Music

• Make sure your sources qualify as scholarly! One common mistake is using book or recording review articles or other types of short articles that do not have much depth or detail.
• Use the evaluation skills we practiced last class. Evaluating sources using the points in the two handouts (attached below) is a starting point to help you think about your source's strengths and weaknesses.
• Make sure you don't accidentally plagiarize! Be sure to summarize in your own original words. If you have questions about plagiarism, see the library's plagiarism website.

These websites offer advice on doing annotated bibliographies and examples. Please note that they are not in Chicago style and there are significant differences between them and Dr. Tones' assignment. 

You are required to cite and annotate three scholarly books and three scholarly articles.

Suggested Strategy:

1. Starting points:
   • Your Textbook - See the For Further Reading section on page A23 for lists of important books on each topic.
   • Grove Music Online - Look up your topic here for a detailed overview.  Each topic also has a further reading section at the end.
2. Get a bigger picture: Books
   • Catalogue
3. Examine some of the puzzle pieces: Articles
   • Article Searches:
     • ProQuest Music Periodicals (International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP))
     • JSTOR
     • Project Muse
     • Academic Search Complete
   • Known Articles: using citations from any sources you have already found or Grove Music Online, check to see if KPU library has access to that journal in the Journal Titles search.
4. Did I miss anything? Summon
   • Summon

Too Many Sources?

• Review what you have found and pick the best sources
  • Include sources by important authors (identified by your textbook, for example).
  • You may want to use a mix of older and newer sources
  • You may want to narrow down your topic

Too Few Sources?

• Obtain sources from other libraries
  • Search UBC's library catalogue for books, and then place interlibrary loan requests
  • Obtain articles through interlibrary loan through the article databases
  • Try searching additional databases (Academic Search Complete, Project Muse...)
• Try some different search strategies
  • search for the names of important authors
  • review the bibliographies of sources you've already found to see what those articles are citing
  • use truncation (* symbol) to broaden your search
  • try searching Google Scholar
• Consider broadening your topic
• And of course, don't hesitate to ask for help at the Research Help desk or contact me directly!

If you found a great source, but KPU Library doesn't have it, you can obtain it for free through Interlibrary Loan.  The form you have to fill out is not very user friendly and it's easy to miss the final step to submit your request. Don't hesitate to ask me or another librarian to show you how to do it.

Exploring other libraries is also encouraged! You can obtain a COPPUL card that will allow you to borrow books from almost all of the academic libraries in Western Canada.

Format the citations in your bibliography in Chicago style, using the bibliography (not the notes) format.

For sources that are not music specific, please see the KPU Library's Chicago Style Quick Guide or the Library's online Chicago Manual of Style subscription for instructions and examples:

• Books and ebooks: pages 1-2 / 14.69 - 14.169
• Book chapters: page 3 / 14.111 - 14.117
• Articles, from databases and the Internet: page 4 / 14.170 - 14.217

When conducting research it is important to distinguish between journal articles and magazine articles. Journal articles are typically referred to as "scholarly" or "refereed" while magazine articles are usually considered "popular" or "sensational". Always know which type is acceptable for your research.

Download the document below and use it to help you evaluate which of the sources you have found are the highest quality.