Google Scholar can be a useful searching tool, particularly when it checks against the electronic full text holdings at FSU. This link requires you to log in with your FSU e-mail information-- but it's worth it!
Interlibrary Loan (ILL) is a service where a student, faculty, or staff of Florida State University may obtain books or obtain photocopies of articles from other institutions.
Great first stop for composer, genre, period, instrument information and more. Article bibliographies get you to the next step in your research. Includes Grove Music and other relevant titles.
includes Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd ed., Grove Opera, and more
Please note: Oxford Reference only allows access for 5 FSU users at one time. If you are being asked for a username and password, please try to access the database later.
Subjects: Archaeology Art & Architecture Bilingual dictionaries Classical studies Encyclopedias English Dictionaries and Thesauri History Language reference Law Linguistics Literature Media studies Medicine and health Music Names studies Performing arts Philosophy Quotations Religion Science and technology Social sciences Society and culture
Subjects with full text: Philosophy Law Religion Political Science Economics and Finance Psychology
Tutorials: Take a Tour (PowerPoint, PDF, and video available)
Abbreviation: oso Vendor: Oxford University Press Subjects: *General / Multi-Subject Type: E-Book Collections, Indexes / Catalogs
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Here are a few tips and tricks that have made many students and faculty say "OOOOH! Do that again!" Or "hey, that's cool! What is THAT?" You may not use all of them, but you may be able to use a few. Enjoy!
Free web tools
Free web tools (with pay options for more storage):
Plug-ins/extensions for internet browsers make grabbing citations and downloading documents (articles, etc.) easy.
Plug-ins for Microsoft Word and LibreOffice make citing references so easy while writing papers.
Coordinating applications for tablets make accessing the articles stored easy (ZotPad for iOS, Android, and desktop; https://www.zotero.org/support/mobile for more).
Forums contain a wealth of assistance because of the thousands of Zotero users worldwide.
Storage options:
300 MB: Free
2 GB: $20/year (equal to $1.67/month)
6 GB: $60/year (equal to $5.00/month)
Unlimited: $120 (equal to $10.00/month)
If you are a Dropbox (or other cloud storage) user, you can save articles to that cloud storage, then provide links to that file in your Zotero entries—so you don’t necessarily need to purchase Zotero storage (at least for a while).