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Assignment 4

An issue from your field that concerns you; or general interests

minimum 5 academic sources for your topic on Assignment 4 (6 - 8 page journal article in your field) from newsmagazines, newspapers, scholarly journals, and books (or chapters from books)
MLA format Purdue’s OWL

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Handouts

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USC Libraries Resources

ProQuest Research Library
to get news articles, scholarly journal articles, etc. for your assignment; full-text depends on subscription; citation of reference is provided
CQ Library
background information of your research assignment (topic review report); full-text is available; Citation of reference is provided
LexisNexis Academic
Database of full text online news, business, financial, legal, medical, biographical, government and domestic and international newspaper resources; Citation is provided;
Wilson OmniFile
Check "Social Science full-text" and "OmniFile Full Text Mega"
Music Index Online
Index of nearly 900 domestic and international journals in music. Full-text for some articles available through JSTOR. 1973-present.
CSA platform
search five databases: ERIC, Communication Abstracts, PsycINFO, Social Services Abstracts, and Sociological Abstracts

If the link is not working, please refresh your internet browser, go to "specified databases" and choose above databases.

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Music Databases

International Index to Music Periodicals
Scholarly and popular articles in music. Abstracts included for all citations. Full-text available for more recent articles. 1996-present.
RILM: Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale
Abstracts of international articles, books, festschriften, dissertations, and conference proceedings in over 200 languages.
Music Index Online
Index of nearly 900 domestic and international journals in music. Full-text for some articles available through JSTOR. 1973-present.

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Sample search

1.Search ProQuest or CQ Library for the overview of your interested topic, e.g. the topic is "the internet's impact on the future of music industry", we can just search "music industry" AND "internet"

2. Search strategies and techniques

Use "*" to truncate your keywords and get more results of your keywords;
Use "AND" to connect your keywords in order to narrow down your search and get what you are looking for;
Use quotation marks if you are searching a phrase;
Search within "Abstract", which will help you find what you are looking for;
Always pay attention to "suggested topics" or "subjects", which might give you good search queries;

3. Choose your interested articles, use "find it @USC" to get full-text (email the articles to you) and create a reference list in the required format (MLA)

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