

Academic Search Complete (ASC) is a full-text interdisciplinary database that can filter to peer-reviewed and full-text literature. This is great resource for starting your research.

If you are looking for an article in a specific magazine, such as Rolling Stone, select (SO) Journal Name in your search.

Then click on the "Show More" link to go to another screen, where you can select your Document Type, such as Music Review

How To Find Articles

If an article is not available in full-text, click the "Find It!" button.  Find it at Willamette

This will check if we have access through a different database and our print collection. 

If we do not have access, you will be given an option to order it through Interlibrary Loan (ILL).  Fill out the form and click "Submit." It takes about 2 business days to get articles.

Streaming Music Databases

Useful Databases for this Course

Boolean Searches

What is Peer-Review?

Peer-review is an evaluation process in which qualified individuals within specialized field of study reviews literature before it becomes published.  This process helps keep standards held by the profession, improves the quality of work being published, and provides credibility & reliability to published work & authors publishing the work. The 3-minute video below describes and discusses the importance of peer-review and its process.

(NCSU video, 3 min.)

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