In this IssueJongleur
Newsletter
of the Mills Music Library
University of Wisconsin-Madison Edited by Steve Sundell with generous assistance from Geri Laudati and Ryan Sedgwick Published twice yearly in the Fall and Spring Semesters Mills Music Library 728 State Street Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1494 (608) 263-1884 music.library.wisc.edu Email Mills Music Library ______________ Web Design by Nicole Saylor |
 The library has recently inaugurated a new resource called Find It to help patrons locate the full text of periodical articles online. Find It provides a link from a citation in a journal database (like RILM, IIMP and many others) to the full text of the article, if it's available. When the full text is not available online, Find It provides a series of additional options to help locate it. These options include a direct search in MadCat and a link to Library Express where the article can be requested from another library. Additionally, there are options for exporting information into bibliographic citation software and getting help from library staff. Another component of Find It is called Citation Linker. This feature offers the option of entering a journal title or other specific information about a known article into a search window and then the Find It software will locate the article online. The Citation Linker feature can be found on the MadCat opening screen, on the library web site Journals page, the E-journals page, and on the Library Express page. Bottom line, Find It is a nifty, easy-to-use feature that takes some of the pain out of searching for the online text of journal articles.  Music Index and JSTORThe print version of Music Index has been serving the music researcher since its inception in 1949. In its electronic form, Music Index first began as a stand-alone CD-ROM product and subsequently became the web-based index we know today, covering the years 1979 – 2004. Historically, Music Index has offered indexing to hundreds of international music journals -- nothing fancy, no abstracts, just very reliable citations with intuitive subject terms. This past summer, Music Index made a giant leap in its service by offering a direct link from its online citation to the full text of the article in JSTOR. JSTOR, as we noted in the fall 2003 Jongleur, provides the full text of thirty-two scholarly journals in music. This new feature represents a genuine boon in the effectiveness of Music Index as it facilitates locating significant articles for music research. Index to Printed Music (IPM)The Index to Printed Music: Collections and Series is an electronic resource designed to locate individual pieces of music printed in standard scholarly editions, including anthologies, monuments of music, and composers' collected works. IPM indexes every piece in a collection. The core of the resource is drawn from Collected Editions, Historical Series & Sets & Monuments of Music: A Bibliography, by George R. Hill and Norris L. Stephens (Berkeley: Fallen Leaf Press, 1997) and currently contains 135,000 index entries, 20,000 name entries and 9,300 citations. By 2007, IPM aims to incorporate Hill and Stephen's entire text. IPM is a product of Biblioline, the same vendor that provides local access to RILM and RIPM. Regular users of these databases will recognize the familiar search interface and notice that IPM's functionality is very similar. The Find It feature is enabled in IPM offering an easy link to MadCat. RETURN TO TOP |