General Collection

The following subject headings are useful to find items:

Search the catalogue (Type keywords in the search window, e.g.: typography)

Textbooks & Recommended Readings

Course texts and selected recommended readings are held in the restricted loan collection.
Please ask for them at the front service desk. Your tutors should provide you with a full list of readings.

Course texts - two hour loan. Selected recommended readings - three day loan.

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The Reference Collection

Online Reference books

Britannica Online - a great all round general online encyclopedia with links to millions of articles, definitions, facts, etc. (password required off campus).

Credo Reference (formerly XRefer Plus) is a completely customizable ready-reference solution for learners and librarians. Its full-text, aggregated content covers every major subject from the world's best publishers of reference. There are over 225 titles consisting of an aggregate of 2.9 million entries all interconnected by over 100,000,000 links.

. The list of titles includes -

A Biographical Dictionary of Artists, Andromeda

The Bloomsbury Guide to Art

The Bridgeman Art Library Archive

The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of 20th Century Architecture

The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Art Terms

The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Art and Artists

The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of British Art

The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Design Since 1900

The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Fashion and Fashion Designers

The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Graphic Design and Designers

The Thames & Hudson Encyclopaedia of Impressionism

Read the full reference book online:

Arts and Humanities Through the Eras , 5v,  2005

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Journals

Journals provide current ideas and information on a subject.
The catalogue states what volumes/issues we hold. It cannot tell you what articles are inside of each journal. Use a database to find articles - see below.

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Databases

Use an electronic database to easily find journal articles. Type keywords in the database search window.

Search all Ebscohost databases:

Avery Index - Architectural Periodicals
Created by the Getty Research Institute, comprehensive American guide to the current literature of architecture and design. This database surveys more than 2,500 US and foreign journals and also provides nearly 13,000 citation records for architects' obituaries. Abstracts only - not full text.

Academic Search Elite
Academic Search Elite offers full text for more than 2,000 serials, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. This multi-disciplinary database covers virtually every area of academic study. More than 100 journals have PDF images back to 1985. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCO host .

MasterFILE Premier
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,700 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 202,164 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCO host.

Professional Development Collection
Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of 520 high quality education journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.

Gale Cengage Databases (password required off campus)

Fine Arts and Music Collection
With more than 150 full-text magazines and journals covered in databases such as the Wilson Art Index and RILM, this collection will provide support for research in areas such as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.

General OneFile 1980 - JUN, 2008
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.

Intute
Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research in Science & Technology, Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences, Health & Life Sciences. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in our database and write high quality descriptions of the resources. The database contains 114487 records.