CREATIVE INDUSTRIES RESOURCES PORTFOLIO

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CREATIVE INDUSTRIES RESOURCES PORTFOLIO

• Marian Kirton
• Information Services Advisor
• m.kirton_at_napier.ac.uk
• 0131 455 2581

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Art Index

• Print format
• Quarterly
• Merchiston Library, Abstracts Indexes section

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CSA Illumina

• Subject Coverage
• All subjects
• Contents
• Journals, conference papers, and reports
• Abstracts only, but SFX links to full text in
  other services
• Conference Papers Index
• Access
• http//www.csa.com
• (Athens password required)

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BHIBritish Humanities Index

• Subject Coverage
• all areas of current humanities research
• Contents
• over 240,000 entries, from 300 key humanities
  periodicals and UK newspapers
• 1985 onwards
• author and subject indexing
• Access - (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
• http//www.csa.com
• requires an Athens password

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Design and Applied Arts Index

• Subject Coverage
• design, applied arts, architecture, photography,
  ergonomics, advertising
• Contents
• indexes more than 450 journals
• coverage back to 1973
• directory of designers, courses, organizations
• Access
• http//www.csa.com
• requires an Athens username

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ASSIA Applied Social Science Index and Abstracts

• Subject Coverage
• covers 600 key English-language social science
  journals published worldwide
• Contents
• abstracts of journal articles
• 1987 onwards
• over 240,000 abstracts
• Access - (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
• http//www.csa.com
• requires an Athens password

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ISI Web of Knowledge

• Web of Science service
• Arts and Humanities Citation Index
• Social Science Citation Index
• Science Citation Index
• together they cover all academic subject
  areas - not just science!
• Contents
• coverage goes back to 1981
• author and keyword searching
• Access (requires an Athens password)
• http//wok.mimas.ac.uk/

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ZetocElectronic Table of Contents from the
British Library

• Subject Coverage
• All subjects, 1993 onwards
• Contents
• bibliographic details only
• covers 20,000 journals and 16,000
  conference proceedings each year
• All items in this database can be
  obtained by Inter-library Loan if no local
  source is available
• Access (remote access requires an Athens
  username)
• - http//zetoc.mimas.ac.uk.

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Expanded Academic ASAP International

• Subject Coverage
• social science, humanities, news, science
  technology, general interest
• Contents
• over 1300 journals in full text
• citations and abstracts for a further 2300 titles
• Access
• http//infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/napier
• remote access requires an Athens username

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IngentaConnect

• Subject Coverage
• All subjects
• Contents
• abstracts and bibliographic citations for a vast
  range of journals click the Fax/Ariel content
  button to search everything
• access to full text journal articles for selected
  publishers, e.g.
• Oxford University Press
• Elsevier, Academic Press (via Science Direct)
• Emerald
• click the Electronic content button to see full
  text only
• Access (requires an Athens password)
• http//www.ingentaconnect.com

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British Education Index /ERIC / Australian
Education Index

• Subject Coverage
• British Education Index 1976 onwards
• Australian Education Index 1978 onwards
• ERIC (US database) - 1966 onwards
• Contents
• covers journal articles, reports, program
  descriptions, curricular materials
• over 700,000 records
• abstracts, but not full text
• Access (remote access requires an Athens
  username)
• http//www2.dialogatsite.com

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Nexis UK

• Subject Coverage
• International news
• Business articles from news and trade journals
• Contents
• Full text of all major UK newpapers
• Full text of a wide range of international
  newspapers
• Access
• http//www.lexisnexis.com/uk/nexis
• remote access requires an Athens username

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Film and Sound Online

• Film and Sound Online - collections of film and
  video resources
• fully downloadable, either in full or as segments
• may be used freely in learning, teaching and
  research
• Contents include extracts from
• Anglia Television Library
• Films of Scotland
• Educational and Television Films Ltd.
• Imperial War Museum
• Royal Mail Film Classics
• Sheffield University Learning Media Unit
  collection
• Access
• http//www.filmandsound.ac.uk/
• Requires an Athens password

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SCRANScottish Cultural Resources Access Network

• Subject Coverage
• SCRAN is a fully searchable resource base of
  Scottish material culture and human history
• Contents
• digitised collections from museums and galleries,
  digitised photographs, resource packs for a wide
  range of historical and cultural studies
• Access
• http//www.scran.ac.uk/
• full access to images available with an Athens
  password

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AHDS Visual Arts

• Subject Coverage
• aims to provide collections of visual arts
  digital resources
• Contents
• includes image databases from the Imperial War
  Museum, London College of Fashion, National Arts
  Education Archive and The Design Council Archive
  student degree show web-sites
• Access
  
• http//vads.ahds.ac.uk/

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Intute Arts Humanities

• Subject Coverage
• Architecture, art, Communications media,
  Culture, Design, Fashion Beauty, Performing
  Arts, Publishing
• Contents
• The hub aims to be the UK Higher and Further
  Education first choice for accessing quality
  online resources for teaching and learning in the
  arts and creative industries.
• Access
  
• http//www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/

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a-nThe Artists Information Company

• Suject coverage
• describes itself as the leading UK agency for
  supporting artists' practice.
• providing an inspiring critical space to
  research, analyse and debate contexts
  for practice now and in
  the future
• promoting networking opportunities for artists
• Services include
• online resource for artists containing practical
  advice on exhibiting, professional development
• a-n magazine in print in Merchiston Library and
  online
• Access
• http//www.a-n.co.uk
• Password-free on campus. Remote access requires
  an Athens password.

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Screen Digest

• global intelligence on screen media
• print format, monthly
• events diary
• news, statistics, market information
• categories film, cinema, television, video,
  wired media, satellite, interactive, games,
  production, audio, on-line
• shelved in Craighouse journals collection
• website www.screendigest.com
• shelved in Journals Collection

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Digimap

• Subject Coverage
• UK Ordnance Survey maps in a variety of scales
  and styles
• Contents
• complete coverage of Great Britain
• data available either to generate maps online,
  
  or to download for use with
  appropriate application
  software such as GIS or
  CAD.
• Access
• http//edina.ac.uk/digimap/
• Athens password required
• you also have to register with Digimap in
  advance, details available from the website

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Index to Theses

• Subject Coverage
• All subjects
• Contents
• All theses accepted for higher degrees by
  universities in GB and Ireland
• Includes abstracts
• Full text of many theses can be ordered via the
  British Librarys British Thesis service
• Access
• http//www.theses.com/
• No password required on campus
• Username and password required for off-campus
  access

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CUDOS Commonwealth Universities Database Online
Service

• Access to the expertise of over 500 universities
  in Africa, Asia, Australasia, Canada, the
  Caribbean, the United Kingdom, Cyprus and Malta.
• Institutions
• Staff
• Research
• Subjects
• Funding
• Access http//www.acu.ac.uk/cudos/
• Requires password

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UK Active Map of Universities and HE
Institutions

• Subject Coverage
• All subjects
• Contents
• Clickable map
• You can choose to go straight to library pages,
  
  academic departments,
  prospectuses etc.
• Access
• http//www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/ukinfo/