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Publishing library resources

Your Subject Librarian

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Rory Caddis

Working hours: Monday - Friday

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Email: r.caddis@bathspa.ac.uk

Phone: +44(0)1225875401

Key databases relevant for Publishing are listed below:

  • ARTSTOR supports study in art, architecture, humanities and across disciplines with 300 collections composed of over 2.5 million curated images from outstanding museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates. 
  • Box of Broadcasts – BoB TV and radio streaming service for education. View, record, create clips and share broadcast programmes from over 60 TV and radio channels. BoB video tutorials
  • Early English Books Online This site is a collection of about 100,000 titles taken from the following catalogues and sources:
    • Pollard and Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640);
    • Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700);
    • Thomason Tracts (1640-1661);
    • Early English Books Tract Supplement.
  • Early European Books provides access to full-colour, high-resolution facsimile images of rare and hard-to-access books printed in Europe before 1701. It is an excellent complement to Early English Books Online.
  • Literary Print Culture The Stationers’ Company Archive is one of the most important resources for understanding the workings of the early book trade, the printing and publishing community, the establishment of legal requirements for copyright provisions and the history of bookbinding. 

    Explore extremely rare documents dating from 1554 to the 21st century in this invaluable resource of research material for historians and literary scholars.

  • Gale OneFile: News provides access to full-text newspapers and allows you to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, newspaper section, or other fields. Gale OneFile: News tutorial
  • Oxford English Dictionary is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history and pronunciation of over half a million words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international sources

A full list of all our databases can be found on the Databases page.

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Note that a single e-journal title may be held in several different e-journal collections (databases).  Here is a selection of relevant e-journals for Publishing:

Looking for a particular e-journal title? Use our 'Journals A-Z' search engine.

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Bath Spa Library YouTube for video tutorials on how to use Library resources.

Useful Publishing websites:

Other useful websites:

  • Resources Showcase (Padlet)
  • Bath Spa Library Twitter for up to date information on all Library announcements and events.
  • Bath Spa Library YouTube for video tutorials on how to use Library resources.
  • Library Hub Discover (previously called COPAC)access the catalogues of some of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland. 
  • SCONUL Access SCONUL is a scheme which allows many university library users to borrow or use books and journals at other libraries which belong to the scheme; it covers most of the university libraries in the UK and Ireland.
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