How To Find Literature about Music

Prerequisites

Are you about to embark on an essay, dissertation, or piece of extended research? Before you start any academic work, it is necessary to have a sound grasp of your topic and its context. This session will give you strategies for finding and evaluating published literature so you can get a 'big picture' view of your topic. This is a taught session which will end with a further 15 minutes of searching in your own time (with help at hand, if needed).

• University Staff & Students in Music
• UL Readers with an interest in this field
• Further details regarding Cambridge University Library's eligibility criteria are available

• Familiarity with online resources, including the Newton catalogue and ordinary search engines
• You should bring an essay question, or a research topic area with you to the session

Number of sessions: 1

• To speed up how and where you find music literature
• To find quality academic sources for your research
• To learn searching strategies and techniques

Presentations, demonstrations and practicals

• Course slides
• Course handout
• Searching for music literature (external link from UW Music Library and University of Washington)
• Literature search grid

• To enter the University Library you must have either a current University of Cambridge ID card or a current Reader's Ticket. For more information and to apply for a Reader's Ticket, please see the Admissions webpages

One session of 60 minutes

A number of times per year

• Music
• Research Skills