Reference Challenge - Week #5 - ProQuest

Ok, let me start off by saying this. I LOVE ProQuest. This database has saved my posterior more times than I can possibly count during college! Full text articles? Heck to the yea! Full source citations INCLUDED! It made my papers go so much smoother (and made the teachers give me lots of good grades). :D

1. What am I interested in today? Oh, decisions, decisions.....

As part of the Big Read, the Matthews Opera House is going to have an ensemble musical performance in April that I had never heard of before. Ashwin Batish is a music group that features the sitar, a traditional Indian musical instrument. Not too many hits came up, only three. However, one was a full text article about a music festival back in 2009. One very interesting thing I did notice though is that ProQuest gives you the option to translate the article or abstract into another language! That is seriously cool! Granted, there is a disclaimer that the translation does not replace a human translation, but for the gist of it, that is great.

1a. Let's go see what other people got going on. :D

2. I decided to do a search for one of the premier library related journals, Library Journal. I find it quite cool that we have full access to all the articles found in the journal, in full-text. I did notice that your search results aren't really specified as to what they are (ie. journal article, review, interview, etc) unless it is stated in the title, and there isn't the option to narrow it down further by such limiters. Either way, lots of journals are accessible, which is great!

Yay! Another week completed!