Welcome to your Dance 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.
Online Resources
Anatomy TV
Anatomy TV provides detailed, interactive 3D models of the human anatomy.
SportDiscus
SportDiscus is a full-text database providing access to sports-related journals as well as e-books and book chapters dating back to 1985.
Issues Online
Issues Online is a reference resource containing information on contemporary social issues, such as education, mental health, poverty, and human rights.
Digital Theatre +
Provides video of more than 300 classic, contemporary and international theatre productions. There are over 230 interviews exploring the theatre-making process as well as essays, documentaries, lectures, and study guides relating to all aspects of theatre.
Credo
A useful resource for all subject areas, featuring reference works such as encyclopedias and dictionaries alongside textbooks.
Gale Databases
Using Gales PowerSearch you can search across newspapers, scholarly journals, and general reference magazines for content on all topics and subjects.
Magazines
The library has a current subscription to Dance Magazine and hold back copies of our previous subscriptions, including Dancing Times, Dance Theatre Journal, and Dance Research.
You might also be interested in exploring other magazines, including TANK, a luxurious quarterly, where each issue delves into a prescient cultural theme- at-large. Or what about i-D, a British magazine dedicated to fashion, music, art and youth culture, and an excellent resource for issues of race, gender and sexuality.
All of these can be found at Granton campus library, and if you like reading our magazines you can borrow 4 to read at home.
Study Skills
You can read our study skills e-books online, helping you to study, reflect and write more effectively. Here are a few to start with:
- The Study Skills Handbook
- Study with Me : Effective Bullet Journaling
- Techniques, Habits, and Hacks To Be Successful, Productive, and Organized
- A-Z Critical Thinking
- Oxford Guide to Effective Argument and Critical Thinking
- Write Great Essays and Dissertations
- Teach Yourself How to Learn
- Mindfulness for Students : Embracing Now, Looking to the Future
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.
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
Campus Libraries
As an Edinburgh College student you can access all four College libraries across our campuses.
Granton Library, Milton Road Library, Sighthill Library and a small library at Midlothian campus.
Our libraries have:
- A variety of both open access and bookable study spaces
- Designated spaces for individual study and group study
- Computer access (Macs and PCs)
- Photocopying and printing facilities
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