The International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) is an index of international music periodicals from over 20 countries. The coverage since 1996 is of over 400 titles, with selective, retrospective coverage of over 180 periodicals, some as far back as 1874. "IIMP covers nearly all aspects of the world of music, from the most scholarly studies to the latest crazes."

SEARCH

The SEARCH screen allows for searching within a variety of categories, including keyword, title, author, subject category, and subject term. IMPORTANT: the narrower subject terms and broader subject categories are ONLY available for the current materials (since 1996).

Search all one field, e.g., single author, or combine fields, e.g. author and keyword. In an author search, type last name first name in the appropriate text box. Boolean operators, and, or, and not, can be used within each text box. Phrases will be searched as exact phrases unless combined with the appropriate Boolean term.

Click on to the right of each text box for a list of terms for each field.

Search terms may be truncated to broaden the search to cover various possibilities, e.g., masse* will retrieve records containing masse, massed, massenburg, massenet, masses, massey, etc.

The search can be limited to only the current or older files by selecting the appropriate choice under Search Options, or select a specific time frame by using the "From...To" boxes for "Publication Date." The limit of "Document Type" includes article review, book review, exhibit review, editorial, obituary, etc. Search results may also be limited to language, peer reviewed, country of publication, to a specific publication name (journal title), or to exclude reviews.

Words entered in the search box for "Publication" will retrieve all entries with that word or phrase in the title. To search for an exact title, type EXACT in front of the word or phrase. This will search for ONLY that phrase and will exclude titles with the phrase within the title, e.g., EXACT "american music" (with quotation marks) will allow a search in the journal American Music, but will not search American Music Teacher or Inter-American Music Review. The same search strategy will work in the "Subject Terms" category.

After the search terms have been entered, click on .

A list of results, in brief (citation only) format, will appear.

To view the full record for a single entry, click on "Full citation" below the record. The full citation will include other descriptive information and any available abstract. To return to the list of entries from the full citation screen, use the BACK button on the browser bar.

To return to the search screen, click on the BACK button on the browser bar.

EMAIL / PRINT /SAVE

To print full records, use the Print commands from the browser bar when viewing the individual or list of marked records in full citation format (from the email screen).

Select items to be emailed/printed/saved by clicking in the box to the left of the citation; each record will be sent to a Selected Records file. Up to 25 records at a time should be emailed for best results. To view the records sent to the Selected Records file, click on . A list of those records selected will appear. Click on . Enter one or more email addresses in the appropriate boxes, then click the SEND button. NOTE: Under each record in the list, a "notes" box is available to type in comments of choice on the article. This commentary will be included in the email message. To print the list of Selected Records in the email file, use the Print commands on the browser bar. To save the records from the email list, click on the export/download option of choice and follow the instructions.

LOCATING JOURNAL ARTICLES

To check if UWM Libraries has the articles available, check on the "Electronic Journals" list from the Libraries' home page, the follow the "CItation Linker" button. Enter the FULL name of the journal. If the journal is available full text in any electronic database, those choices will appear; otherwise check PantherCat to locate any holding in the UWM Libraries.

HELP
Help is available from any screen by clicking on HELP in the top menu bar. To view a full list of journals indexed, check the list available under Librarians' Resources.

EXIT
Exit the database by clicking on HOME from the browser bar.

£ 02/25/2005