Audio Engineering Resources

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1 Audio Engineering Resources

2 Audio Engineering resources Books, DVDs, CDs & print journals Search for these in the JMC Academy Library Catalogue click on Library Catalogue link on Student Portal Look in these sections for Audio subjects Audio engineering MIDI 780 Some recommendations to get you started Practical recording techniques by Bruce Bartlett BAR Sound reinforcement handbook by Gary Davis DAV The art of sound reproduction by John Watkinson WAT The MIDI manual by David Miles Huber HUB Print journals Audiotechnology Periodicals section Online resources Audio Engineering Society Papers from the only professional society exclusively for audio technology. EBSCO For academic journals and more Follow the link on the Library Catalogue homepage Sound on Sound Recording technology magazine Please contact the librarian for remote access usernames and passwords. Some other websites and online journals Journal of the Art of Record Production Pro Tools Training Record Production Pensado s Place Mix Magazine Online Australian Screen Guild Film Sound Sound Bible Sound Clips Bobby Owsinski s Blog

3 Search tips These tips will save you time when you are researching. Most search pages will have a search help section; read that to find other ways to search efficiently. Sometimes the symbols for truncation, wild cards and proximity searching vary between databases so the search help page will also tell you which symbols that database uses. Truncation What: Replacing the end of a word with an * or?, to find words with the same beginning, but with varying endings. How: Type the root of the word, and place the * or? at the end, eg. animat* When you d use it: To find all the possible variations on the root of a word without typing them all into the search box. eg. animat* will find animate, animated, animating, animates, animation, animations. communicat* will find communicate, communicates, communication, communications, communicating, communicated. Don t put the * or? too early in the word or you ll get results that aren t relevant. Wild cards What: Use it to find different spellings of the same word How: Put a # or an! in place of the letter that varies. eg. colo#r, wom!n. The symbols used for wild cards vary between databases, so read the search help to see which symbols to use in a certain database. When you d use it: When one version of the word has an extra letter to another version, eg. colour and color To find spelling variations with the same number of letters, eg. woman and women Boolean What: Boolean operators tell the database how to combine different keywords to get the results you want. AND will only find articles that include all your keywords. OR will find articles that contain any of the keywords. NOT will exclude articles that contain that term. How: Use AND, OR, NOT between words When you d use it: AND: To combine keywords that reflect different ideas, eg. animation AND critical theory If you want results that include all of those keywords in any order eg. punk AND Australia OR: When there are multiple words for the concept you want, use OR to find any of the words, eg. film OR movie NOT: If you want to exclude records that contain a particular word, eg. animation NOT disney

4 Search tips Searching for a phrase What: Putting two or more words in double speech marks to tell the search that you only want articles where those words occur next to each other in that order. How: eg. digital television When you d use it: If you are looking for a specific search term that has two or more words that must appear in that order, eg. digital television, sound effects, short film If you make your phrase too long you might miss out on relevant results, so only use 2-3 words. Proximity searching What: Proximity operators let you find one word within a certain distance of another. Usually w and n, short for within and near are the symbols used in a proximity search. How: Not all databases allow proximity searching, and those that do have different ways of doing it. Read the search help in a database to find out how to do a proximity search in that database. When you d use it: If you are looking for articles with words that should be near each other, but can have other words in between them. Proximity operators can both broaden (find more results) or narrow (find fewer results) a search. They narrow a search by filtering out irrelevant results, but can broaden a search because proximity searching is less specific than searching for a phrase. The subjects in a database can help you find other resources If you are doing a search and find a useful article, you can look at the article s subjects to find other search terms you can use. Some databases also have a link you can click to find similar articles. too many results? Use more specific search terms Use the AND Boolean operator Use the NOT Boolean operator If your search terms contain a phrase, put speech marks around it Use proximity operators too few results? Use broader search terms Try truncating a keyword that has many possible endings for the root word Use synonyms (different words for the same concept, eg. Animation and cartoon) Don t search as a phrase Use the OR Boolean operator Use proximity operators

5 Audio Engineering Society From the JMC Academy homepage click on the Student portal, then click on the library catalogue icon. On the catalogue page, click on the link to the AES E-Library. Please contact the librarian for the remote access username and password. Basic search Click on this icon for help Display of Search Results Abstract * Too many results? Use the advanced search to narrow your search Use this icon to download, print or save Display by relevance or date * An abstract is a short description of what the article is about.

6 Advanced search Audio Engineering Society With the advanced search you can refine your search to obtain better results. Click on advanced search criteria to access the advanced search. Select type of publication Search in the title, abstract or the whole document Search for the author s name Select a date range Search tips To search articles containing combined keywords or terms use AND, it will narrow your search and retrieve documents with all the term(s) & keyword(s). Example: noise AND music To search 2 words combined together use quotation marks "..." Example: "hearing loss" Broaden your search by using OR, it will look for documents containing any of the words or phrase(s). Example: sound OR music OR tune OR melody Exclude some words by using NOT. It will look for documents that contain the selected term but not the other. Example: "sound recording" NOT teaching You can use symbols for variants of spelling using? or * Example: Teach* will search teacher, teachers, teach, teaches, teaching... col?r will search documents containing the words colour, color... col?r* will search colour, color, colors, colours, colors, colouring, colouring...

7 Searching EBSCO EBSCO is a collection of databases containing a wide range of articles. Access EBSCO via the library catalogue, which can be reached from the student portal. How to search The page will open to the basic search, but you can also choose the advanced search. Please contact the librarian for the remote access username and password. Choose from AND, OR, NOT Advanced search By default, it will search all databases. Use this to select a specific one, eg. Music Index You can search in specific fields, eg. Subject, title, abstract These buttons add or remove search boxes Click for search help You can make your search more specific SmartText Searching lets you enter a longer piece of text which the search engine will search for. Only find results that include the full article Only find scholarly/peer-reviewed articles Search for results within a particular date range This finds words similar to your search terms Searches the whole article for your search terms Only search for articles that cite articles available on EBSCO Search in a specific publication Image Quick View shows images in your search results. You can limit the type of images shown.

8 You can put search limits on a particular database ISSN stands for international standard serial number, it is a unique number that identifies a certain periodical. Search results Use Relevance and Page Options to customise the layout of results This tells you the type of article Click to view or download the article Use the Refine Results bar on the left to narrow down your search results. Click to print, or save Hover to see the full bibliographic record, including abstract Click Folder View to open the folder with the items you stored. Print, or save from here. Type a different year or move the sliders to change the year The results bar on the right shows related images and lets you find out more about the companies mentioned in the articles Select the subject and thesaurus terms that fit your topic Limit results to a particular country Only see results from a database relevant to your subject

9 Browsing By subject You can browse all the subjects in a particular database. Hover over the Subjects menu at the top of the page and choose the database you want to see. By publication To browse the publications in a particular database, hover over the Publications menu at the top of the page and select a database. You will be taken to a list of publications. You can then search, or click through the alphabet menu to browse. Choose a publication to see more detail. Choose a year to see the issues from that year. Select an issue to see all the articles in that issue.

10 Company information Use the Company Information option in the menu at the top of the page to search for companies. Saving Searches Creating a MyEBSCO profile will allow you to save searches. You can also customise some of your preferences. To create a profile, click Sign In at the top of the page. To save a search Go to Search History. Click Create a new Account. Select the search you want to save and click Save Searches/Alerts. Enter a name and description for your search, select whether you want it saved permanently of for 24 hours, or whether you want to save it as an alert, which means EBSCO will you when new results are added to the search. The Folder icon in the menu will take you to your saved items. You can also add/edit folders from here.

11 Sound on Sound Sound on Sound is a magazine about recording technologies that includes reviews, opinion pieces, advice on recording, and articles on technique and the music business. Please contact the librarian for the remote access username and password. Please note: JMC s licensing agreement with SOS only allows ten students to be logged in at a time, so if you can t log in try again later. Search Click Search and then New Search to access the search page Choose to search for articles with all of your keywords, or articles with any of your keywords Use this if you want a certain type of article, eg. An article on technique Only retrieve articles that have a PDF Search by a year or month, or select any year or any month Choose how you want results displayed For more search tips read the How to Search section below the search box.

12 Sound on Sound Search results This display shows only the titles of the articles Date of publication Type of article Browse Click on the Articles menu for a choice of ways to browse.