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Opera music guide: Articles and databases

a guide to the library's printed and electronic opera materials

Articles

You can read articles through the Arsca search service by selecting international e-materials.

The number of search results is huge, so you should refine your search. Additional instructions for refining the search.

The picture shows a sample when searching for articles through the search service Arsca.

A-Z databases

The picture shows the search menu of the A-Z database list, through which you can search for databases that suit you.

A-Z database list.

Searching for articles

In Arsca you can search for electronic journal articles. Arsca is a good place to start when you haven’t yet quite decided on a topic for your thesis and/or if you want to see what material your library has in its collections. Once you’ve gotten a clearer picture of your thesis topic, you can narrow down your search and use the advanced search option in the databases.

You can often find full-text articles (in PDF or HTML format) via Arsca or some other database. If the database doesn’t provide a link to the full text (Full Text / PDF / HTML)

You can also search for articles published in foreign scientific journals separately in the original databases if you want:

You can search for Finnish scientific journals and articles in the following databases:

Searching for peer-reviewed articles

A peer-reviewed article is reviewed by an editorial board or other experts of the same field before the article’s publication. Peer-review is seen as a way to make sure that the article is of high scientific standard.

It is possible to limit the search results to only peer-reviewed articles when using search portals, such as Arsca.

 

 

You can perform an advanced search in the EBSCO and ProQuest search portals by checking off the following box:

Music Information Clinic

Contact us if you need help to information retrieval e.g. within the field of music.

Helsinki: lib.siba@uniarts.fi

Kuopio: lib.sibk@uniarts.fi

See also How to search music in Arsca

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