Musicians Institute Library: Research Methods Class Guide: Useful Links

Useful Links

Guide to Citations
Here is the library's guide to citations created by the Director of Library Services. If you have questions about creating citations or need help with them, please contact the Director.
Guide to Academic Writing
A guide written by Casey Burgess, the Librarian, on how to approach writing a good paper.
Library Catalog
Musician Institute Library's Catalog has over 10,000 items for you to view and peruse. Please email burgessc@mi.edu for information regarding books or checkouts.
Library Database List
Library of Congress Classification Schedule
"Listed on [this webpage] are the letters and titles of the main classes of the Library of Congress Classification. Click on any class to view an outline of its subclasses." (Library of Congress).
MI Library's Inter-Library Loan Form
If you would like to loan an item from another library around the world, please fill out this form. There may be a small shipping fee associated with it.

JSTOR Music This link opens in a new window
The JSTOR Music Collection contains thirty-three leading titles in the field of musicology, music theory, ethnomusicology, and music education. Titles available in the JSTOR Music Collection are also included in a subscription to the Arts and Sciences III collection. Date coverage spans from 1844 to 2014. Much of the content is in English but German, French, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, and Dutch are also represented in journal coverage. (Please uncheck, “Include links to external content.”)
Overdrive eBooks & Audio Books This link opens in a new window
A selection of eBooks and Audio books; on music instructional methods, studies, exercises, printed music, performance, music history and criticism, composition, motion picture and film music, lyric writing, music analysis, appreciation, and social aspects, biographies, sound engineers, music production, recording executives and producers, design, marketing, branding, and more.
Oxford Grove Music Online This link opens in a new window
Oxford Grove Music Online is a gateway offering users the ability to access and cross-search multiple music reference resources in one location. With Grove Music Online as its cornerstone, Oxford Music Online also contains The Oxford Companion to Music, which offers more than 8,000 articles on composers, performers, conductors, instruments and notation, forms and genres, and individual works; and The Oxford Dictionary of Music, 2nd edition, which supplements Grove's more-extensive articles with content geared toward undergraduates and general users. Both of these sources are included in subscriptions to Grove Music Online.
Worldcat This link opens in a new window
WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services. WorldCat libraries are dedicated to providing access to their resources on the Web, where most people start their search for information.