An orientation: Library Service and Learning Development: CMP, FAMM, Fashion Design, Film, Photography: E-Resources

- A wide range of courses covering content relevant to courses taught at the university, plus courses relevant to personal development more broadly. 

• Courses by Amy Wynn, painter and fine arts professor
• Photoshop and Illustrator for Fashion Design courses
• Building Generative AI Skills for Creative Professionals learning path (including DALL-E, Adobe Firefly, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and Photoshop)
• Canva courses
• Video courses and Video Production courses
• Final Cut Pro courses
• Photography courses
• Photoshop courses
• Wellbeing courses
• Student Success courses
• Generative AI-related courses, including Generative AI Career Essentials by Microsoft and LinkedIn 
• Blinkist summaries of popular productivity books
• What is information literacy

See the Fashion Design Library Guide for information about creating accounts, and a link to 'Business of Fashion'

Besides browser-based access, mobile apps are available for the following resources.

Westminster Research - the institutional repository (see specifically Westminster School of Arts / CREAM theses  

• Older theses may only be available in print and listed on Library Search - see here for examples. These are held offsite and can be requested by University of Westminster staff and students using the inter-library loan service. Details are here. 

EThoS - doctoral theses available from the British Library
PQDT Open - open access theses and dissertations
EBSCO Open Dissertations
OATD - open access theses and dissertations

You may need to use the SHIBBOLETH authentication service to access online resources - particularly if you are off-site.

Once you get to the online resource, click 'sign in' and see where it says 'shibboleth,'  'where are you from?' or 'institutional sign-in'.  

Before you get to a UoW branded sign-in dialogue box (below), you will usually be asked to select 'University of Westminster' from a drop-down box or enter 'University of Westminster' where you see the 'Where are you from?' prompt.
 

After this, you get to the University log-in box, where you enter your username and password (below). Note that you should type username@westminster.ac.uk for your username.


 

Read the advice above on using 'Shibboleth' to help you access e-resources.  Then, use the following links to experiment with accessing online books, academic journals, and magazines. 

• Book selection (librarian's list) 
• Journals and magazine selection (librarian's list)
• Library Search

Try logging into Library Search first before accessing online resources.

Try a different browser.

If you get to a page saying ‘stale request’, go back to the previous link and try again.

When signing into a third-party platform, you may get routed to the platform homepage rather than to the requested resource. Go back to the previous link and click on it again.

Check our holding to see whether you should have access to the requested resource (especially the specific volume of journals).

You must register with Bob the first time you use it - check your junk folder for the confirmation email.

You are most likely to find a film if you search for the film title and director (e.g. Alien Scott).  This is less important if the title is distinctive (e.g. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), but if you search for 'alien', you have to scroll through sixty episodes of 'Wanda and the Alien.'

If you don't know the director, select 'title' in the advanced search options. Occasionally, the director is not in the record, so this helps narrow things down. 

Select 'public playlist' in the search options to search for playlists (e.g. search for 'uow' for playlists the librarian has created, including 'Ways of Seeing, 'The Genius of Photography,', 'The Story of Film', and 'British Style Genius').

Make your own playlist and share with friends