World Music

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Find Articles in Multidisciplinary Databases:

Also known as scholarly articles, peer-reviewed articles are sources that are:

• written by experts in the field
• reviewed by other experts in the field (hence the peer-reviewed)
• intended for an academic audience

Databases contain a feature where you can narrow your results to only peer-reviewed articles.

Additional Online Music Recordings

Forming your Search String

The more complicated your question, the less likely a search engine can understand it. To get the best result, identify keywords and like terms to create a search string.

Example research question: How does video gaming impact interpersonal relationships in teenagers?

Search strings connect your keywords and like terms together for the best results.

Too many results? Use AND and more keywords to narrow results

Brazil AND opera AND history

Too few results? Use OR and like terms to broaden results

(Brazil OR Brazilian) AND (opera OR musical theatre) AND history

OR can also be helpful when searching for names or instruments with multiple spellings or transliterations. For example, here is a search for information on an hourglass-shaped drum, which has different names in Korean and Chinese:

changgo OR changgu OR sŏlchanggo OR seyogo

Can't Find Your Article?

Search Google Scholar

Search Google Scholar with the title of the article that you are trying to access. The results list will display a link to the right to the open access full text. If you're searching on campus (or you've set up Library Links), Google Scholar will also show a "Access at Jenks Library" link if we have access to the full text.

Request the Article through Interlibrary Loan

If you find an article or book that you can't access, don't pay for it! Instead, submit an Interlibrary Loan request, and you'll receive articles within a few days!