Accounts
WBIS 188 -- Bruni -- 20th century Musician or Musical group
Course Specific Resources
Quick Poll--(used during class):
Library session feedback (for after library session)
Start with Search@UW
Type the name of your musician or group in the search box, and choose 'By subject' to the left of the name.
This will search for items where your musician or group is the "subject" of the article or book.
Reference-Online
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale's Virtual Reference Library is a collection of electronic reference books. It contains popular culture
Encyclopedias that have great information on many comic book characters.
Film and Television Literature Index with Full Text
Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text is the definitive online tool for film and television research,
providing full text for more than 120 journals, books, movie reviews from 1914 to the present and over 36,000
images.
Business Source Premier provides full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than
1,100 peer-reviewed titles.
Academic Search Complete contains full text, indexing and abstracts, monographs and reports from more
than 13,000 publications.
Books
Books in the library catalog dealing with 20th century musical groups
Books in the library catalog dealing with Rock groups
Books in the library catalog dealing with 20th century popular jazz
eBooks-general information
To search for eBooks, you can go to the Database box on the library homepage and select Ebsco eBooks.
You can also go to the main library homepage and enter your search. Limit search by 'Books and Media'
--next to search box. On the results screen, limit on the left by selecting 'Oshkosh Online Resources.'
Images
In Google Images you can search for a word or phrase. When the results are displayed, you can then choose to limit the results by usage rights. First, click on Search Tools, then on the dropped down titled, Usage rights. See screenshot below.
Websites
A mega-library catalog containing more than 42 million records contributed by 15,000 libraries around
the world. Once you find something, feel free to submit an Interlibrary loan if we don't own it at UWO.
Inter-library Loan
If you would like to request an item we don't have, you can request it via inter-library loan. Go to the library
homepage, select Accounts, then choose to sign in to Inter-library loan.
- Login and place an ILL request. (looking for items to request, try looking at WorldCat)
Citations
Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) MLA Formatting and Style Guide
The Purdue OWL site is a comprehensive MLA reference tool, with instructions on in-text citations, works cited entries, and a sample paper.
The MLA Style Center is an official website of the MLA. It provides guidelines for formatting papers, a quick guide to works cited entries, and answers to frequently asked questions.