Evaluating Web Sites
As with print resources, evaluation and critical thinking are very important when using or citing internet sites. Evaluation criteria include:
- Currency of information
- Accuracy of information
- Authority or credibility of source (who produced or authored the site)
- Comprehensiveness, scope
- Quality of information, scholarly or otherwise
- Usefulness to topic
Search Google Books Now
Search the full text of all books available in Google Book Search - whether contributed by Harvard, another library, or the publisher - with links to Harvard collections.
Essential Tool: EResearch @ Harvard
- HOLLIS +Portal to Harvard Library resources, including books, online video and audio, full text of journal articles, indexes, dictionaries, images, and much more.
Spotlight: Online Resources for Music Scholars
- Online Resources for Music ScholarsA research guide, maintained by the Loeb Music Library, on a wide variety of topics in music, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory, composition, and performance practice. It collects links to archival collections, online scores and sound recordings; article indexes, discographies and bibliographies; scholarly societies; musical reference works; and a miscellany of useful websites.
Library Research Guides
Subject guides created by Harvard librarians; look here for links to suggested reference sources, journals, websites, and more
- Music: Art, Rock, and Pop (the Library Guide)Harvard Library guide to resources about rock and popular music.
- American Musicals and American Culture: Library GuideHarvard Library guide to American musical theater resources.
- Finding Concert Reviews: Library GuideHarvard Library guide to finding musical performance reviews.
- Online Resources for Music ScholarsResearch guide on a wide variety of topics in music, including ethnomusicology
- Harvard College Library: Research GuidesHundreds of guides for specific disciplines, classes, and information sources