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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/
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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/
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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: d.buri@gsa.ac.uk
T: +44(0)141 353 4701
Office Hours: 09.00 – 17.00 Monday Friday
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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:
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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.
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