Resources for Communication Design

Subject Librarian: Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design

Marie Simmons
Duncan of Jordanstone Library
Telephone: 01382 385252
Marie Simmons

Covers: Animation, Illustration and Graphics

Library Catalogue
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Latest titles added to the catalogue More »
McNiff, Shaun Art heals : how creativity cures the soul
The list. no. 697 (2012: June)
Pipes, Alan How to design websites
Klanten, Robert Echoes of the future : rational graphic design & illustration
Altitude Associates (Design firm) The best of cover design : books, magazines, catalogs, and more
CrossSearch
- Use CrossSearch to search many databases at once. (What is CrossSearch?) Choose from one of the following QuickSets:
  Art, Design + Media
  ARTbibliographies Modern (CSA), Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (CSA), DAAI: Design and Applied Arts Index (CSA), JSTOR, National Art Library catalogue and University of Dundee Library catalogue.
  Art, Design + Media images
  Luxonline - British based film and video art and SCRAN.

Electronic resources password information

Electronic books
- Electronic books
Online journal indexes
- ADIT: Art & Design Index to Theses "The first comprehensive index of postgraduate research theses in art and design in the UK. Includes abstracts."
- Art Full Text . Also Art Index Retrospective. Articles from journals covering fine, decorative and commercial art, both historical and contemporary. Full text from articles published since 1997, abstracts from 1994 and index from 1929. Off campus select Shibboleth login, then the UK Higher Education group and then the University of Dundee.
- Art Index Retrospective . Off campus select Shibboleth login, then the UK Higher Education group and then the University of Dundee.
- Art bibliographies Modern. Full abstracts of journal articles, books and exhibition catalogues, in modern and contemporary art.
- AVERY. Coverage includes urban planning, landscape architecture and historic preservation.
- Design and Applied Arts Index
- FIAF International Film Archive
- NEXIS. Includes online UK and international newspapers.
- SCOPUS . Journals index with abstracts.
- Web of Knowledge . Journals index with abstracts.
- ZETOC . British Library Electronic Table of Contents Service: contents of journals and conference proceedings from 1993 to date, updated daily. Includes an email alerting service so you can keep up-to-date with your subject area. Choose "Dundee, University of" from the drop-down list of universities when logging in.
Image and sound collections
- Art Museum Image Gallery . 100,000 images from museums and galleries worldwide which may be downloaded for educational use. Off campus select Shibboleth login, then the UK Higher Education group and then the University of Dundee.
- BFI (British Film Institute) Screenonline: the definitive guide to Britain's film and TV industry. On-campus access only
- Box of Broadcasts. "BoB is an off-air recording and media archive service. BoB is available to staff and students of member institutions of the British Universities Film & Video Council that hold an ERA+ licence. This TV scheduling service allows you to record TV and radio programmes that are scheduled to be broadcast over the next seven days as well as retrieving programmes from the last seven days from a selected list of recorded channels." Type 'University of Dundee' then login with your username and password.
- Bridgeman Education. "Bridgeman Education database offers access to over 200,000 images. Images should not be made available on the internet or used for publication or lectures outside the University of Dundee. All downloaded images from Bridgeman should have the following credit "Copyright The Bridgeman Art Library - London, New York, Paris." For off campus access click on Login, then on login via UK Access Management Federation, and enter University of Dundee.
- British Artists' Film and Video Study Collection: "is dedicated to documenting the achievements of British moving-image artists. It contains over 4000 video copies of artists' works, approximately 5000 still images, files on 450 artists, a library of over 1000 books and magazines, a collection of historical posters and publicity materials, and documentation relating to key artist-led organisations, public funding bodies, etc."
- British Library Archival Sound Recordings. British Library archival sound recordings:an audio resource for UK higher and further education. Anyone can search and browse the information on this site Click on Log-in and select the University of Dundee.
- JISC MediaHub. JISC Media Hub provides a single point of access to video, image and sound resources from many different providers, including Associated Press, the Biochemical Society Archive, Channel 4, Culverhouse Classical Music, Gaumont, Getty, Imperial War Museum, ITN, Reuters, Royal Geographical Society, St Georges Hospital Medical School and Wellcome. It includes television news, documentary films, still images and classical music, and covers a wide range of academic subjects. The content is licensed for educational and research use, and access is provided via an easy-to-use interface, which can cross-search all the available collections. Log in via the UK Federation and select the University of Dundee.
- Luxonline: the single most extensive publicly available resource devoted to British film and video artists. Streaming video clips, new writings, past articles and biographies provide a comprehensive contextual background to the artists featured on the site
- Origins of American Animation: charts the development of early American animation
- Scottish Screen Archive: Scotland's national moving images collection at the National Library of Scotland.
- SCRAN - Scottish Cultural Resources Network. A digital cultural and historical resource. Over 300,000 images, movies and sounds from museums, galleries, archives and the media downloadable for educational purposes. A major resource on the material culture of Scotland. Select Shibboleth login, then the University of Dundee, and login with your username and password.
- TRILT Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching. A comprehensive online listings service for UK television and radio designed especially for educational users. It carries complete schedules from 2001 onwards for over 330 different channels, including digital, satellite and cable television, local and national radio stations and regional variations. At the 'Where are you from' prompt, select University of Dundee from the drop-down menu.
- Visual Arts Data Service: 100,000 images free for use in education
Subject gateways
- Intute: Internet resources for your subject
- Virtual Training Suite: Internet skills tutorials and subject-related links
- Animation World network
Other Internet Resources
- Association Internationale du Film d'Animation: official homepage of the International Animated Film Association
- Aardman Animations
- AN: The Artists Information Company: stimulating and supporting contemporary visual arts practice. Provides an inspiring critical space to research, analyse and debate contexts for practice now and in the future.
- ARTINFO: "The online destination of Louise Blouin Media, the world's leading cultural media group. ......offers breaking news, profiles of top and emerging artists, stories about collectors and collecting, gallery round-ups from around the world, the best of student art, market trends and analysis, and detailed coverage of art fairs."
- Blue Sky Studios
- "The Digital Artists Handbook is a new, up to date, reliable and accessible source of information that introduces artists to different tools, resources and ways of working related to digital art"
- Disney
- DreamWorks: producer of animated and feature films
- Gnomon Workshop
- Klasky Csupo Studios
- Kratky Film Studio
- Pixar Studios
- Warner Bros
- American Film Institute
- American Museum of the Moving Image
- Ars Electronica
- Association of illustrators
- British Film Institute
- British Universities Film & Video Council. If prompted by the 'Where are you from' screen, select the University of Dundee from the drop-down menu.
- C3 Centre for Culture and Communication, Budapest
- Electronic Arts Intermix: resources for artists' video and interactive media
- European Media Art Festival
- Lux Centre: artists' film, video and emerging media
- National Museum of Photography Film and Television
- Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/Time Based Arts
- New Media Scotland
- Performing Arts Data Service: collects, documents, preserves and promotes the use of scholarly digital resources in music, theatre, dance, film, and the broadcast arts
- Scottish Arts Council [site no longer supported, replaced by Creative Scotland]
- Skillset: the Sector Skills Council for Broadcast, Film, Video and Interactive media: offering information on careers, courses and funding
- Society of Illustrators (American)
- V2 Organisation: Institute for the Unstable Media
- Worldwide Video Festival
- Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Centre for Art and Media in Karlsruhe: includes the Institute for Visual Media

DVD and video sources
- British Board of Film Classification: information on films with a BBFC certificate
- Facets Multimedia: specialist US retailer
- Internet Movie Database: online collection of movie information, with links to Amazon retailers
- Moviemail: UK retailer of DVDs and videos
- Sendit Video: UK retailer of DVDs and videos
- Video Data Bank: the leading resource in the United States for videotapes by and about contemporary artists

Non-Internet Resources (CD-ROMs available at DOJ issue desk)
- Complete index to world film