Research Guides: Entertainment and Music Business: Audio Engineering

Journal and Magazines

Music Tech
full text of Music Tech: The magazine for producers, engineers, and recording musicians. Full text is available from September 2005 to the present.

Subject Headings

When searching in the library catalog for materials related to audio engineering technology, here are some examples of subject headings you should use:

Sound recording industry
Sound recording industry--United States
Sound recordings--Production and direction
Sound--Recording and reproducing
Sound--Recording and reproducing--Digital techniques
Computer sound processing
Digital audio editors
Auditory perception
Acoustical engineering
Signal processing--Digital techniques

Databases

AES Electronic Library
contains over 12,000 fully searchable PDF files documenting the progression of audio research from 1953 to the present day. The E-library includes every AES paper published at a convention, conference or in the Journal.
ScienceDirect
Science Direct is a leading full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from more than 3,900 peer-reviewed journals and more than 11,000 books. There are currently more than 9.5 million articles/chapters on subjects in the Health & Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Social & Behavioral Sciences.
Music Periodicals Database (IIMP)
Music Periodicals Database (IIMP) provides indexing, abstracting and selected full-text coverage of the most important scholarly and popular music journals published today.
Business Source Complete
A scholarly business database providing a collection of bibliographic and full text content in all disciplines of business. Indexing and abstracts for scholarly business journals back to 1886 are included. Additional full text, non-journal content includes SWOT analyses, financial data, books, major reference works, conference proceedings, case studies, and industry, country, company, and market research reports.

Search Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a way to search across many scholarly disciplines and sources while using the familiar Google interface. Resources include articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar allows users to search across more than just normal web sites with non scholarly results filtered out.

Selected Titles

Sound: Dialogue, Music, and Effects by Kathryn Kalinak (Editor, Contribution by); James Wierzbicki (Contribution by); Nathan Platte (Contribution by); Jeff Smith (Contribution by); Jay Beck (Contribution by); Vanessa Theme Ament (Contribution by); Mark Kerins (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9780813564289
Publication Date: 2015
Mastering Audio: The Art and the Science by Bob Katz
ISBN: 9780240818962
Publication Date: 2015
Production Sound Mixing: the art and craft of sound recording for the moving image by John J. Murphy; David Landau (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9781501307096
Publication Date: 2015