e-resources

Digital Skills Festival 2022

Do you know about the Digital Skills Festival? There are still a few places left on the following workshops:
Introduction to reference managers – Monday 30 May 14:30-16:00:
https://digitalskillsfestival.ed.ac.uk/introduction-to-reference-managers/
Managing your references using Zotero – Tuesday 31 May 09:30-10:00:
https://digitalskillsfestival.ed.ac.uk/managing-your-references-using-zotero/
Enhancing your workflow with the new Web of Science platform – Tuesday 31 May 12:00-13:00:
https://digitalskillsfestival.ed.ac.uk/enhancing-your-workflow-with-the-new-web-of-science-platform/
Misinformation, disinformation and fake news: What is it all about? – Tuesday 31 May 13:00-13:30:
https://digitalskillsfestival.ed.ac.uk/misinformation-disinformation-and-fake-news-what-is-it-all-about/
Managing your references with EndNote – Thursday 2 June 13:00-14:00:
https://digitalskillsfestival.ed.ac.uk/managing-your-references-with-endnote/
Using Mendeley for bibliography management – Thursday 2 June 15:00-15:30:
https://digitalskillsfestival.ed.ac.uk/using-mendeley-for-bibliography-management/
 

Dissertation Festival : Monday 7 March – Friday 18 March 2022

  • Do you want to find out more about the library resources available to support your dissertation question?
  • Are you interested in learning how to manage the bibliographic and research data you’ve found?

Join us for two weeks of online events and find out what the Library can do for you to help you succeed with your dissertation.

  • Make your dissertation something special : find out about our fantastic collections of digital primary sources
  • Discover the full range of digital resources that you can access via the University
  • Take the first steps to learn new skills in managing your bibliographic references and your research data

Live session times don’t suit you? Dissertation Festival sessions are complemented by the modules in the new LibSmart II online course which can be undertaken at any time to build your knowledge and skills in the library landscape for your dissertation research. For more information, see http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/LibSmart
Find out more at : www.ed.ac.uk/is/dissertation-festival

Nineteenth-Century Collections Online: British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture – Database trial available this month

We currently have temporary access to the following database on a one month trial basis:

  • Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture, covering approximately 1733 to 1968, features a wide range of primary sources related to the arts in the Victorian era, from playbills and scripts to operas and complete scores. Access rare documents sourced from the British Library and other renowned institutions, and curated by experts in British arts history. This archive includes thousands of invaluable primary sources, including original, signed works, that explore Victorian popular culture, bloods and penny dreadfuls, music, and the history of the English stage.

You can access the trial via the library e-resources trials webpage
Please do submit your feedback about this resource as we cannot consider purchasing it as a new subscription without positive feedback regarding its usefulness for research and/or teaching. Thank you!

Art Forum Archive now available!

Thanks to our ProQuest subscription we now have access to the full digital archive of every issue of Art Forum back to issue 1 of 1962!
You can access the backfile of Artforum (later Artforum International), the leading magazine for coverage of international contemporary art, from its launch in 1962 to 2020, via DiscoverEd. Spanning six decades of reporting on art in all media, Artforum offers features, reviews, and interviews relating to artists, exhibitions, publications, and other art world events / trends.
Coverage: 1962 – 2020.

You can access this via DiscoverEd by searching for the journal title “Art Forum” then following the link to the online resource:

Yale Art & Architecture ePortal

We have many online resources for the study of history of art, one of our most recent acquisitions is the wonderful Yale Art & Architecture ePortal.
The Yale A&AePortal is an authoritative eBook and image resource that features important works of scholarship in the fields of history of art, architecture, decorative arts, photography, and design. With innovative functionality, including smart image searching, and extensive metadata, the site includes many out-of-print titles, key backlist, and recent releases from some of the world’s finest academic and museum publishers. It also features a really excellent image search. Deep text and image tagging allow researchers to study scholarship across multiple eBooks from a variety of major publishers, yielding rich and exciting results.
You can watch online videos on how to make the most of the Yale Art & architecture ePortal here.
You can access the Yale A&A ePortal by going to the list of databases for History of Art. It is also listed on the databases for Art webpage, and on the Library A-Z of Databases.

Business of Fashion Professional: new subscription now live!

We are pleased to announce that we now have a one year trial subscription to Business of Fashion Professional, following a request from tutors in the School of Design at ECA.
To access Business of Fashion Professional, and set up your account with them, please use the links to Business of Fashion listed at the  Design Databases webpage.
For quick access the resource is also listed at our Library Databases A-Z of Databases webpage.
Please do make use of this resource as our decision on whether to renew it in 2023 will depend on the useage stats we get from BoF.
BoF Professional membership gives you access to agenda-setting fashion business content unavailable elsewhere, including daily analysis and advice, weekly members-only email briefings and full access to the BoF Professional iOS app. ‘All Access’ members also receive monthly case studies on key business opportunities, unlimited access to a library of watch-on-demand masterclasses, and invitations to digital live events, including a weekly #BOFLive series, Sustainability Summit and VOICES, an annual gathering for big thinkers.

Congratuations to all ECA 2021 Graduates!

We would like to offer our congratulations to everyone who graduated this week from ECA @ UoE!
Did you know there are lots of library resources that ECA Alumni are entitled to access? You can find out more here:
https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/library-museum-gallery/finding-resources/library-databases/databases-subject-a-z/alumni-e-resources
For more information about support after graduation please see https://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/about/alumni/new-graduates   and also  https://www.ed.ac.uk/alumni/new-graduates
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2 Music database trials go live for October 2021!

We are happy to announce that we have organised 2 one month trials for music resources:
1: nkoda:
nkoda is a digital sheet music, scores and parts subscription service that can be access via the nkoda app, on your phone, tablet or desktop. Music publishers featured include Barenreiter, Breitkopf & Hartel, Boosey & Hawkes, Faber Music, and more.
2: RRIMO:
Recent Researches in Music Online provides digital access to the complete content of the seven ‘Recent Researches in Music’ series, including Recent Researches in the Music of the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance, Recent Researches in the Music of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, and Recent Researches in the Oral Traditions of Music.
To access these trials and give feedback, please go to the library databases trials webpage.