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
JSTOR supports a number of helpful advanced search options, including proximity searches (words near each other), singular/plural searches (including irregular plurals), and wildcards.
Google (and Google Scholar!) have a proximity operator as well, but it's undocumented and unsupported. The format is "search term" AROUND(number) "other search term". The search terms must be in quotation marks and AROUND must be in all caps, with no space between it and the parentheses.
If you use this more than once or twice you will probably have to fill out a Captcha, as Google will likely suspect you of being a robot.
