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Computing Library Resources

Your Subject Librarian

Melissa Collier-Banfield

Working hours: Monday - Wednesday, 9am - 2pm & Thursday, 9am - 5pm

Email: m.collier-banfield@bathspa.ac.uk

Phone: +44(0)1225876050

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:

  • : explores how AI is transforming the world we live in, and the challenges and debates it brings with it.
  • : 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.
  • provides news, information, and tools for business leaders and financial market players, across a number of sectors. To get full access press the 'Sign In' button at top right hand side of the screen and enter your @bathspa.ac.uk email address, and click “Continue”. You will be automatically redirected to the ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿ single sign-on page. (You don't need to create a new account).
  • 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. 
  • : articles on companies, brands and products. Also includes company reports and market research.
  • : all the guidance you need to reference resources in your academic work.
  • : articles,company profiles, market research reports and case studies of businesses.
  • : includes software-focused and hands-on content for students of video game design and digital animation, from Packt Publishing. 
  • : a database that provides access to a huge number of academic journals on all topics.
  • : a film streaming service offering feature films, shorts and documentaries. 
  • : a UK newspaper database and a good source of exhibition reviews and articles about artists. 
  • : a data platform with forecasts on over 400 industries. It also features many thousands of reports on a wide range of subject areas.
  • : 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 .: 

  • (1 year delay)

 

  • - open-access articles, books and conference papers.
  •  papers from CHI, CHI PLAY, and many other conferences.
  • -  open-access archive for nearly thousands of scholarly articles in the fields of computer science, systems science, physics, maths, statistics etc. 
  • - computer science bibliography of open-access publications. 
  • - collaborative software platform which also offers free access to ebooks on computing and programming: . 
  • - collections of video game development materials, magazines, artwork, ephemera, and more.

ALSO...

  •  (previously called COPAC) access the catalogues of some of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland. 
  •  SCONUL is a scheme which allows university library users to borrow or use books and journals at other libraries which belong to the scheme. 
  • Inter-Library Loans: for an article or book that we don’t have access to, apply for a copy from a non Bath Spa Library here.

  • for free, open access online books.

  • for free open access textbooks in most subjects

  • for free, open access online journals.

  • for research repository content at universities (JISC).

  • for theses and dissertations (EBSCO).
  •  for video tutorials on how to use Library resources.