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Curating

Essential

The following resources are considered the most useful to use for your course:

Art Full text contains subject relevant academic journals, magazines and books. Covers the arts, artists, history of art, design, graphic design, architecture, metalwork, jewellery, cultural policy, visual culture, museums, film and more.

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Where else to search

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OnCurating titles available online - Click on the image to get full-text access

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e-flux Journal titles available online - Click on the image to get full-text access

e-flux Journal covers

To access the e-journals off campus use your IT username and password.

PressReader has over 7000 newspapers and magazines. Relevant titles include:

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International Artist London Magazine Art Press
Digital Camera World Practical Photography Digital Photographer

Search Discovery

Find books, ebooks, articles, video and more

Searching Discovery

Discovery is a useful resource to use to get started with searching for literature. It searches the wealth of our library collections and many of our academic databases simultaneously. Below is a link to the Discovery search, as well as two short video guides that demo how to search it more effectively ...

Basic search video guide

Advanced search video guide

Journals

What are journals?

They are:An image of several journal titles

  • like magazines but of a scholarly nature
  • published at regular intervals
  • contain articles on a variety of topics
  • the articles are written by multiple authors.

Why should I use them?

  • using information from journals will keep you up to date and informed of new developments in your subject
  • journals articles give you more detailed information in a more scholarly and concise format
  • quality research - academic rigour - peer reviewed.