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- ACM Digital Library (Association for Computing Machinery) This link opens in a new windowIncludes all ACM magazines, journals & proceedings, plus some publications by affiliated organisations.
Partially in Library Search - Art & Architecture Source This link opens in a new windowArt & Architecture Source (previously Art Source) covers a broad range of related subjects, from fine, decorative and commercial art, to various areas of architecture and architectural design. Providing over 600 full-text journals, more than 220 full-text books, and a collection of over 63,0000 images, it is designed for use by a diverse audience, including art scholars, artists, designers, students and general researchers.
Partially in Library Search - Artfilms This link opens in a new windowArtfilms-Digital is the video streaming service of Contemporary Arts Media and Artfilms, offering more than 5000 films from around the world for arts education and arts practitioners.
Not in Library Search - Arts & Humanities Full Text This link opens in a new windowThis database features hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies.
In Library Search - Arts Premium Collection This link opens in a new windowThe Arts Premium Collection is a tool for cross-checking the Art, Design & Architecture Collection, Music & Performing Arts Collection, and the Screen Studies Collection.
In Library Search - ArtSTOR This link opens in a new windowArtstor is a digital library of more than 2 million high-quality images for education and research from a wide variety of contributors around the world.
Not in Library Search - Box of Broadcasts (BoB) This link opens in a new windowBoB is Learning on Screen’s on demand TV and radio service for education. Our academically-focused system allows staff and students at subscribing institutions to record programmes from over 65 free-to-air channels, and search our extensive archive. Please note that due to licensing restrictions users can only access this resource from within the UK
Not in Library Search - BrowZine This link opens in a new windowUse BrowZine to easily browse, read, and monitor thousands of journals.
In Library Search - Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
To access this resource please register for free membership to Senate House Library.
The industry's most widely used business research database, this collection features full text and searchable cited references for top journals covering a variety of business disciplines. In addition, it includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses. A video guide to searching for articles in Business Source Premier can be found here.
Partially in Library Search - DAAI - Design & Applied Arts Index This link opens in a new windowDesign, craft, design education periodicals from 1973 onwards.
Partially in Library Search - Dis.art This link opens in a new windowDIS is a streaming platform for entertainment and education — edutainment. We enlist leading artists and thinkers to expand the reach of key conversations bubbling up through contemporary art, culture, activism, philosophy, and technology. Every video proposes something — a solution, a question — a way to think about our shifting reality.
Not in Library Search - Elsevier ScienceDirect Online This link opens in a new windowFull-text access to a selection of journals published by Elsevier, including former Academic Press titles, with some backfiles going back to 1997. We subscribe to journals in four subject collections: Computer Science, Neuroscience, Psychology and Social Sciences. [Full-text access is indicated by a green icon.]
Partially in Library Search - The Fashion and Race Database This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive resource that seeks to help students, educators, researchers, designers, business professionals and the pedestrian audience learn about the intersections of fashion and race. The goal for the database is to center and amplify BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) fashion scholarship, illuminate under-examined histories and address racism throughout the fashion system. What’s more, this platform provides hands-on research and publishing opportunities to undergraduate and graduate students and showcase exciting work from established BIPOC writers and allies. Not in Library Search
- JSTOR Art and Sciences Collections I-XV This link opens in a new windowGoldsmiths members have access to JSTOR Arts & Sciences collections I-XV. The collections provide access to an archival back run of each journal, often dating back to Vol.1. Current journals are subject to a "moving wall" of access between 2 and 5 years behind the most recently published issue.
Arts & Sciences journals archives is one of several JSTOR databases Goldsmiths have access to. See here for a full list.
In Library Search - Mintel Academic This link opens in a new windowMintel is the world’s leading market intelligence agency, offering data, market research and analysis, competitive intelligence and product intelligence covering various sectors and markets such as foodservice, e-commerce, media and technology. A video guide to the resource can be found here.
Not in Library Search - Mintel Market Sizes This link opens in a new windowMintel Market Sizes provides fast, easy to compare, extractable market data. Mintel Market Sizes is perfectly placed to support preliminary business research into new markets and act as a guide in defining further research requirements.
Not in Library Search - Vogue Archive This link opens in a new windowA complete searchable archive of American Vogue, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images. Every page, advertisement, cover and fold-out has been included, with rich indexing enabling you to find images by garment type, designer and brand names. The Vogue Archive preserves the work of the world's greatest fashion designers, stylists and photographers and is a unique record of American and international fashion, culture and society from the dawn of the modern era to the present day.
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- BrowZine This link opens in a new windowUse BrowZine to easily browse, read, and monitor thousands of journals.
In Library Search - Art & Architecture Source This link opens in a new windowArt & Architecture Source (previously Art Source) covers a broad range of related subjects, from fine, decorative and commercial art, to various areas of architecture and architectural design. Providing over 600 full-text journals, more than 220 full-text books, and a collection of over 63,0000 images, it is designed for use by a diverse audience, including art scholars, artists, designers, students and general researchers.
Partially in Library Search - Arts & Humanities Full Text This link opens in a new windowThis database features hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies.
In Library Search - DAAI - Design & Applied Arts Index This link opens in a new windowDesign, craft, design education periodicals from 1973 onwards.
Partially in Library Search - Elsevier ScienceDirect Online This link opens in a new windowFull-text access to a selection of journals published by Elsevier, including former Academic Press titles, with some backfiles going back to 1997. We subscribe to journals in four subject collections: Computer Science, Neuroscience, Psychology and Social Sciences. [Full-text access is indicated by a green icon.]
Partially in Library Search - JSTOR Art and Sciences Collections I-XV This link opens in a new windowGoldsmiths members have access to JSTOR Arts & Sciences collections I-XV. The collections provide access to an archival back run of each journal, often dating back to Vol.1. Current journals are subject to a "moving wall" of access between 2 and 5 years behind the most recently published issue.
Arts & Sciences journals archives is one of several JSTOR databases Goldsmiths have access to. See here for a full list.
In Library Search - Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window To access this resource please register for free membership to Senate House Library.
The industry's most widely used business research database, this collection features full text and searchable cited references for top journals covering a variety of business disciplines. In addition, it includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses. A video guide to searching for articles in Business Source Premier can be found here.
Partially in Library Search - ACM Digital Library (Association for Computing Machinery) This link opens in a new windowIncludes all ACM magazines, journals & proceedings, plus some publications by affiliated organisations.
Partially in Library Search
Image databases
You can access a number of image databases which contain copyright cleared images for educational use.
- ArtSTOR This link opens in a new windowArtstor is a digital library of more than 2 million high-quality images for education and research from a wide variety of contributors around the world.
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There are also some useful image search engines freely available on the web.
Please check copyright restrictions before using images from these sites.
- British Library - Free vintage images from the British Library collection, for download. Searchable collections.
- Google Image Search - general images search engine
- JISC review of image search engines
- JISC digital media hub - multimedia platform offering digital image, video and audio collections. Log in with Goldsmiths IT passwords.
- VADS (Visual Arts Data Service) - digital image collections for higher education, and guides to creating them. Includes Design Council Archive images and Royal College of Art students work
- Wikipedia : public domain image resources - Listing of public domain image resources.
- Victoria and Albert Museum - search digital images of the V&A's collections of design and applied arts
- Box of Broadcasts (BoB) This link opens in a new windowBoB is Learning on Screen’s on demand TV and radio service for education. Our academically-focused system allows staff and students at subscribing institutions to record programmes from over 65 free-to-air channels, and search our extensive archive. Please note that due to licensing restrictions users can only access this resource from within the UK
Not in Library Search - Kanopy This link opens in a new windowKanopy is a streaming video service for educational institutions. Goldsmiths provide access to a small but growing collection of films.
In Library Search - Artfilms This link opens in a new windowArtfilms-Digital is the video streaming service of Contemporary Arts Media and Artfilms, offering more than 5000 films from around the world for arts education and arts practitioners.
Not in Library Search - Dis.art This link opens in a new windowDIS is a streaming platform for entertainment and education — edutainment. We enlist leading artists and thinkers to expand the reach of key conversations bubbling up through contemporary art, culture, activism, philosophy, and technology. Every video proposes something — a solution, a question — a way to think about our shifting reality.
Not in Library Search
- Vogue Archive This link opens in a new windowA complete searchable archive of American Vogue, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images. Every page, advertisement, cover and fold-out has been included, with rich indexing enabling you to find images by garment type, designer and brand names. The Vogue Archive preserves the work of the world's greatest fashion designers, stylists and photographers and is a unique record of American and international fashion, culture and society from the dawn of the modern era to the present day.
In Library Search
- Mintel Academic This link opens in a new windowMintel is the world’s leading market intelligence agency, offering data, market research and analysis, competitive intelligence and product intelligence covering various sectors and markets such as foodservice, e-commerce, media and technology. A video guide to the resource can be found here.
Not in Library Search - Mintel Market Sizes This link opens in a new windowMintel Market Sizes provides fast, easy to compare, extractable market data. Mintel Market Sizes is perfectly placed to support preliminary business research into new markets and act as a guide in defining further research requirements.
Not in Library Search
- Association for Cultural Equity This link opens in a new windowA free online archive of sound recordings, radio, photographs, video and other resources related to traditional music and creative heritage. The Association for Cultural Equity (ACE) was founded by Alan Lomax with the mission is to stimulate cultural equity through preservation, research, and dissemination of the world's traditional music, and to reconnect people and communities with their creative heritage. The Sound Recordings catalogue comprises over 17,400 digital audio files, beginning with Lomax’s first recordings onto (newly invented) tape in 1946 and tracing his career into the 1990s.
Not in Library Search - British Library Sounds This link opens in a new windowListen to a selection from the British Library’s extensive collections of unique sound recordings, which come from all over the world and cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds. Most items are open access but some require a Goldsmiths login.
Not in Library Search - Community Care Inform Adults This link opens in a new windowA full text resource designed to inform current practice for professionals working with adults. It includes sections on legislation, case law and research.
Not in Library Search - Community Care Inform Children and Families This link opens in a new windowA full text resource designed to inform current practice for professionals working with children and young people. It includes sections on legislation, case law and research.
Not in Library Search - The Fashion and Race Database This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive resource that seeks to help students, educators, researchers, designers, business professionals and the pedestrian audience learn about the intersections of fashion and race. The goal for the database is to center and amplify BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) fashion scholarship, illuminate under-examined histories and address racism throughout the fashion system. What’s more, this platform provides hands-on research and publishing opportunities to undergraduate and graduate students and showcase exciting work from established BIPOC writers and allies. Not in Library Search
- London Community Video Archive This link opens in a new windowThe London Community Video Archive (LCVA) is preserving the work of the Community Video movement in the 1970s and 80s, in London and the South East. In the early 1970s portable video recording equipment became available, and it was possible for the first time for people outside of mainstream broadcasting to make their own television. LCVA’s aim is to draw attention to these unheard voices and images, enabling them to be used in contemporary debates and activism.
Not in Library Search - Our Migration Story This link opens in a new windowOur Migration Story presents the often untold stories of the generations of migrants who came to and shaped the British Isles. While it is primarily designed to support teachers and students studying migration to Britain, its aim is to be a useful resource for anyone interested in Britain’s migration history. Arranged into four time-period categories: AD43-1500; 1500-1750; 1750-1900; 1900-2000s. Across each period, you will find images, quotations, newspaper clippings, Parliamentary reports, videos, poems, extracts from novels, and many other materials that present the successes, challenges, obstacles and surprises faced by Britain’s migrants over more than a thousand years. Not in Library Search
