Welcome to your Music and Sound Production Subject Research Guide
Watch the video to meet your Academic and Digital Library Liaison – Jennifer Ouson, then have a look in the sections below to find useful and relevant resources for your course.
If you are not able to find what you are looking for please contact your Academic Digital Library Liaison, listed at the bottom of the page, who will be happy to help you with all library and subject research needs.
British Library Sound Archive
Recordings from one of the largest collections of sound recordings in the world. The recordings in the archive include sounds of nature and the environment, recorded interviews, regional dialects, poetry and so much more. Explore world and traditional music or visit the past with protest recordings and oral histories, or visit the ‘dig deeper’ pages, including ‘History of recorded sound‘. A very useful free resource for students studying music, radio and other broadcast media with many recordings made available to use for research and education purposes.
Library Search
eCore is an essential tool for finding, via one single search box, information from the physical and online library resources available to you, including:
- Research Starters
- Library catalogue
- Ebooks
- Magazines articles
- News and newspaper articles
- Encyclopedia articles
- Additional Online Resources
Online Resources
Oxford Music Online
The world’s premier online music encyclopedia, offering comprehensive coverage of music, musicians, music-making, and music scholarship, this authoritative resource for music research holds over 52,000 articles written by nearly 9,000 scholars charting the diverse history and cultures of music around the globe.
MediaPlus (Alexander Street)
MediaPlus, a service delivered to the UK higher and further education community, brings you more than 100,000 archival videos, images, and sound recordings from world histories, people, news, and events around the world.
Credo
A useful resource for all subject areas, featuring reference works such as encyclopedias and dictionaries alongside textbooks.
You can display your search results in a traditional list layout, or you can choose to have them displayed in a concept map where linking themes, people, and events can be explored easily to expand upon your research topic.
Gale Database
Using Gales PowerSearch you can search across newspapers, scholarly journals, and general reference magazines for content on all topics and subjects. Read current and historical newspaper coverage from local, national and international press, browse general magazine content, and explore articles from scholarly journals and other authoritative sources.
Magazines
The library has current subscriptions to some fantastic magazines, including i-D, Sound on Sound, Future Music, and Computer Music, all of which can be found at Milton Road library, requested to another campus, or borrowed to read at home.
Sound On Sound
Sound On Sound is known for its thorough and unbiased reviews of music technology products, such as audio interfaces, microphones, and software. It also features articles on recording techniques, music production, and sound engineering, as well as interviews with musicians, producers, and engineers.
Future Music
Future Music is the number one magazine for today’s producers. Packed with technique and technology we’ll help you make great new music. All-access artist interviews, in-depth gear reviews, essential production tutorials, and much more.
Computer Music
Computer Music’s goal is to help its readers create great music with a PC or Mac. Each month find easy-to-follow tutorials for all sorts of music software, unbiased reviews of the latest products, and answers to technical questions.
i-D
i-D is an iconic British magazine dedicated to music, fashion, art and youth culture, plus it is an excellent resource for issues of race, gender and sexuality.
ClickView
ClickView is Edinburgh College’s media player. It contains TV & Radio programmes recorded from free-to-air channels and Audio & Video produced by staff.
For sign in guidance, please visit our Clickview page.
Linkedin Learning
LinkedIn Learning is an online digital learning website that provides access to a library of video tutorials in the creative, technology, software and business industries.
For sign in guidance, please visit our Linkedin Learning page.
Referencing
Referencing at Edinburgh College: Online Course
Our online course (approx. 30min) provides a simple introduction to referencing and plagiarism using the Harvard system of referencing. If you are new to referencing this is the ideal place to start. We provide introductory guidance on what referencing is, why you need to reference, and how to correctly reference some of the most common sources in your assignments.
The course is divided into 7 sections. Sections have short activities that you can undertake to test your own understanding of the topics you have read about.
Cite Them Right: Referencing Support
This is a comprehensive guide to referencing and plagiarism. Cite Them Right provides full guidance on how to correctly reference all sources in your assignments, with guidance available on Harvard and numerous other styles of referencing.
You can use Cite The Right to help format references, look up answers to your referencing questions, support with paraphrasing and summarising from sources, and follow an in depth tutorial to test your knowledge and learn even more.
Downloadable Guide
This is a double-sided A4 sheet that you can print and take away with you. It details how to reference some of the more common sources you may need to reference and uses the Harvard system of referencing. Please be aware that this is most easily understood after completing our Referencing at Edinburgh College course (approx. 30mins).
Support
Contact Jennifer Ouson at jennifer.ouson@edinburghcollege.ac.uk
Find contact information for the Library team by visiting our Contact and Support page