Music and Copyright
- Music and Cultural RightsExploration of a broad range of issues relating to cultural policy and cultural rights. Examining the ramifications for music of the 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights regarding cultural representation, image management, minority-majority relationships, and legal rights.
- Music Publishers' AssociationThe Copyright Resources Center provides a step-by-step guide to researching the copyright holder or publisher of a piece of music. It also provides forms for obtaining permission from the publisher to arrange a piece of music or make copies of out-of-print m
Chicago Manual of Style Online
The Chicago Manual of Style Online is the venerable, time-tested guide to style, usage, and grammar in an accessible online format. It is a reference guide for writers, editors, proofreaders, indexers, copywriters, designers, and publishers, informing the editorial canon with sound, definitive advice. Chicago Notes and Bibliography style (also known as Chicago A) is commonly used in the humanities.
For quick reference for Turabian, take a look at Chicago's Turabian Guide online. Turabian is a simplified presentation of the Chicago Style, and includes great advice for writers at the undergraduate and graduate student levels. The contents of Kate Turabian's A Manual For Writers is available within the Chicago Manual of Style Online, under "Librarian, Teacher, & Student Resources," then "Students." You can also find the print manual in Copley, at the reference desk and on the shelves.
The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) is another great source for quick, online access to citation information in Chicago Style.
Books to Help with Research Papers
Doing honest work in college: How to prepare citations, avoid plagiarism, and achieve real academic successCall Number: PN171.F56 L56 2004
Citation Helpers
- EndNoteITS provides support for EndNote version X1 and above. If you need assistance, please contact the ITS Help Desk at help@sandiego.edu or call (619) 260-7900.
- ZoteroZotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your workâin the web browser itself.
- Bib meBibMe is a free automatic bibliography generator that supports MLA, APA, Chicago, and Turabian formatting. BibMe leverages databases provided by Amazon, FindArticles, Yahoo! News, and CiteULike to quickly and accurately AutoFill citation information for you
- Citation MachineCitation Machine is an interactive web tool designed to assist high school, college, and university students, their teachers, and independent researchers in their effort to respect other people's intellectual properties.
- EasyBibThe Automatic Bibliography & Citation Maker