WestminsterResearch

One way of monitoring the research output of the university is to look regulary at WestminsterResearch. This is the university's institutional repository - where academics are encouraged to log their publications etc. It is managed by ISLS.

As well as browsing all content, you can also browse by author or just view School of Media, Art & Design research (you can also create an RSS feed from this page).

The content of WestminsterResearch is now included within Library Collections Search (soon to be renamed Library Search!); and is also included in the Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) and the Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR).  The repository is also indexed by Google scholar. 

The presence of research citations on these sites should increase the visibility of the university's research output.

Art Full Text - online introduction

One of the databases searched within Library Search 'Articles & more' is Art Full Text.  You don't have to access the 'native' interface, but there are a few features that you might find useful, so I have embedded an online presentation on Art Full Text below. 

It is not the most exciting presentation in the world, but it does provide a useful summary of some of the features:

Coverage; Subject headings; Images of art works; Search fields; Biographical data; Advanced search menu; Email and RSS alerts; Saving articles; Saving searches; Translation of articles; Conversion to audio / saving audio files; Automated referencing



To access the native interface, go to Library Search and search for 'art full text' within the 'Books, journals & more' tab.  You can also try this with 'art bibliographies modern.'

NB: if you are asked for a username and password, ignore and look for 'Shibboleth access via UK federation'

If you have any questions about Art Full Text, please contact me.

New ebooks for digital imaging

The following ebooks have recently been added to the collection:

Davies, A. (2005). The Focal digital imaging A-Z, 2nd ed. Focal Press.

Easton, R. L. Jr. (2010). Fourier methods in imaging. John Wiley & Sons.

Galer, M. and Horvat, L. (2005). Digital imaging, 3rd ed. Focal Press.

Jacobson, R. E. et al (2000). The manual of photography: photographic and digital imaging, 9th ed. Focal Press.

Russ, J. C. (2008). The image processing handbook, 5th ed. CRC Press.


Other ebooks in the collection that are relevant to digital imaging include the following:

Bovik, A., ed. (2009). The essential guide to image processing, 2nd ed. Academic Press.

Keelan, B. W. (2002). Handbook of image quality: characterization and prediction. Marcel Dekker.

Rees, M. R., ed. (2007). Focal encyclopedia of photography: digital imaging, theory and applications, history, and science, 4th ed. Focal Press.

Nixon, M. S. and Aguado, A. S. (2008). Feature extraction and image processing, 2nd ed. Academic Press.

Sally Mann Interview

I am grateful to the 1000 Words Photography blog, for this video of Sally Mann being interviewed by Charlie Rose in 2003. 'Photography is easier than writing,' she says.





A new exhibition of Sally Mann's work opens at the Photographers' Gallery tomorrow.

The Stanley Kubrick Archive

I visited the Stanley Kubrick Archive yesterday, which was exciting.  The 'Search Room' (above) was designed in the style of the Hilton Space Station in 2001: A Space Odyssey.  This gives it a unique ambience.

The archive - which is now about 80-85% catalogued - is extremely interesting, even if you are not a Kubrick fan, and includes loads of photographs.  These include colour photographs from the set of Lolita, and Weegee's photographs of the pie fight in Dr Strangelove - the only visual record of the scene, as it was not included in the final film.  There are also mountains of material relating to the process of film making - annotated scripts, call sheets, shooting schedules, set design material, costumes, props...etc

The Kubrick Archive is part of the University of the Arts London Archives and Special Collections Centre, which also has other significant collections - the LCC comic collection, and the Eckersley poster collection.  There are also smaller collections relating to film directors John Schlesinger and Thorold Dickinson. 

According to their information sheet, the centre "seeks to inform, inspire, engage and excite a diverse range of audiences in support of their creativity, learning and research in art, design, fashion, communications and the performing arts," which sounds good to me.

Further information about the collection and about visiting the centre is available on their website.

Further reading
Mahurter, S. (2007).  'The Stanley Kubrick Archive at the University of Arts London.'  EVA London Conference,11–13 July 2007.

'The Kubrick Legacy'. University of the Arts London Magazine.  Spring/Summer 2006, pp. 8-17

Stanley Kubrick Archive brochure

Related interest
If you are a Kubrick fan, you may be interested to know that St Albans Museum currently has a Kubrick season (he lived in St Albans).