Creative Technologies databases

ACM Digital Library

  • Full text of all ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) journals, newsletters and conference proceedings.
  • Included in the main library search.

AES (Audio Engineering Society) E-Library

  • Over 13,000 fully searchable PDF files documenting the progression of audio research from 1953 to the present day.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Box of Broadcasts (BoB)

  • Off-air recording and media archive service.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

British Library Sounds

  • Contains over 12,000 recordings from the British Library's Sound Archive of the spoken word, music, interviews and sound effects.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

BSOL (British Standards Online)

  • The British Standards Institute's flagship database of standards.
  • Included in the main library search.

Business Source Complete

  • UK and international business, management and economics issues across a range of sectors including construction, IT, education, and health.
  • Included in the main library search.

Cambridge Journals Online

  • Cambridge Journals Digital Archive contains the full text from 170 journals, from volume 1, issue 1 to 1996.
  • Included in the main library search.

Choral Public Domain Library

  • Charity run database providing access to public domain choral scores, texts, translations and other related content.
  • Users are responsible for checking the copyright terms of the work as displayed on the site due to variance between UK and US legislation.
  • Included in the main library search.

Education & Bass

  • An online music production school giving students free access to online music education videos, over 1000 courses, tutorials and lectures for all electronic genres.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

GDC Vault

  • A trove of in-depth design, technical, and inspirational talks and slides from the influencers of the game development industry.
  • Taken from over 20 years of the worldwide Game Developers Conferences.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Grove Music Online

  • A dynamic research tool combining the full text of the 29-volume print edition.
  • Sophisticated search capabilities, one-click cross-referencing, and an ever increasing network of web-links to musical sites around the world.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

IEEE Xplore

  • IEL includes full-text access for: IEEE journals and conference proceedings, IEE journals and conference proceedings, IEEE standards and over 400 Wiley-IEEE e-books.
  • Included in the main library search.

Independent Local Radio

  • Audio files from four archives of Independent Local Radio from 1973 to 1996.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Knovel

  • Knovel contains over 3,000 electronic books covering a wide range of engineering, transportation, and sustainability topics.
  • Includes Material Property Search and Knovel Data Analytics
  • Included in the main library search.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

  • All content from the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series from the last 2 years.
  • Included in the main library search.

Open Score

  • A crowd funded/sourced collection of public domain works and original works.
  • Users are responsible for checking the copyright terms of the work as displayed on the site due to variance between UK and US legislation.
  • Included in the main library search.

O'Reilly Online Learning

  • Training guides for those in the field of IT, including developers, web designers and creative professionals.
  • Includes books, videos, case studies, interactive tutorials, audio books and video.
  • Included in the main library search.

Oxford History of Western Music

  • The Oxford History of Western Music offers an unmatched account of the evolution of Western classical music.
  • Includes all 1.25 million words, 500 images, and 1,800 musical examples
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Petrucci Music Library (International Music Score Library Project)

  • A community wiki allowing the archiving and access of public domain music scores and performances.
  • Users are responsible for checking the copyright terms of the work as displayed on the site due to variance between UK and US legislation.
  • Included in the main library search.

Routledge Handbooks Online Music Collection

  • Routledge Music handbooks and companions revolve around current topics such as Music and Cognition, and evolving areas of study like music and visual culture, and popular music analysis.
  • Included in the main library search.

SAGE Research Methods

  • A web-based research methods tool created to help researchers, staff and students with their research projects.
  • SRM focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, so can be used by researchers from the social sciences, health sciences and more.
  • Included in the main library search.

Scopus

  • The largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings.
  • Fields of research include science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
  • Included in the main library search.

SpringerLink

  • A collection of full-text journals covering subject areas such as biological sciences, computing, engineering and environment, humanities, mathematics and statistics, medicine and health, physical sciences and chemistry.
  • Includes a number of e-books on business, law, and computer science, as well as Lecture Notes in Computer Science for the last three years.
  • Included in the main library search.

Taylor & Francis

  • Provides access to over 2,500 full-text journals published by Taylor & Francis, Routledge, Psychology Press and Informa Healthcare.
  • Included in the main library search.

Taylor & Francis eBook Collection

  • Provides access to over 400 eBooks published by the Taylor & Francis publishing group.
  • Included in the main library search.

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