Welcome to your Photography 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.
Books on Photography & Photographers
Sighthill Campus Library has an amazing collection of books for students studying photography, come in and browse or borrow!
Below is a taster of some of the books you will find:
Ernst Haas: The American West
Annie Leibovitz at Work
Sebastião Salgado. GENESIS
The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion
Portrait of Humanity Vol. 1
Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings
Tim Walker: Wonderful Things
Portrait of Britain: Vol.1
Magazines
Sighthill Campus Library has current subscriptions to some fantastic photography magazines, all of which can be requested to another campus, or borrowed to read at home.
Podcasts
Podcasts are a good way to keep up with the latest discussions and trends related to your field of study. Here you can find relevant Podcasts, from trusted organisations and authors, for your subject area.
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
Online Resources
Credo Reference
This is a resource for all subject areas and features reference works such as encyclopaedias, dictionaries, biographies, measurement conversions and quotations.
Gale Databases
Gale databases provide learners with powerful search tools to narrow results and deliver the reliable, timely content they need to be successful researchers.
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.
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.
ClickView currently holds over 120 recordings on photography and photographers:
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.
Some courses relevant to your course 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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