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Frederick E. Berry Library and Learning Commons

Professor Fyfe ENL 110: Rhetorical Analysis Project

Finding Popular Music Magazines in Library Databases

Finding Your Magazine in the Library: Step One: Search for Your Magazine's Title

  • Determine if Berry Library provides access to the music magazine you want to read by following the steps on the screen shots.
  • At the Berry Library home page, www.salemstate.edu/library:
  • Hopefully, the Library website will take you to the next page that shows which databases include your magazine.
  • If the Library does not carry your magazine, it will tell you.
  • This means you must choose another title. 
  • You must use magazine issues from the Library website. You cannot go to Google.

Finding Your Magazine in the Library: Step Two

  • If you are searching from off-campus, you will be asked to enter your SSU username and password before you can access the databases. 

Finding Your Magazine in the Library: Step Three: Viewing Holdings for Your Magazine

  • This is a screenshot of what opened up for me when I clicked "GO" on the library search box.
  • It shows which databases carry the magazine you would like to read and the holding dates for that magazine:

Finding Your Magazine in the Library: Step Four: Choosing a Database to Search

  • I chose "MasterFILE Premier"

Finding Your Magazine in the Library: Step Five: Working with Your Magazine in MasterFILE Premier

  • On the screen that opens, you can browse through specific years or enter search terms. 
  • These are examples of recent searches for "Cardi B" in Rolling Stone:

 

 

Search Example One: Browse Articles in a Specific Issue

 

 

Search Example Two: For a Specific Artist