My links
Art Rabbit [Art exhibitions around the world]
Books on recent exhibitions | RSS feed
Delicious (Social bookmarking site)
Exciting citing - finding and using information for a dissertation
Library Guides - available from my public dropbox folder
New Exhibitions [Photography]
Useful libraries and bookshops (Google Map)
University of Westminster
Academic Staff (School of Media, Art and Design]
CREAM [Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media]
DocWest [Centre for Production and Research of Documentary Film at University of Westminster]
European League of Institutes of Arts
European League of Institutes of Arts
Library and IT Training [intranet page]
Westminster Research : MAD [the Media, Arts and Design section of our institutional repository]
Search tools
Amazon (UK) [Useful for identifying titles, and viewing table of contents and index, as well as buying]
BFI Collections Search [British Film Institute search]
COPAC [union catalogue of UK research libraries. See guide.]
Ethos [Electronic Theses Online Service]
Google Books [for searching the contents of books]
Google Scholar [a broad search of academic sources]
Advice about how to sign in to Google Scholar, so that it links to University of Westminster subscriptions.
Inform25 [union catalogue of London-area university libraries - replaces Inform25]
Library Search
Library Catalogue (retro catalogue)
SUNCAT [union catalogue for serials - use to track down journals and magazines]
WorldCat [International union catalogue of library catalogues]
Open access tools
CORE - an aggregated search of UK repositories (it's like Google Scholar for UK research repositories). Further information.
DART-Europe - research theses from a consortium of European research libraries
DOAB - Directory of Open Access Books
EThOS [Electronic Theses Online Service from the British Library. Selected items available for download after registration]
JURN - a search of free academic articles, chapters and theses, powered by Gooogle Custom Search
OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) is a collaborative initiative to develop and implement a sustainable Open Access publication model for academic books in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
OAIster [Union catalogue of open access resources, provided by OCLC/Worldcat] Further information
OpenDOAR Search | Search contents of open access repositories listed on OpenDOAR [Directory of Open Access Repositories]
OpenDepot Search | Search of e-prints from researchers at institutions that do not have an institutional repository
PQDT Open [Provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge]
ROAR Search | Search contents of repositories listed on ROAR [Registery of Open Access Repositories]
SHERPA Search | Search of UK repositories
Other useful links
ACRL Visual Literacy Standards
BUFVC Audiovisual Citation Guidelines
Association of Learning Development in Higher Education
JournalTOCs
Literature Review: Information Literacy and Creative practitioners
London Centre for Book Arts
Photojournalismlinks - the best photojournalism on the web