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Audio
Engineering Resources
Audio Engineering resources
Books, DVDs, CDs & print journals
Search for these in the JMC Academy Library Catalogue click on Library Catalogue link on Student Portal
Look in these sections for Audio subjects
Audio engineering 620-621
MIDI 780
Some recommendations to get you started…
Practical recording techniques by Bruce Bartlett – 621.3893 BAR Sound reinforcement handbook by Gary Davis – 621.3893 DAV The art of sound reproduction by John Watkinson – 621.3893 WAT
The MIDI manual by David Miles Huber – 780.285 HUB
Print journals
Audiotechnology – Periodicals section
Online resources
Please contact the librarian for remote access usernames and passwords.
Some other websites and online journals…
Journal of the Art of Record Production http://arpjournal.com Pro Tools Training http://www.pro-tools-expert.com
Record Production http://www.recordproduction.com/
Pensado’s Place http://www.pensadosplace.tv/
Bobby Owsinski’s Blog http://bobbyowsinski.blogspot.com.au/
EBSCO
For academic journals and more Follow the link on the Library
Catalogue homepage Audio Engineering Society
Papers from the only professional society exclusively for audio
technology.
http://www.aes.org/e-lib/inst/
Sound on Sound
Recording technology magazine
http://www.soundonsound.com/
Mix Magazine Online www.mixmag.com Australian Screen Guild www.assg.org.au Film Sound www.filmsound.org
Sound Bible Sound Clips www.soundbible.com
Search tips
These tips will save you time when you are researching. Most search pages will have a ‘search help’
section; read that to find other ways to search efficiently. Sometimes the symbols for truncation, wild cards and proximity searching vary between databases so the search help page will also tell you which symbols that database uses.
Truncation
What: Replacing the end of a word with an * or ?, to find words with the same beginning, but with varying endings.
How: Type the root of the word, and place the * or ? at the end, eg. animat*
When you’d use it:
To find all the possible variations on the root of a word without typing them all into the search box. eg. animat* will find animate, animated, animating, animates, animation, animations. communicat* will find communicate,
communicates, communication, communications, communicating, communicated.
Don’t put the * or ? too early in the word or you’ll get results that aren’t relevant.
Wild cards
What: Use it to find different spellings of the same word
How: Put a # or an ! in place of the letter that varies. eg. colo#r, wom!n. The symbols used for wild cards vary between databases, so read the search help to see which symbols to use in a certain database.
When you’d use it:
When one version of the word has an extra letter to another version, eg. colour and color
To find spelling variations with the same number of letters, eg. woman and women
Boolean
What: Boolean operators tell the database how to combine different keywords to get the results you want. AND will only find articles that include all your keywords. OR will find articles that contain any of the keywords. NOT will exclude articles that contain that term.
How: Use AND, OR, NOT between words
When you’d use it:
AND:
To combine keywords that reflect different ideas, eg. animation AND critical theory
If you want results that include all of those keywords in any order eg. punk AND Australia
OR:
When there are multiple words for the concept you want, use OR to find any of the words, eg. film OR movie
NOT:
If you want to exclude records that contain a particular word, eg. animation NOT disney
Search tips
Searching for a phrase
What: Putting two or more words in double speech marks to tell the search that you only want articles where those words occur next to each other in that order.
How: eg. “digital television”
When you’d use it:
If you are looking for a specific search term that has two or more words that must appear in that order, eg. “digital television”, “sound effects”, “short film”
If you make your phrase too long you might miss out on relevant results, so only use 2-3 words.
Proximity searching
What: Proximity operators let you find one word within a certain distance of another. Usually
wand
n, short for
‘within’ and ‘near’ are the symbols used in a proximity search.
How: Not all databases allow proximity searching, and those that do have different ways of doing it. Read the search help in a database to find out how to do a proximity search in that database.
When you’d use it:
If you are looking for articles with words that should be near each other, but can have other words in between them.
Proximity operators can both broaden (find more results) or narrow (find fewer results) a search. They narrow a search by filtering out irrelevant results, but can broaden a search because proximity searching is less specific than searching for a phrase.
The subjects in a database can help you find other resources
If you are doing a search and find a useful article, you can look at the article’s subjects to find other search terms you can use. Some databases also have a link you can click to find similar articles.
too many results?
Use more specific search terms
Use the AND Boolean operator
Use the NOT Boolean operator
If your search terms contain a phrase, put speech marks around it
Use proximity operators
too few results?
Use broader search terms
Try truncating a keyword that has many possible endings for the root word
Use synonyms (different words for the same concept, eg. Animation and cartoon)
Don’t search as a phrase
Use the OR Boolean operator
Use proximity operators
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Audio Engineering Society
Too many results? To narrow your search go to advanced search Abstract *
Basic search
Display by relevance or
date
* An abstract is a short description of what the article is about.
From the JMC Academy homepage click on the Student portal, then click on the library catalogue icon.
On the catalogue page, click on the link to the AES E-Library.
Display of Search Results
Too many results? Use the advanced
search to narrow your
search
Advanced search
Search in the title, abstract or the whole
document Select
type of publication
To search articles containing combined keywords or terms use AND, it will narrow your search and retrieve
documents with all the term(s) & keyword(s).
Example: noise AND music
To search 2 words combined together use quotation marks "..."
Example: "hearing loss"
Broaden your search by using OR, it will look for documents containing any of the words or phrase(s).
Example: sound OR music OR tune OR melody
Exclude some words by using NOT. It will look for documents that contain the selected term but not the other.
Example: "sound recording" NOT teaching
You can use symbols for variants of spelling using ? or *
