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Add academic value to your assignments by searching the following resources to locate research and other useful material on artists, modelling, character design, storytelling, iconography, art history, pre and post-production, developing style, game environments and significance. Research articles and conference papers can give weight to your arguments whether you agree or disagree with the point of view of the author.
Most will provide an abstract for the article to summarise what it is about - read this to see if you want to access the full text.
You will get the full text online for most results. If the full text is not available, please click on where you see it as this will check for access elsewhere.
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Bloomsbury Visual Arts is an interdisciplinary hub designed for research and learning across design, art, architecture and related fields. It brings together our visual arts resources to provide a richly layered and cross-searchable platform which can be explored using the subject and collection tiles below.
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GDC Vault is a collection of in-depth design, technical and inspirational talks and slides from the influencers of the game development industry, taken from over 20 years of the worldwide Game Developers Conferences.
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For information on how to access GDC Vault go to: Access Instructions
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To access Taylor and Francis Journals Online you must be either:
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a-n The Artist Information Company is widely acknowledged to be a key UK agency for supporting artists and promoting and shaping visual arts practice. a-n offers an online package of essential visual arts publications, toolkits, the a-n magazine and many other resources of use to students of art and design; fine art; visual arts; design management textile design and public art.
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To access Art, Design and Architecture Collection, you must be either:
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All electronic databases are covered by licences, and failure to adhere to the terms of the licences could result in the University losing access to these resources.
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A copy of the full terms of the Art, Design and Architecture Collection licence can be found below.
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To access ProQuest databases you must be either:
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All electronic databases are covered by licences, and failure to adhere to the terms of the licences could result in the University losing access to these resources.
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A copy of the full terms for Art Bibliographies Modern can be found below.
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To access EBSCOhost databases you must be either:
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To access Art and Architecture Archive you must be either:
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A copy of the full terms of the Art and Architecture Archive licence can be found below.
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To access the Art and Architecture Archive, you must be either:
If you are not a member of any of these groups then unfortunately our licence does not allow access to the resource
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All electronic databases are covered by licences, and failure to adhere to the terms of the licences could result in the University losing access to these resources.
All databases are provided for educational use only.
A copy of the full terms for the Art and Architecture Archive can be found below
List of electronic resource licences (A-D) (This link opens in a new window)
Can I access this resource?
To access ProQuest databases you must be either:
If you are not a member of any of these groups then unfortunately our licence does not allow access to the resource
Use of licenced material
All electronic databases are covered by licences, and failure to adhere to the terms of the licences could result in the University losing access to these resources.
All databases are provided for educational use only.
A copy of the full terms for ProQuest databases can be found below.
To access the e-journals off campus use your IT username and password.
Newspapers can be really useful primary sources for both up-to-date and historical research. They reflect the time period, the society and the culture in which they were published.
PressReader has over 7000 newspapers and magazines from over 100 countries in 60 different languages. Issues of magazines and newspapers appear as they would do in print as soon as they are published.
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PressReader has over 7000 newspapers and magazines.
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This comprehensive news collection is ideal for exploring issues and events at the local, regional, national and international level. Its diverse source types include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts and videos.
It includes 221 full-colour image edition newspapers from across the world.
Use it to explore a specific event or to compare a wide variety of viewpoints on topics such as politics, business, health, sports, cultural activities and people. Content is easily searched and sorted through an intuitive, map-based interface.
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