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Computing Library Resources

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Helen Rayner

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Key databases relevant for Computing and Creative Computing are listed below. A full list of all our databases can be found on the Databases page:

  • JSTOR: a database that provides access to a huge number of academic journals on all topics.
  • AI in Society: explores how AI is transforming the world we live in, and the challenges and debates it brings with it.
  • Art, Design & Architecture: the key online resource for art and design. Includes access to hundreds of journals. Select Full Text under the search box, and for the most academic articles, select Peer-Reviewed.
  • BoB is a TV and radio steaming service for education. You can view, record, create clips and share broadcast programmes and films from over 60 TV and radio channels. 
  • Business Source Ultimate: articles on companies, brands and products. Also includes company reports and market research.
  • Cite Them Right: all the guidance you need to reference resources in your academic work.
  • Euromonitor: articles,company profiles, market research reports and case studies of businesses.
  • Game Development and Animation Collection (Packt): includes software-focused and hands-on content for students of video game design and digital animation, from Packt Publishing. 
  • Kanopy: a film streaming service offering feature films, shorts and documentaries.
  • LinkedIn Learning: videos for learning software, creative, design, and business skills. New courses and videos are added every week. 
  • Gale OneFile: News: a UK newspaper database and a good source of exhibition reviews and articles about artists. Tutorial
  • Statista: a data platform with forecasts on over 400 industries. It also features many thousands of reports on a wide range of subject areas.
  • Video Gaming - Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive: core US and UK popular and trade magazines covering video games, film, music, broadcasting, and theatre.

 

Here is a selection of relevant e-journals for Computing and Creative Computing. If you're looking for a particular e-journal title, or for more titles, use our Journals A-Z.: 

 

  • ACM SIGCHI Conference Proceedings papers from CHI, CHI PLAY, and many other conferences.
  • ARXIV -  open-access archive for nearly thousands of scholarly articles in the fields of computer science, systems science, physics, maths, statistics etc. 
  • DBLP - computer science bibliography of open-access publications. 
  • GitHub - collaborative software platform which also offers free access to ebooks on computing and programming: An index of the books available is here. 
  • Video Game History Foundation - collections of video game development materials, magazines, artwork, ephemera, and more.

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