This guide supplements the School of Arts Library Guide and the Fashion Library Guide. It is designed to help you learn more about research and referencing.
This guide is for students and staff on the following courses:
Collectively known as periodicals - academic journals, magazines and newspapers - are a critical source of up-to-date information and analysis. You can search for periodical content on Library Search, or on databases.
Academic journals
Magazines
Newspapers
Database is a generic term used to refer to a range of online resources, not all of which are - strictly speaking - databases.
It can be confusing, so the main types of database are described below:
Indexes/bibliographies - collect metadata (e.g. abstracts) of information sources and provides links to those sources, which may or may not be available via a subscription the university holds. Examples: Google Scholar; Art Bibliographies Modern
Full-text databases - same as an index, but supplies the 'full text' of some publications. For example: Art Full Text
Collections/Libraries/Archives - bring together sources (texts, video, or images - or a combination of these). For example: Berg Fashion Library; LinkedIn Learning
Platforms - provide a platform for accessing resources, often publisher-based. For example: Sage Journals; EBSCOhost; Proquest
Data sets - provide access to data. For example: Statista