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:
e-resources
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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Dissertation Festival 2021: 25th – 29th October
UPDATE: our Dissertation Festival week took place from 25th – 29th October 2021. You can access recordings from the programme of online events at the Dissertation Festival webpage
Our next Dissertation Festival will take place in March 2022.
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.
Looking for advice on referencing?
We have lots of resources to help you with understanding referencing, and managing your bibliographies and citations. The first place to look is our Referencing subject guide.
Another very useful resource is Cite Them Right Online.
Find out more about avoiding accidental plagiarism with this Academic Integrity guide.
The Institute for Academic Development offers a Study Hub of useful resources too!
A warm welcome to all our new students and returning students, from ECA and A&A libraries!
Happy Welcome Week and Week 1 to all our new students and returning students!
You can find lots of information about ECA Library, Evolution House, West Port, and the Art&Architecture Library, Minto House, Chambers Street, here
If you’d like a short introduction to our online library catalogue, DiscoverEd, click here
For a suite of orientation guides to each library site, click here
For more information about the digital library click here
Please remember to wear a face covering while in our libraries. We look forward to welcoming you in person soon!
New resource alert!
We now have access to the complete digitised archive of Rolling Stone magazine, through our ProQuest 350 subscription.
From the first issue in 1967 to the present day, The Rolling Stone magazine has served as a critical source of news, entertainment and cultural information. For generations, students and young adults have turned to this iconic publication for fashion, society, music news, criticism and more. This digital archive will allow scholars to find articles, images and adverts that support their research. The collection provides coverage of cultural and countercultural movements from the 1960’s forward, highlighting key figures and events such as Woodstock, or the Iraq War. It allows for cross-disciplinary teaching and research in music, popular culture, arts, entertainment, politics, and 20th century history.
You can find the Rolling Stone digital archive on our library catalogue DiscoverEd. It is also listed in our databases A-Z and on the ‘databases by subject’ webpage for Music databases .
Improve your library search skills with our LibSmart series 1 and 2!
The Academic Support Librarian team and colleagues across the Library services have produced a series of modules which students can work through at their own pace, via our VLE (virtual learning environment), Learn. LibSmart 1 launched last September and helped many new students learn how to navigate to, and make the most of, the library resources available to them.
Now for 2021/22 we have launched LibSmart 2, which features new modules on specific subjects, such as ‘Finding and using digital images’, ‘Digital primary sources and digital scholarship’, and ‘Special Collections fundamentals’.
You can access more information about the LibSmart 1 and 2 modules here:
https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/help-consultancy/rm-and-consultancy/academic-support-librarians/libsmart
Have a question about the library services or collections? Contact your academic support librarian.
