LibGuides: Guide to Library and Archive Services During COVID-19: New Resources

Databases

Art History Research net
AHR net is the new name for the Arts:Search website and consists of four related and linked databases:

ReVIEW: full text of arts and architecture journals
Arts + Architecture ProFILES: biographical data on over 40,000 artists, architects and designers
Design Abstracts Retrospective: contains abstracts of decorative, applied arts and design journals published between 1900-1986. Includes over 60,000 entries
Research Sources: 1. THE POSTER: contains extensive information on the Poster, including: A History of the Poster: a Bibliographical and Online Survey; digitizations of the most of the significant books, exhibition catalogues and journals on the Poster published between 1890s-1920s; and an International Directory of Poster Collections.
Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts
Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts combines visual inspiration with practical advice on everything from idea generation and research techniques to portfolio development – making this the ultimate guide to a visual arts education.
Bloomsbury Fashion Video Archive
In partnership with YOOX-NET-A-PORTER, Bloomsbury Fashion Video Archive exhibits almost 3,000 fashion shows presented in Paris, London, New York, and Milan by 460 international designers, and covers the period 1979 to 2003. Each video features extensive indexing and captioning to enable search, browse, and enhanced discoverability.
Bloomsbury Popular Music
This invaluable digital library for global popular music brings together leading scholarship and interactive tools to hit the right note for research and learning. It is an ideal resource for students and academics across disciplines including music, ethnomusicology, the performing arts, media and communication, cultural studies, anthropology and sociology.
Drama Online
Drama Online is a fast-growing study resource which now features over 2,600 playtexts from 1,000 playwrights, 400 audio plays, 325 hours of video, and 370 scholarly books from leading theatre publishers and companies, offering a complete multimedia experience of theatre.
PressReader
Unlimited access to over 7,000 premium newspapers and magazines. Quality content from more than 120 countries in over 60 different languages. Access via your computer or mobile device.
ProQuest One Academic
This resource provides unified access to journals, ebooks, dissertations, news, and video. It consist of four core multi-disciplinary databases - ProQuest Central, Academic Complete, Academic Video Online and ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.
To learn more about these databases click on this Guide.
Sage Research Methods Core
SAGE Research Methods enables you to answer methodology questions during the research process. It links full-text book, journal and reference content with advanced search and discovery tools, including visual search tools called Methods Maps.
Screen Studies (Bloomsbury)
A dynamic digital platform taking you from script to screen and beyond – offering a broad range of content from Bloomsbury, Faber & Faber and the British Film Institute to support moving-image studies. It is an essential resource supporting research and learning in film history, theory, and practice.

New Journal Subscriptions

Critical Studies in Men’s Fashion

The first peer-reviewed journal to focus exclusively on men's dress as a means of examining the tangible and intangible aspects of creating and maintaining appearance. The journal discusses gender, identity, sexuality, culture, marketing and business. All articles are double-blind peer reviewed.

International Journal of Fashion Design, Technology and Education

Peer-reviewed forum for research in fashion design, pattern cutting, apparel production, manufacturing technology and fashion education

Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

Edward Elgar Law Encyclopedia
Routledge Encyclopedia of modernism

Oxford Dictionaries Online - English, German, Russian, Portuguese, Arabic

E-Book Collections

CUP Cambridge Histories - 10 titles
Law ebook collections from Edward Elgar Publishing
Kogan Page CIP 14 titles for HR courses
Westlaw all books
Fairchild Books - available in Library Search

E- Text Books

Kortext text books
Cambridge University Press (E-Text books) – 700 titles
Westlaw text books
OUP Biosciences collection

Study Skills

Skills For Study
Skills for Study helps students to develop the skills they need to succeed in their studies. We have access to these five modules;
• Getting ready for academic study
• Projects, dissertations and reports
• Writing skills
• Confidence with numbers
• Referencing and understanding plagiarism

Streaming Services

Artfilms
Artfilms streams 1000s of videos supporting the arts curriculum with content from top artists and producers specifically related to the creative arts. Masterclasses, documentaries, interviews: Content to entertain, educate and inform.
Kanopy
A selection of 120+ films, shorts, documentaries and educational videos licensed to University of Westminster.

Box of Broadcasts EU roaming extension ceased

Please note: Any UK registered students in the EU will not be able to access BoB (apart from the BBC News Channel* ) from 1st January 2021.

*BBC and ERA have agreed to make the BBC News Channel open globally via BoB until 30th June 2021. This channel will continue to be available to any UK registered student

Limited Time or Open Access

Equinox e-journals (current content). Linguistics and Popular Music

ProQuest Coronavirus Research Database

JSTOR Archival and primary collections until 30 December 2020

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Guide to Library and Archive Services During COVID-19: New Resources

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