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IPM. The Index to Printed Music: Collections & Series is used for finding individual pieces of music printed in standard scholarly editions.

Encyclopedias and Indexes - Music - Library Guides - Penn State

A fully-searchable online encyclopedia that covers all aspects of the history of music, with articles about composers (including lists of works), performers, ...

Encyclopedias and Indexes - Myths, Fairy Tales and Folklore

A guide for students and researchers interested in the study of Mythology, Fairy Tales and Folklore. Reference to the rescue!

Reference Sources: Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Handbooks, and ...

... encyclopedias, handbooks, and indexes. Almanacs. Almanacs are not usually used for extensive research , but are good for looking up specific ...

Index | information retrieval | Britannica

Undoubtedly the major adjunct of the modern encyclopaedia is its index. As early as 1614 the bishop of Petina, Antonio Zara, included a type of ...

Encyclopedias - Secondary OSLIS

How do I use a print general encyclopedia? To find information, look for it alphabetically by subject or consult the index in the back of the volume or the ...

Encyclopedias - LiLI.org

When consulting an encyclopedia, remember to search the index as well as the alphabetically arranged articles which make up the text. Much information embedded ...

Index (table Of Contents) - Encyclopedia.com

1. an alphabetical list of names, subjects, etc., with references to the places where they occur, typically found at the end of a book.

Encyclopedia - Wikipedia

An encyclopedia (American English) or encyclopaedia (British English) is a reference work or compendium providing summaries of knowledge, either general or ...

Reference Sources: Encyclopedias - LibGuides at Taft College

Encyclopedias are often called tertiary sources, but sometimes they can be secondary sources or primary sources. They compile information from ...

Module 4: Indexing - ORE Online - Ohio Library Council

Indexes are finding tools that help you find whole works, parts within works, topics within an individual work, or quality websites.

Encyclopedia | Definition, History, Examples, & Facts | Britannica

Today most people think of an encyclopaedia as a multivolume compendium of all available knowledge, complete with maps and a detailed index, as well as numerous ...

LibGuides: Reference Books: Encyclopedias A to Z - Research Guides

This is an excellent, scholarly alternative to Wikipedia. It allows you to search back-of-the-book indexes and article titles in thousands of reference books.

Encyclopedias and Other Reference Sources - Gleeson Library

Subject Encyclopedias: Arts and Humanities · Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism · Dictionary of Literary Biography · Encyclopedia of the Bible and ...

Index Tips - Secondary Sources - LibGuides at Drake University Law ...

Where is the index? Indexes are typically found as one or more individual volumes at the end of a set (such as with the pictured CJS indexes) or ...

Introduction to Indexes - Tutorials - LibGuides at Santa Fe College

This video tutorial will demonstrate how to use indexes of books to locate information about a topic. Indexes can help you quickly find ...

Encyclopedias - Evaluating Resources - Academic Guides

Identify encyclopedias · Two titles: You will see the title of the encyclopedia entry and the title of the encyclopedia. · In: The word in precedes the title of ...

Encyclopedias & Dictionaries - General Reference at Princeton ...

Encyclopedias contain full coverage of information about an area of knowledge. They can be general or can cover a specific subject, and contain alphabetically ...

Indexing & Abstracting - Encyclopedia - MDPI

Encyclopedia, an international, peer-reviewed Open Access journal.

Encyclopedias/Reference tools | NC State University Libraries

If you are not sure which encyclopedia might contain an article on your topic, type it into Reference Universe for suggestions. This tool indexes thousands of ...