 In this video, I'm going to cover how to use Scout for Research as well as for finding scores and recordings of music. Scout is the library's primary search tool and is linked on our homepage as well as in your course research guide. One of the advantages of using Scout is that it simultaneously searches the library's catalogue, databases, and other electronic resources and then returns all of these search results in one place. It can be used to find print books, electronic books, scholarly journal articles, newspaper and magazine articles, scores and sheet music, sound recordings, videos, and more. In some ways, it's similar to Google except that it is tailored specifically to library research and to the materials that we have access to at UA. In Scout, you can choose between the basic search or advanced search. Today, I'm just going to start with a basic search for the keywords Shostakovich and Symphony. When searching Scout, it is not necessary to capitalize any words or to include articles like A and or the. Because Scout searches so many different places, it usually returns a high volume of search results. In this case, with over 60,000 results, we're going to want to narrow down our search. You can do this a couple of different ways. One way is to try a different combination of keywords or to add more keywords to your search. Another option is to narrow your search results using the limiters along the left side of the screen. If you are looking for information about Shostakovich's symphonies, you can select scholarly peer-reviewed journal articles, print books, or electronic books. One thing to note is that you can only select one of these formats at a time. I'm going to start by looking at the library's collection of print books on this topic. Each entry will include information about the book's location, call number, and status, which refers to whether or not the book is available for checkout. You can click on the title to view additional information about a given book. This takes you to the record for the book, which often includes a summary of what the book is about, as well as other information about the item. If you're looking for keywords to find other books that are similar to this one, you can always review the subject terms in blue and borrow relevant terminology from this list to use in a future search. On the right side of the screen, you can use the toolbar to get a persistent or stable link to this page, to email the source to yourself, or to access a computer-generated citation for your bibliography. Please note that with the computer-generated citations, there are often small mistakes, so you will want to double-check it against the appropriate style manual. When accessing ebooks and journal articles in Scout, you will want to look for links to view or download the full text. Often a PDF is available, if not, you'll need to select the full text finder link. This will either take you to a version of the full text in another database, or it will route you into our interlibrary loan system where you can submit a request to borrow the item from another library. As I mentioned before, you can also find scores and audio recordings in Scout. To do this, you can filter by source type and select Show More for a complete list of formats. When searching for a score or a recording of a particular musical work, you can search by the composer's name and the title of the piece. In this case, you can also add the symphony number or opus number to refine your search.