e-resources

Two new music database trials now available!

Monday 5th February 2018:
From today until the end of February, we have trial access to RIPM* Preservation Series: European & North American Music Periodicals: a new full-text collection of music journals online. This database covers music and musical life during the Romantic period in world capitals, including Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Budapest, Milan, New York, Prague, Paris, St. Petersburg and Vienna.
*RIPM stands for Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals with Full-Text.
We also have trial access to RILM Music Encyclopedias online.
In early January 2018, RILM Music Encyclopedias online added four important works to its collection of 49 historical and current titles:

  • Ernst Ludwig Gerber, Neues historisch-biographisches Lexikon der Tonkünstler (Leipzig: A. Kühnel, 1810–1814).
  • Tobias Bröker, The 20th Century Violin Concertante: A Repertoire Catalogue of the Compositions for Violin Concertante Written Between 1894 and 2006, 2nd rev. ed. (Stuttgart: Tobias Bröker, 2016).
  • Andrea Sessa, Il melodramma italiano: Dizionario bio-bibliografico dei compositori, I: 1861–1900 and II: 1901–1925 (Firenze, Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2003).
  • Marcos Antonio Marcondes, Enciclopedia da música brasileira: Erudita, folclorica, popular, newly rev. ed. (São Paulo: Marcos Antonio Marcondes, 2010).

With the addition of these titles, RILM Music Encyclopedias augments its coverage and depth, adding titles on the golden age of Italian opera and on all aspects of Brazilian musical life. Also included are a monumental historic German encyclopedia and a catalogue of violin concertante repertoire.
RILM Music Encyclopedias is the continuously expanding global online repository of music encyclopedias and dictionaries designed to meet the teaching, learning and research needs of the international music community. In addition to quarterly updates and revisions, including additions to Komponisten der Gegenwart, the repository broadens its coverage annually.

[RILM: Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale.]
To access our trial to RILM Music Encyclopedias, please go to:
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,shib&custid=s3013074&profile=ehost&defaultdb=ril&groupid=main
To access our trial to RIPM* Preservation Series: European & North American Music Periodicals please go to:
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=url,shib&custid=s3013074&profile=ehost&defaultdb=usg&groupid=main
To access all current trials please go to the Library’s e-resource trials webpage at https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/library-museum-gallery/finding-resources/library-databases/e-resources-trials
Please note we already have a subscription to RILM Abstracts of Music Literature online, a comprehensive international bibliography of writings on music covering publications from the early 19th century to the present. To access that, please use the Music databases webpage at: https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/library-museum-gallery/finding-resources/library-databases/databases-subject-a-z/database-music
To access the library’s Music subject guide, please go to: http://edinburgh-uk.libguides.com/schoolofmusic

Discovery Day at Main Library George Square

The Library is holding a Discovery Day on Tuesday 30th January, to showcase some of our primary resource materials and discovery tools. Everyone is welcome to come along to the first floor of the Main Library at George Square, between 10.00am and 3.00pm, to explore our primary resource databases and collections.
Representatives from 3 of the major publishers of digitised primary source collections, Adam Matthew, Gale Cengage and ProQuest, and our very own Centre for Research Collections (CRC), will be on hand to help students and staff navigate through and find useful material in the huge range of primary sources we have access to online at the Library.
Between the 3 publishers the Library has access to over 60 digital primary source collections (that figure becomes over 300 if you count the fact that some databases, like Archives Unbound, are made up of lots of individual databases and collections), giving us access to millions of pages and images of digitised primary source material at our fingers tips.
For more information please see:
Adam Matthew: http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/hcalibrarian/2017/12/11/spotlight-on-adam-matthew-digital-primary-sources/
Gale Cengage: http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/hcalibrarian/2018/01/09/spotlight-on-gale-cengage-digital-primary-sources/
ProQuest: http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/hcalibrarian/2018/01/18/spotlight-on-proquest-digital-primary-sources/
We look forward to seeing you at the Main Library on 30th January!

Resource in focus: Box of Broadcasts

Do you want access to thousands of current and forthcoming TV programmes and an archive going back decades? Then use Box of Broadcasts!

Box of Broadcasts (BoB) National is provided as a subscription service by the British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC) for UK higher and further education institutions in collaboration with Bournemouth University.The University of Edinburgh subscribes to the BoB National service which enables all staff and students to choose and record any broadcast programme from over 60 TV and radio channels.
The recorded programmes are kept indefinitely and added to a growing media archive with all content shared by users across every subscribing institution.
The system allows staff and students to record and catch-up on missed programmes on and off-campus, schedule recordings in advance, edit programmes into clips, create playlists, embed clips into VLEs, share what they are watching with others and search a growing archive of material.

Resource in focus: e-Lexicons

e-Lexicons is an online resource for designers and artists, giving access to hundreds of reliable and accurate definitions, glossaries, biographies,  work examples, and bibliographies, covering the fields of graphic design, fashion, typography, illustration, lettering, and arts and crafts. Support material is provided such as lecture guides, indexes and reading lists.
You can access E-lexicons at the art and design databases list compiled by the Library.
You might also find the art and design subject guide useful.

Bloomsbury Design Library trial

From  Monday 2nd October all ECA students and staff will have access to a trial of the new Bloomsbury Design Library, a comprehensive online resource which offers coverage of design and crafts worldwide, from 1500 BCE to the present day. It combines carefully curated text and image content of the highest quality with an intuitive taxonomy for research and discovery. It can be used to enhance teaching, learning and research in the field of Visual Arts and Design.
You can access the trial directly via: https://www.bloomsburydesignlibrary.com/home
To access all the trials currently available on the library e-resources trials webpage, using your EASE log-in, please go to http://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/library-museum-gallery/finding-resources/library-databases/e-resources-trials
Our trial of the Bloomsbury Design Library will last 60 days. Please dont forget to give us your feedback via the trials webpage above.

"What can I access once I have left ECA?"

As a graduate of ECA and the UoE, you will still be able to access various services and resources of the ECA and UoE libraries. For example, you will have access to databases such as Jstor, and you can register as an Alumni library user.
For more information, see
http://www.ed.ac.uk/alumni/services/benefits/stay-connected/library
and
http://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/library-museum-gallery/using-library/join-the-library/graduates-edinburgh
We wish you all the best for your future!

University PhD theses digitisation project

The University Library PhD digitisation project will complete the digitisation of the University of Edinburgh’s collection of roughly 25,000 PhDs.
Approximately 10,000 PhDs are already accessible online through the Edinburgh Research Archive, our institutional repository, and this project will digitise the remaining 15,000, thereby making unique Edinburgh research available to all.
The collection dates from the early 1600s to the present day and includes theses of varying sizes, styles and formats. Duplicate theses will have their spines removed using an IDEAL 4705 Guillotine and will then be fed through the 100-page-per minute Kodak i4250 document scanner. These copies will be recycled, freeing up around 500 linear metres of storage space in the Main Library building.
Unique theses will be scanned manually using a Copibook Cobalt flatbed scanner and any items in poor condition will receive conservation treatment.
Following scanning, digital images will undergo several post-processing procedures, such as de-skewing, cropping and de-blurring, and will also be OCR-ed to enable keyword searching. Fully processed files will be uploaded to ERA as searchable multipage PDFs.
All files are due to be made available online by the end of 2018. For further information, please contact Gavin.Willshaw@ed.ac.uk
You can find more information on the project blog at:
http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/phddigitisation/
To search our databases for other PhDs and dissertations from across the world, go to our webpage for theses databases at: http://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/library-museum-gallery/finding-resources/library-databases/databases-subject-a-z/database-theses
 

Database trials available from 16th January

The Library has organised several trials of online databases and resources which are sure to be of interest to ECA students and staff.
You are now able to have trial access to ProQuest Film Scripts Online, Bloomsbury Fashion Central including their new Fashion Photography Archive,  and the online music encyclopaedia MGG Online, (Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart).
To access these and many other database trials, and to give your feedback, please go to:
http://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/library-museum-gallery/finding-resources/library-databases/e-resources-trials

Online resource trials

The University Library is running a large number of trials of online resources at the moment. You can access them here:
http://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/library-museum-gallery/finding-resources/library-databases/e-resources-trials
Our current trial databases cover a vast range of subjects and types of information, from contemporary Chinese politics, to history, philosophy, feminism, visual arts and popular culture. Please take a look at the trials on offer and explore these resources, and don’t forget to give your feedback so that we can decide whether to subscribe to them!
Thank you.

Free open access book: Drawing Futures: Speculations in Contemporary Drawing for Art and Architecture

UCL Press has launched a brand new open access book: Drawing Futures: Speculations in Contemporary Drawing for Art and Architecture, edited by Laura Allen and Luke Caspar Pearson.
Drawing Futures brings together international designers and artists for speculations in contemporary drawing for art and architecture.
Despite numerous developments in technological manufacture and computational design that provide new grounds for designers, the act of drawing still plays a central role as a vehicle for speculation. There is a rich and long history of drawing tied to innovations in technology as well as to revolutions in our philosophical understanding of the world.
In reflection of a society now underpinned by computational networks and interfaces allowing hitherto unprecedented views of the world, the changing status of the drawing and its representation as a political act demands a platform for reflection and innovation. Drawing Futures will present a compendium of projects, writings and interviews that critically reassess the act of drawing and where its future may lie.
Drawing Futures focuses on the discussion of how the field of drawing may expand synchronously alongside technological and computational developments. The book coincides with an international conference of the same name, taking place at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, in November 2016. Bringing together practitioners from many creative fields, the book discusses how drawing is changing in relation to new technologies for the production and dissemination of ideas.
A limited number of print copies of this book are also available from https://goo.gl/kmCXs1.
It will also be available as an open access title via OAPEN library and JSTOR.
Download free: https://goo.gl/kmCXs1