RESEARCH RESOURCES for articles, chapters, and books (restricted to Wesleyan access)
- Olin home page Library OneSearch window
- Listing of all of the Indexes and Databases in Olin Library
- Books, articles, dissertations, recordings:
- WorldCat (books and sound and video recordings contained in all US university libraries)
- JSTOR (articles in scholarly journals, not including the past 3-5 years)
- Project Muse (articles in scholarly journals, up to the present)
- Dissertations and Theses (pdfs that can be downloaded)
- Music Index [search Music Index on the M page] (1976 to the present; data from 775 international music periodicals)
- RILM [search RILM on the R page] (music literature, music theory and analysis, ethnomusicology, and musicology–journal articles, books, dissertations)
- RIPM Jazz Periodicals [search RIPM Jazz Publications on the R page] (fully indexed and searchable jazz periodicals)
- Books, articles, dissertations, recordings:
OPEN ACCESS
- Magazines
- Newspapers
- Google Advanced News Archive Search
- Village Voice
- Historical newspapers online (U Penn site)
- Library of Congress, search America’s newspapers (1836-1922)
ACADEMIC WRITING
- Chicago Manual of Style Online (2017)–Wesleyan access only
- GLAAD Media Reference Guide (11th ed.): Transgender people; Glossary of terms: Transgender
- “Racial Transitions and Controversial Positions” (Rebecca Tuvel, Philosophy Today, 2018)
- To Do
- Becoming a Stylish Writer (Rachel Toor, Chronicle of Higher Education, 7/2/2012) (Wesleyan access only)
- “Ten Rules of Writing” (Amitava Kumar)
- “Structure” (John McPhee, New Yorker, 2014)
- Critiques
- “The Professor of Parody: The Hip Defeatism of Judith Butler,” (Martha Nussbaum, New Republic, 1999)
- Reprint, including letters to the editor and reply by Nussbaum (Nussbaum, Philosophical Interventions, Reviews 1986-2011) (Wesleyan access only); (Open access)
- “International Art English” (Andy Beckett, theguardian.com, 1/27/2013)
- “Why Academics Stink at Writing” (Steven Pinker, Chronicle of Higher Education, 9/26/2014); Open access
- “Why Most Academics Will Always Be Bad Writers” (Noah Berlatsky, Chronicle of Higher Education, 7/11/2016) (Wesleyan access only); (Open access)
- “What an Audacious Hoax Reveals About Academia” (Yascha Mounk, Atlantic, 2018)
- “The Professor of Parody: The Hip Defeatism of Judith Butler,” (Martha Nussbaum, New Republic, 1999)
- Jargon
- Learn to Write Badly, chap. 4, ”Jargon, Nouns, Acronyms,” especially pp. 77-79, Michael Billig (Wesleyan access only)
- “Zombie Nouns” (Helen Sword, NYT, 7/23/2012)
- Plagiarism
- Fareed Zakaria in Time magazine (2012), and more fallout
- Wired Editor Steals Content for Book About How Content Should be Free (gawker.com, 6/23/2009)
- Powerpoint: pro; con
CITATION STYLES