Welcome to your Art Subject Research Guide
Watch the video to meet your Academic Digital Library Liaison – Jennifer Ouson, then have a look in the sections below to find useful and relevant resources for your course.
If you are not able to find what you are looking for please contact your Academic Digital Library Liaison, who will be happy to help you with all library and subject research needs.
Magazines
The library has print magazines covering Art, Photography, Fashion & Textiles, Graphic Design, Typography, Printmaking, and so much more.
Why not come in and start with our shelf of Art magazines, including Art Review, Pressing Matters, and Tate etc.
If you like reading art magazines you can borrow 4 at once and take them home.
Art Review
Founded in 1949, ArtReview is one of the world’s leading international contemporary art magazines, dedicated to expanding contemporary art’s audience and reach, and tracing the ways it interacts with culture in general.
Pressing Matters
We speak to artists about their creative processes and passion for print. Expect inky fingers, creative workspaces, sketchbooks and prints made using all kinds of techniques and mediums.
Tate etc.
Tate Etc. is an arts magazine produced within Britain’s Tate organisation of arts and museums. Delve further into exhibitions, artist’s perspectives and highlights from Tate’s archives. Get art essays, interviews, cutting-edge studio work and more.
Art Monthly
Art Monthly keeps you in touch with the art world through in-depth features, interviews with artists, Artlaw, profiles on emerging artists and coverage of major trends and developments
FRIEZE
Launched in 1991, frieze is a leading magazine of contemporary art and culture featuring essays, reviews and columns by today’s most forward-thinking writers.
Aesthetica
Aesthetica Magazine is a destination for art and culture, architecture, photography and design. Featuring artists who are contributing to the global dialogue on how art helps us to make sense of our complicated world.
Artforum
Artforum’s artists’ projects, reviews, and critical essays on contemporary visual culture including coverage of film, music, architecture, performance, and media provide rigorous, diverse, and provocative perspectives on cultural trends of our time.
Library Search
eCore is an essential tool for finding, via one single search box, information from the physical and online library resources available to you, including:
- Research Starters
- Library catalogue
- Ebooks
- Magazines articles
- News and newspaper articles
- Encyclopedia articles
- Additional Online Resources
Stack Subscription
We get a different independent magazine delivered to Granton Library from Stack each month, all independent, all creative, so come in and read. If you like them you can borrow them at the library service desk to take away to read at home.
Bloomsbury Visual Arts Hub
Bloomsbury Visual Arts is the leading publisher in the fields of fashion and design, with a fast-growing presence in art history and visual culture and architecture providing access to high quality and cutting-edge scholarship alongside theory and practice texts for students. Bloomsbury Visual Arts digital hub offers access to online collections such as the Design Library, Applied Visual Arts, International Encyclopaedia of Surrealism, Art Markets and more.
Online Resources
Oxford Art Online
The foremost scholarly art encyclopedia, updated regularly and covering global art and architecture from prehistory to present day.
To log in –
- Click on ‘Sign in via your Institution’
- Type or select ‘Edinburgh College’ and click ‘Continue’.
- Enter your standard college username and password, and click ‘Login’.
a-n
a-n is the contemporary visual arts publication, and this web based resource gives you electronic access to current and back issues of a-n Magazine, as well as related publications such as research papers and annuals.
To log in –
- Click on ‘Log in’ from the drop down menu in the top right hand corner.
- Select ‘Log in via your host institution’.
- Type or select ‘Edinburgh College’ and click ‘Continue’.
- Enter your standard college username and password, and click ‘Login’.
Credo
This is a resource for all subject areas and features reference works such as encyclopaedias, dictionaries, biographies, measurement conversions and quotations.
To log in –
- Click on ‘Log in’
- Select ‘Search for your library’ and type ‘Edinburgh College’ into the box.
- Enter your standard college username and password, and click ‘Login’.
Gale Databases
Cross-search content from select Gale products, including Gale’s OneFile periodicals, In Context products, and/or eBooks.
To log in –
- Select ‘Log in via your institution’, then click on the required database.
ClickView
ClickView is Edinburgh College’s media player. It contains TV & Radio programmes recorded from free-to-air channels and Audio & Video produced by staff.
For sign in guidance, please visit our Clickview page.
Linkedin Learning
LinkedIn Learning is an online digital learning website that provides access to a library of video tutorials in the creative, technology, software and business industries.
For sign in guidance, please visit our Linkedin Learning page.
Referencing
Referencing at Edinburgh College: Online Course
Our online course (approx. 30min) provides a simple introduction to referencing and plagiarism using the Harvard system of referencing. If you are new to referencing this is the ideal place to start. We provide introductory guidance on what referencing is, why you need to reference, and how to correctly reference some of the most common sources in your assignments.
The course is divided into 7 sections. Sections have short activities that you can undertake to test your own understanding of the topics you have read about.
Cite Them Right: Referencing Support
This is a comprehensive guide to referencing and plagiarism. Cite Them Right provides full guidance on how to correctly reference all sources in your assignments, with guidance available on Harvard and numerous other styles of referencing.
You can use Cite The Right to help format references, look up answers to your referencing questions, support with paraphrasing and summarising from sources, and follow an in depth tutorial to test your knowledge and learn even more.
Downloadable Guide
This is a double-sided A4 sheet that you can print and take away with you. It details how to reference some of the more common sources you may need to reference and uses the Harvard system of referencing. Please be aware that this is most easily understood after completing our Referencing at Edinburgh College course (approx. 30mins).
Support
Contact Jennifer Ouson at jennifer.ouson@edinburghcollege.ac.uk
Find contact information for the Library team by visiting our Contact and Support page