Follow Collection Images Like Pin Watch Library Catalogue The Library Catalogue enables you to search for books, journals, DVDs, dissertations and online resources within the Library’s collection of over 70,000 resources. The catalogue will provide both details of a resource’s location on the Library shelves and its current availability. http://capitadiscovery.co.uk/gsa/ Useful Shelfmarks There may be times when you simply want to browse the Library shelves for books on particular topics the useful shelfmarks below will help you. 006 Computer graphics 303.483 Digital culture 306 Consumer behaviour 371.33 eLearning and technologies 620.82 Interaction design 629.898 Artificial intelligence 700.26 Intellectual property 700.285 Digital art 721.0285 CAD for architecture 741.6 Data visualisation 741.60285 Software for graphic design 741.63 Web and multimedia design 741.696 Motion graphics 745.04 Anthropometrics 745.20285 Computers for product design 745.209208 Inclusive design 778.5 Sound design 778.5347 Animation design, computer games and storyboarding 778.535 Film editing 778.59 Video art 794.8 Videogames Program Manuals Computer Centre Print and Electronic Journals The following high-quality journals in your subject are currently available in print at Glasgow School of Art Library. Some are also available electronically. Journals are the best way of keeping up-to-date with contemporary practice, because it can take a while for cutting-edge practice to be written up in books. Details of our current print holdings can be found in the Library Catalogue, along with links and access instructions if the journal is electronic. All our print journals are arranged on our shelves alphabetically by title, with the latest issues found in the reading area in the Main Library. Journals are reference only and cannot be borrowed, though individual articles can be photocopied subject to copyright limits. In many cases the Library also has back-runs, and these can be found on rolling shelves towards the back of Level 0. American Cinematographer Animation Blueprint Bomb Cineaste Cinefex Communication Arts Computer Arts Computer Graphics World Creative Review Design Issues Design Journal Digital Arts Digital Creativity Dox Engineering Eureka Imagine Journal of Popular Film and Television Journal of Visual Culture Leonardo Live Design Make: Technology on Your Time New Design New Scientist Sight and Sound Visual Communication Wired Special Collections and Rare Books The Library's Special Collections include a number of rare or valuable titles that may be consulted by anyone with an identified research interest. Given the age and rarity of these items, consultation is by prior appointment only by filling in the viewing request form on the Special Collections website: https://gsalibrarytreasures.wordpress.com/ 3 DVDs The Library has a growing collection of DVDs. DVDs can be borrowed for one week and up to four DVDs may be borrowed at a time. Our collection includes classic and new Hollywood cinema and World Cinema and we purchase and record documentaries and television programmes of academic interest to the GSA community. Our DVDs are shelved into sections. These are: Film, Animation, General Interest Documentaries, Glasgow School of ArtRelated Content, Fine Art, Architecture & Urban Studies, Design & Craft, Fashion & Textiles, Dance, Artist Moving Image & Performance. To explore the DVD collection, follow our thematic GSA Moving Image Library blog: https://gsamovingimagelibrary.wordpress.com/ Dissertations The Library holds copies of dissertations, theses and extended essays written by past GSA students. These cover an enormous range of subjects and can serve as a useful starting-point for further research. All dissertations are indexed in the Library Catalogue, and are available for consultation in the Library. They are not available for loan. Archives and Collections The Glasgow School of Art’s archives and collections are an outstanding resource for the study of art, design, architecture and art education. They comprise of a wide range of material from GSA’s institutional archives to artworks and architectural drawings, textile pieces, plaster casts, photographs and furniture. GSA Archives and Collections Centre have produced Resource Guides that provide an introduction to accessing physical and digital archive sources. Use these guides for an introduction to accessing archives and to navigate your way around the many archive sources available: http://www.gsaarchives.net/guides/ 4 MyGSA MyGSA is a single login that provides access to all your GSA services, from the GSA computer network and email, to the VLE and the Library’s online resources. You will be issued with your MyGSA username and password when you matriculate. The Digital Library In addition to our print collections, you have access to a rich variety of digital content for your research, such as e-journals and multi-media databases (video, images, sound, maps and other resources). A quick way of finding e-content is to enter the name of the e-journal or database you are looking for into the Digital Library search using the link found on GSA Library’s homepage. On-campus, you will normally be directed straight to the resource website. Off-campus, the website will provide an ‘institutional’ or ‘alternative login’ link (called ‘UK Federation’ or ‘Shibboleth’) for you to select and enter your MyGSA login. For journal content, search the Digital Library by journal title. On the library catalogue try: Art and Architecture Complete JSTOR For high-quality copyright-cleared images, search: JISC MediaHub (on library catalogue) National Videogame Archive (on library catalogue) SCRAN VADS For high-quality copyright-cleared multimedia, search: British Library Sounds BFI InView JISC MediaHub (on library catalogue) Your Library Contact Your main point of contact for expert advice is your Academic Liaison Librarian. David Buri E: [email protected] T: +44(0)141 353 4701 Office Hours: 09.00 – 17.00 Monday Friday 5 InfosmART: Info Skills for Creatives InfosmART is a series of easy-to-follow online learning modules in information and research skills for the Glasgow School of Art's learning, teaching and research communities. InfosmART is available 24/7 on the Library Website. You can use InfosmART for help with: Conducting critical reviews of sources Writing bibliographies Finding and evaluating information http://lib.gsa.ac.uk/resources/infosmart/ Managing Your Research Data If you are a postgraduate student, it is important to be thinking about how you record the ‘data’ you are producing at the points where your creative practice and research converge. This is referred to as research data management. ‘Research data’ can take a number of forms - anything from sketches, samples and notebooks, to sets of images, video recordings and presentations. This data is capable of being documented to evidence your output and preserve it for the future. Data can be uploaded to our research repository RADAR; other storage options include the GSA server, computers, USB and external drives, storage boxes and filing cabinets. GSA has produced extra guidance on the topic of ‘Research Data Management: The Basics’ here. A series of online training toolkits to introduce the topic are available here. Open Access to Research 'Open Access’ (OA) refers to unrestricted, online access to the published findings of research. For researchers, OA means increased exposure of your research, and increased access to others’ academic research outputs. The UK Higher Education funding bodies now expect research outputs to be as widely accessible as possible, which can mean depositing a version of a paper in a repository, or making it available through the publisher’s website. At GSA, the repository RADAR contains research outputs by GSA staff, many of which are OA. GSA has produced an Open Access Policy to help support researchers in meeting the requirements for Open Access to their research. The policy can be found here. There is also a short briefing paper on ‘Open Access to Research’ available here. 6
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