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Academic Writer (APA Style)
From the American Psychological Association (APA), Academic Writer’s self-paced learning modules, reference building tools, and guided writing center show students how to conduct research, structure a papers, format a paper and more! How to Guide: How to Use Academic Writer
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On campus access. BabelScores provides scores to contemporary music. All scores can be consulted on-line at any time and from any place in a practical virtual reader while listening to their recordings. A number of digital scores are available in PDF format for printing.
Use of materials in course packs is also foreseen and allowed within the specific terms of each subscription.
Bloomsbury Music and Sound includes Bloomsbury Popular Music and Bloomsbury Sound Studies.
Popular Music provides scholarly coverage of modern popular music worldwide, covering the mid-20th century to the present day, through the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, an expanding range of scholarly books and the 33 1/3 series. Sound Studies is a wide-ranging, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary scholarly content in the study of sound. Subject areas covered include art, aesthetics, architecture, contemporary music, history, philosophy, technology, and cultural studies and the growing literature of sonic and auditory theory, methodology, and practice.
On campus access. Skills for Study is organized in a modular structure. The 12 modules have been specifically designed to develop and hone the study skills students need to perform well in their academic studies and beyond.
Each module is made up of engaging activities, exercises, videos, blogs and articles, providing dynamic tuition which will meet the diverse learning needs of the student body.
The modules cover academic study, time management, note taking, reading and note taking, writing skills, critical thinking skills, referencing and plagiarism, exam skills, group work and presentations, working with numbers, research principles and employability.
Classical Scores Library’s includes an extensive collection of digital scores of the classical canon, as well as a resource for the discovery of diverse and lesser-known contemporary works and is enhanced with learning tools, covering music history, performance, composition, and theory for today’s music scholars.
On campus access. Covers all aspects of the visual arts, with peer-reviewed articles contributed by international scholars.
Grove Art features entries on artists, architects, craftsmen, patrons, movements, locations, and periods, as well as bibliographies for further research and thousands of searchable images made available through Oxford’s partnerships with museums, galleries, and other outstanding arts organizations. First published as the landmark 34-volume Dictionary of Art, the dictionary now lives as an online resource, published by Oxford University Press.
Statista provides statistical data on many topics including media, business, politics, society, technology, education. Charts can be downloaded in PNG, PowerPoint, Excel or PDF formats or embedded in web pages and can be great in papers or presentations. Includes citations in multiple styles.