Welcome to your Make-up Artistry 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
Screen Studies is a dynamic digital platform designed to support moving-image studies. It offers a broad range of content including books, screenplays, overview articles and learning resources from Bloomsbury, Faber & Faber, the British Film Institute, Focal Press and Auteur (LUP). It is an essential resource for academics and students engaged in research and learning in film history, theory, and practice.
Digital Theatre plus is the home of unique films of leading British theatre productions.
Digital Theatre Plus offers exclusive behind-the-scenes documentaries, and it provides written teaching and learning resources which aid deeper understanding of the productions and texts.
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.
The foremost scholarly art encyclopedia, updated regularly and covering global art and architecture from prehistory to present day.
Browse and search the full contents of US Vogue magazine in full color, from the first issue in 1892 to the present. Every page, advertisement, cover and fold-out has been included, enabling you to find articles and images by garment type, designer and brand names.
Magazines
Our libraries have current subscriptions to some fantastic magazines that are useful to make-up artistry, including Sight and Sound, i-D, TANK, Vogue Paris, and ZoomOnFashionTrends. There are also historic stacks of back copies including Pop, Love, Dazed&Confused, Vogue UK and Vogue Italia.
Tank
Tank not only covers luxurious fashion shoots, but each issue also delves into a prescient cultural theme- at-large. Held at Granton.
i-D
i-D is an iconic British magazine founded by designer and former Vogue art director Terry Jones in 1980, and dedicated to fashion, music, art and youth culture, plus it is an excellent resource for issues of race, gender and sexuality. Held at Granton.
ZoomOnFashionTrends
A forecasting magazine that uses moodboard image collections to explore four predicted themes that will be on trend over the coming seasons. Full of rich imagery, colour palettes, and runway photoshoots. Held at Granton.
Sight and Sound
BFI’s magazine for film commentary and criticism.
Held at Milton Road.
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
Books
Make-up Artistry relies on incorporating into your practice many areas of research, including the theatre, film and arts industries, creativity and interpretation, technical skills, business management and start-up, anatomy and health & safety, in addition to historic research, considering the many factors and events that have effected people across the world and over time.
Granton campus library books to help you do all of that. Come into the library at Granton and get started.
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.
Highlights include:
- Glow-up (2023) Amazing transformations and stunning creations from aspiring MUAs competing to become Britain’s next make-up star
- The Big Blow Out (2022) AJ Odudu hosts the series searching for the next generation of super creative hair stylists
- Hair Power: Me and My Afro (2020) A taboo-busting look at how Afro-textured hair shapes Black experience and is often hidden, plagiarised or stigmatised
- Black History & Anti-Racism recordings
- LGBTQ+ recordings
- 750 feature films
+ recordings for Costume, Fashion, History, and Art
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.
Highlights include:
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
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