Unfortunately, fake news is a fact of life in today’s world. When anyone can post anything at any time on various social platforms, how can a reader evaluate the reliability of a source?

EBSCOhost® is an ideal resource for exploring music scholarship. But can EBSCO be searched “musically?” And what might be the advantage of doing so?

When the MLA International Bibliography™ was first created in the early 1920s, it relied on the efforts of a team of enthusiastic volunteers to produce the listing of scholarly publications in literature and language. While their endeavors endured for many decades, in 1980 the MLA realized it needed to maintain a dedicated full-time staff to provide comprehensiveness to the ever-increasing scholarship.

Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) has created a universe of musical reference resources. It facilitates and disseminates music research worldwide through its comprehensive international bibliography of writings on music, also available in an enhanced version with full-text articles from over 200 journals linked from the bibliographic records, as well as a full-text repository of over 40 seminal music encyclopedias. Tina Frühauf, Content Acquisitions Director at RILM, talks about the importance of musical reference works vis-à-vis Wikipedia, technology’s effects on research, and the relativity of currency.

Rhianna Jones, Marketing Manager at IFIS Publishing, talks about the challenges of information overload and shares some tips for effective research.

Marquette University Librarian Heather James explains how to host a STEM Faculty Workshop in this webinar.

Take a look at three key subjects (and expert advice) for women in the workplace, their colleagues and their company.

Are you looking for new ways to engage with and support your mathematics researchers? American Mathematical Society (AMS), publisher of MathSciNet, presents a few readily accessible resources that you can use with your mathematics faculty and students to help them add new depth and dimension to their research.

Sometimes, students and scholars need help writing research papers. EBSCO's support site offers resources to help students evaluate, use and properly cite sources in their research.

With the September release fast approaching for five new Ultimate databases from EBSCO – Academic Search Ultimate, Business Source Ultimate, Sociology Source Ultimate, Humanities Source Ultimate and Applied Science & Technology Source Ultimate – Director of Product Management, Sara Earley, answered a few questions about the creation of these new academic resources and the growing need for research databases to include global scholarship.