Conducting graduate-level music research in the library

1. Welcome to the Library!
MUS 601
Baumgartner
Sept. 3rd, 2014 6pm

2. Overview
 RefWorks
 Scores/Books
 Articles
 Evaluating
sources
 Creating a
Bibliography
 Work time

3. Setting up RefWorks
 From the Library homepage, click on
RefWorks.
 Under Information for First Time Users,
click on "Login to RefWorks".
 Click on Sign up for a New Account.
 Fill in form on the Left, choosing your own
user name and password.
 You must include an e-mail address.

4. Setting Up Folders in RefWorks
 From the main RefWorks page, click on
New Folder.
 Type in the name of your research (or any
topic you would like).
 Your folder is now created.
 There is no limit to the number of folders
that you can create, so go ahead and
create another one.

5. Format

6. Books/Scores/CDs

7. Books/Scores/CDs

8. Books/Scores/CDs

9. Books/Scores
 What if CSU doesn’t have it?
 OHIOLink
 Interlibrary Loan
 WorldCat

10. Music-Specific Resources
 Grove Music Online (The Oxford
Companion to Music, The Encyclopedia of
Popular Music and The Oxford Dictionary
of Music)
 Thematic catalogs
 Bio-bibliographies
 Collected editions
In Library of Congress
Classification, music materials
are found in the M’s:
M Music (scores)
ML Music Literature
(about music)
MT Music Instruction
and Study

11. Exporting Books/Scores to RefWorks
 Search the SCHOLAR catalog.
 Select items by clicking on the Save
Citation button or by checking items in
the Mark Citation column.
 When you are finished searching, click
on the View Saved button.

12. Exporting Books/Scores to RefWorks
 Select End-Note/RefWorks under
Format of List.
 Select Local Disk under Send List To.
 Mark the citations to export under Your
List of Saved Records.
 Click on the Submit button.
 Click on Save File in the Opening
export.txt box. Save the document as
a Text (.txt) File.

13. Exporting Books/Scores to RefWorks
 Go to RefWorks.
 Under References, click on Import.
 For Import Filter/Data Source, select
Cleveland State University.
 For Database, select Cleveland State
University [innovative interfaces
(Endnote/RefWorks Format)].

14. Exporting Books/Scores to RefWorks
 Under Import Data from the following
Text File, click on Browse to locate the
file, select the file and
 click on Open, and then click on
Import.
 On the next screen, click on View Last
Imported Folder.

15. Exporting Books/Scores to RefWorks
 Click on Edit to add missing
information if necessary.
 Select citations, select the folder
where you want to add then and then
remove them from the Last Imported
Folder.

16. Articles/Reviews

17. Articles/Reviews

18. Articles/Reviews

19. Articles/Reviews
 Evaluate your sources
 Who wrote this? What are his/her
credentials?
 What is this article about? Look at the
abstract and subject headings.
 When was this published?
 Where was this published? What kind of
journal is this published in? Is it peer-reviewed?
 Why was this published? What is the
underlying purpose of this article?

20. Articles/Reviews
 Evaluate your sources
 Who wrote this? What are his/her credentials?
 CLUES:
 What else has he/she published?
 Google search
 Affiliations

21. Articles/Reviews
 Evaluate your sources
 What is this article about?
 CLUES:
 Title
 Abstract
 Subject headings

22. Articles/Reviews
 Evaluate your sources
 When was this published?
 CLUES:
 Date

23. Articles/Reviews
 Evaluate your sources
 Where was this published? What kind of
journal is this published in? Is it peer-reviewed?
 CLUES:
 Other articles published in database
 Publisher information in database
 Google search/publisher website
 Peer-reviewed? What are standards of publication?

24. Articles/Reviews
 Evaluate your sources
 Why was this published? What is the
underlying purpose of this article?
 CLUES:
 Scholarly language
 Presence of advertisements
 Flashy or colorful
 Length
 Review of a performance or recording?

25. Evaluating Sources Activity
 If you haven’t chosen a topic for your
assignment yet, choose a tentative one for
this exercise.
 Use the music databases to find an article
and evaluate it using the standards we just
discussed. In your evaluations, assume
you are using the article to support class-related
research.
 Ask Ms. Mandi questions if you need to!

26. Creating a Bibliography in RefWorks
 Click the button for Create Bibliography or
click the tab for Bibliography and then click
on Create.
 Select an output style--the style guide that
you require, or a specific journal.
 Under Format a Bibliography from a List of
References, select the File type (probably
Word for Windows).

27. Creating a Bibliography in RefWorks
 For the drop-down menu for References to
Include, select one of your folders to use for
the bibliography.
 Click Create Bibliography.
 A small window opens in the lower right
corner of your screen with a download
prompt.
 Follow the click here prompt to view your
bibliography.
 Check the bibliography for errors and then
save the bibliography. Copy and paste to the
end of your paper, unless you are using
Write-N-Cite.

28. Questions?
Mandi Goodsett
a.goodsett@csuohio.ed
u
216-802-3362