DATABASES AND INDEXES TUTORIAL

MUS 7800

 

I.                    Finding the databases:

a.       There are many ways to get to music databases.  From the Music Resources web page there are these entry points:

 

 

b.      From the LSU Libraries homepage, click here for access to the databases:

 

                

 

II.                RILM-CONTENT

a.       Includes the following (from the RILM website, not found on the database homepage:

b.      All scholarly works are included (articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, dissertations, Festschriften, e-publications, films and videos, iconographies, critical commentaries to complete works, ethnographic recordings, conference proceedings, reviews, etc.). Concert reviews, recording notes, pedagogical manuals, etc. are included if they are of scholarly interest. Areas of coverage encompass historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, librarianship, performance practice and notation, theory and analysis, pedagogy, liturgy, dance, criticism, music therapy, and interdisciplinary studies on music and various other fields, including literature, dramatic arts, visual arts, acoustics, aesthetics, anthropology, sociology, linguistics and semiotics, mathematics, philosophy, physiology, psychology, and physics. The number of records published annually has increased from 2,532 in 1967 to approximately 20,000 records.

c.       List of journals found at http://www.rilm.org/coverage.html (Click on “all journals, 1989-2003”)

 

III.               RILM-Searching

a.       Three types of searches

                                                               i.      Basic

           

                                                             ii.      Advanced

                                                            iii.      Expert

1.      See bottom of this page for plurals, truncation, wildcards, combining search terms (Boolean), and adjacent terms (proximity) help

 

b.      Now for a SEARCH! 

      On the “expert” search page, you'll be able to do  Boolean queries like this:

((oboe or bassoon) and (clarinet or saxophone)) and (trio or duet)

      This search is basically to find trios or duets for a double reed instrument and a single reed instrument.  Here is the resulting page:

 

                                                               i.      Look at #3

1.      It is an ARTICLE in a BOOK – notice that its is a BOOK format citation rather than a JOURNAL format citation

                                                             ii.      Look at #11

 

1.      This arrow shows that LSU OWNS this journal

2.      This is the journal citation

3.      This shows that this represents a record review

 

                                                          iii.      NOTE #13 – IT SHOWS NO HOLDINGS IN LSU!!!!

There is no such notation here
 

This notation indicates that LSU owns this item
 
                        

                                                                                                            

 

 

 

 

This is a problem with the RILM database.  YOU CANNOT BELIEVE THIS DATABASE'S ASSESSMENT OF WHETHER LSU OWNS AN ITEM.  After finding items that you are interested in seeing, CHECK THE ONLINE CATALOG before you dismiss (or order through ILL) those that do not show “holdings”.

 

 

1.      With the same search, we change the document type to “DISSERTATION,” and we get 7 “hits”

2.      Note that you can limit by publication year or language as well

 

                                                           iv.      Each record has a field called “Libraries that own this item”

 

If you click on this, you see which libraries subscribe to this journal or own this item:

 

 

                                                             v.      Note that you can SAVE YOUR SEARCH if you wish to return to it later

c.       What to do with RESULTS:

                                                               i.      You can “MARK” a record here:

                                                             ii.      Go to list of MARKED records by clicking here:

                                                            iii.      Then you can EMAIL or print or export (to a diskette)

IV.              Music Index

a.       Click on “EXPERT SEARCH

b.      Then “MI  HOME”

c.       The, go to “ABOUT MI” for coverage report

                                                               i.      Within “about” click on “Publishers of Music Index” (1st link)

and then “international music periodicals”

Shows information about each of the journals in the database

 

d.      Return to Music Index's Home page ( http://www.hppmusicindex.com/brs/hpplogin.jsp )

e.       Choose “Basic”, then look at “subject list         

                                                               i.      Like the AUTHORIZED HEADINGS in the online catalog

                                                             ii.      See the FIRST ONE under “A”

f.         

                        This shows that, instead of using “A & R men” in a subject search, you'd find more using “RECORD                             PRODUCERS”

 

g.       EXPERT SEARCH

                                                               i.      You have four options to consider when performing and expert search:

  

           

 

 

 

                                                             ii.      Now try our Boolean search from the RILM discussion: 

((oboe or bassoon) and (clarinet or saxophone)) and (trio or duet)  

                                                            iii.      98 “hits”—here is one examples:

 

 

 

 

 

                                                           iv.      Notice:

1.      Character of articles (most have lists of works)

2.      No “holdings” information

3.      No ABSTRACT

                                                             v.      search:  brit$ spears (79 hits)

                                                           vi.      search:  Bocelli (50)

                                                          vii.      search:   kiri te kanawa (211)

 

V.                 What do we learn from this:

                  RILM and Music Index  handle DIFFERENT JOURNALS, and you SEARCH DIFFERENTLY in               each database

VI.              LEXUS NEXUS

a.       There are several “versions” of Lexus Nexus

                       

 

 

b.      Generally you want “academic”

c.       What is it good for?

                                                               i.      Current Events

                                                             ii.      Information generally found in the news

d.      Use the Guided Search

 

                              

e.       Let's say I wondered this:  “Did Bunker Clark Die?” (University of Kansas musicologist)

                                                               i.      Choose “US news” in “Select a News Category”

                                                             ii.      Choose “Kansas News Sources” in “All Available Documents”

 

 

 

                                                            iii.      Choose “KWIC” (Key Words In Context) to see if it is what you want

 

 

f.        Or this:  When did BRSym play at Carnegie?

                                                               i.      US News

                                                             ii.      Northeast Regional sources

                                                            iii.      Search: “Baton Rouge Symphony” and “Carnegie”

 

 

 

VII.           Academic Search Premiere  Not specifically music, but many music citations available

a.       Look at Search page options

                                                               i.      See “Publications”

 

1.      By Subject & Description

a.       “Music” in search box

 

 

 

 

                                                             ii.      Images- search for “Pavarotti”

                        RESULTS:

 

 

                                                            iii.      If you want to keep track of your results you can use  Add to FOLDER

 

 

 

 

 

b.      Here is what the folder looks like, and all the options you have here:

 

 

VIII.         netlibrary

a.       This is an ONLINE BOOK LIBRARY.

b.      Search: STRAVINSKY AND THE RITE OF SPRING

 

Then you get this:

 

 

 

And you see THIS:

 

 

 

IX.              Web of Knowledge

a.       Web of Knowledge is multifunctional

b.      Here is a diagram of MY ARTICLE and its “parents” and “children:

 

On the Web of Knowledge, you can find “My Article,” you can find a list of which articles are cited by “My Article” as well as a list of what articles have cited “My Article.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

c.       Search KUYPERRUSHING in Cited Reference Index

 

                       

 

 

d.      See “Cited by” and “Cited IN”

 

 

Then, the full record shows the “Cited Records” (I had 16 items in my bibliography) and

“Times Cited” (6 other articles have cited me)

 

 

 

This allows the researcher to discover a FULL HISTORY of a topic.

 

 

THAT'S ALL I GOT FOR YA!  GOOD LUCK!