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Music magazines from LAPL

With a Los Angeles Public Library card, you can access Overdrive.

Overdrive offers a number of music magazines such as Rolling Stone, Billboard, and Mojo.

PressReader
LAPL also provides access to PressReader, where you can read newspapers and magazines from all over the world: this can be a super useful tool for keeping up with music industry trends.
New York Times
Sign up for a daily All-Access pass to the NY Times including all digital content, with your LAPL card.

Citing your sources (MLA and Chicago)

OWL Purdue MLA 9
A straightforward guide showing what has changed in the new (9th) edition of MLA. Hosted by Purdue University's Online Writing Lab.
Quick Guide to Citing in MLA 9
Chicago Manual of Style (online) Full e-version of the Chicago Manual of Style with links to the style blog. Log in with CSUN credentials to access.
OWL Annotated Bibliography guide
Annotated bibliography
The library's guide to annotated bibliographies, including MLA and APA examples.

Find books on music trade

Music Business Essentials by Mark CABANISS
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 1442274549
Publication Date: 2018
The American Song Book by Philip Furia; Laurie J. Patterson
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780199391882
Publication Date: 2015
The Poets of Tin Pan Alley by Philip Furia
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 0195064089
Publication Date: 1990
The Jazz Age: Popular Music in the 1920s by Arnold Shaw
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 1280524278
Publication Date: 1987

Los Angeles Public Library e-resources

LAPL e-resources
Anyone with an address in California can get an LAPL card. Then you can stream up to 10 titles a month on Kanopy.

Freegal
Using Freegal, you can stream unlimited Sony-owned music, and download up to 5 MP3s a week.

Databases

Music Periodicals Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Formerly known as International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP). Index to more than 440 scholarly and popular periodicals in the areas of classical music, opera, jazz, popular music and pop culture, music education, musicology, music theory, and many others. There is particularly strong coverage of performance, music education, and jazz.
New York Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
Digital archive offering full-text and full-image articles for the New York Times from 1851-2012.
Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
Gateway to online music resources: Grove Music Online, comprising the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed., The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd ed.; The Oxford Companion to Music; and The Oxford Dictionary of Music.
ProQuest Global NewsStream This link opens in a new window
Full text access to a large selection of national and international newspapers, news wires and news sources.

Streaming video

Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window Over 30,000 hours of streaming videos covering a wide range of subjects.
African Diaspora, 1860-Present This link opens in a new window Primary source documents, including personal papers, organizational papers, journals, newsletters, court documents, letters, and ephemera about migrations of people of African descent to countries around the world, from the 19th century to present day.
Asian Film Online This link opens in a new window Through a selection of over 1,000 narrative feature films, documentaries and shorts curated by film scholars and critics, the collection offers highly relevant perspectives and insights onto themes relevant across Asia, including modernity, globalization, female agency, social and political unrest, and cultural and sexual identity.
BBC Shakespeare in Perspective This link opens in a new window
Black Studies in Video This link opens in a new window Streaming video database with over 500 hours of documentaries, newsreels, interviews and archival footage surveying the evolution of black culture in the United States.
Border and Migration Studies Online This link opens in a new window
C-SPAN Video Library This link opens in a new window A searchable library of over 200,000 hours of videos from all three C-SPAN networks covering federal politics in the United States.
Counseling and Therapy in Video (Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new window
Dance Online: Dance Studies Collection This link opens in a new window The only collection of curated primary and secondary full-text materials to support informed performance, pedagogy, and scholarship in dance. Dance Online: Dance Studies Collection presents the historical context of 20th and 21st century dance through 150,000 pages of exclusive photographs, correspondence, magazines, dance notation, and reference material that dissolve the distance between archive and scholar and draw dance students into the library
Disability in the Modern World This link opens in a new window
Docuseek2 This link opens in a new window Docuseek2 provides access to hundreds of streaming education videos from a variety of producers and distributors. You can search for a specific title or keyword, or browse videos by theme or title.
Education in Video (Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new window
Environmental Studies in Video (Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new window
Ethnographic Video Online (Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new window
Filmakers Online This link opens in a new window Provides award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum—race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. It presents points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions world-wide.
Film Platform This link opens in a new window Over 600 documentary films distributed by Roco Films
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window Multidisciplinary streaming video service providing access to digital educational films. Current access includes over 700 videos in many subject areas.
Great Speeches Video Series This link opens in a new window
Health and Society in Video (Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new window
Human Rights Studies Online This link opens in a new window A research and learning database providing comprehensive, comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide. The collection is growing to include 75,000 pages of text and 150 hours of video that give voice to the countless victims of human rights crimes in the 20th and early 21st centuries.
Kanopy This link opens in a new window
Kanopy offers a number of videos that may be viewed online, through an app, or using Roku or Apple TV. Please note that the first time you use Kanopy via CSUN, you need to log in at csun.kanopy.com.
Latin America in Video This link opens in a new window
LGBT Studies in Video (Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new window
Music Online: Opera in Video (Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new window
National Theatre Collection This link opens in a new window Through a collaboration with the U.K.'s National Theatre, this collection offers high definition streaming video of productions and unique archival material offering significant insight into theatre and performance studies.
PBS Video Collection This link opens in a new window This collection of more than 1,200 streaming videos provides an exceptional range of content with the most valuable video documentaries and series from PBS.
Shoah Foundation Institute Visual History Archive This link opens in a new window Users must create an individual account in order to use this resource. A fully streaming video collection of more than 53,000 primary source testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other crimes against humanity, including the Nanjing Massacre, the Guatemalan Genocide, the Armenian Genocide, and the Tutsi Genocide.
Sony Pictures Classics This link opens in a new window More than 300 Sony Pictures Classics films from 1992 to 2015. Their catalog offers world cinema titles, and includes a strong emphasis on documentary, including works by filmmakers such as Louis Malle, Wim Wenders, Francis Ford Coppola, Ang Lee, Mike Leigh, Asghar Farhadi, Roman Polanski, Michael Haneke, David Cronenberg, Eric Rohmer, Terry Gilliam, Ismail Merchant, Errol Morris, Ingmar Bergman, Pedro Almodovar, and others.
Swank Digital Campus This link opens in a new window Swank is the world's largest non-theatrical distributor of motion pictures for public performance and the acknowledged leader in the field.

Swank (in OneSearch)
This link will show you all 1,000 titles in Swank available at CSUN, easily accessible using OneSearch.

Theatre in Video (Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new window

Other resources

myCSUNbox
Whether you are working in a group or on your own, you should store files in the cloud. myCSUNbox provides you with free storage.
Library of Congress Jukebox
Listen to the music from your class including Al Jolson, John Philip Sousa, and more!
myCSUNsoftware
Download Microsoft Office and gain access to the Adobe Suite (cloud-based) while you are a student at CSUN.