Introduction to RCA and Imperial College Library Services Cathy Johns, RCA Nicole Urquhart, Imperial College

Introduction to RCA and Imperial Library Services Overview of RCA Library and services Overview of Imperial College Library and services Search demonstration / hands-on Plagiarism and referencing RefWorks

RCA Library Helping you with your dissertation research!

Finding the information you need Resources for research RCA Library Online research tools Using other Libraries

How do I show that I have read widely on my topic? A good bibliographyfootnotes / references

Exhibition Catalogues Periodicals Blogs Online resources Oxford Reference Conference Papers Books Newspapers

How can the RCA Library help me? Library collections: – Books – Journals – Films – Theses – Special Collections Online search resources Access to other libraries

Start with the Library catalogue You can look for: Books Journals Films Theses Pamphlets Filmed lectures Use the drop- down menus to narrow your search

Everything you need at the RCA Library is listed on Space

Online Library Resources on Space

How do I access the RCA’s e-resources toolkit?

Host website platform for finding resources

The Library catalogue tells you which journals the RCA has - But not details of specific articles 4 years’ issues of ‘Design Week’ are held at the RCA Library How do I find journal articles?

CSA Illumina Art Bibliographies Modern (ABM) Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals British Humanities Index (BHI) Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI) Advance d Search

Article search for keywords ‘product*’ and ‘sustainable’ You can truncate the word with an * to allow more possibilities e.g. product* will search for products, production,

How to narrow down 1204 results?

Add another keyword!

56 results found

Full record You can save, print or the results, and see whether the RCA Library has the journal article you’ve found

Whole articles available on JSTOR

Whole articles available on Art Full Text

Other useful web resources Digimap Film and Sound online Oxford Reference Online British Film Institute screenonline

Digimap

Film and Sound Online

Oxford Reference Online

British Film Institute: screenonline

RCA library’s online journals (full text) Ebsco host EJS

Don’t forget - Online Library Resources all listed with links on Space

Where else can I get journals? Click on search catalogues to locate material in London’s academic libraries

Select the area within the M25

A list of the Libraries selected to search are written below

for access to other academic libraries Click here to see if you can have access to the specific institution

Other National Libraries National Art Library – V&A Major art reference library RCA ID to join Order books online in advance Not a browsing collection British Library Reference Library for resources unavailable elsewhere. Full ID and proof of address and reason for access required

Local Resources Kensington & Chelsea Public Library You need to provide full ID and proof of address required Imperial College RCA ID to join – access to online resources

Inter Library Loan If you are unable to locate a key text we can order it as an inter-library loan from the Books £5 Articles £4

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Can I get more help? Come and see us at the RCA Library desk Or

Imperial College Library Services and Support Nicole Urquhart

Thank you! Cathy Johns – Nicole Urquhart –