Download - Digital library electronic stuff oct 12
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Digital library: Electronic Stuff
for musicians
Dr Karen McAulay, Music & Academic Services Librarian
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As well as books, music, recordings
• We have a lot of electronic resources too.• Eg, e-books. The catalogue will tell you if it’s
in electronic format, like this. Let’s look …
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Click to see item, then click link
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You’ll always have to login for ebooks
• Logging in tells the ebook provider that you are one of our students.
• Just your normal login.• Choose length of time, from a list of options.• Book ‘disappears’ at end of time. No fines!
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Ebooks and Kindles
• You can read an ebook on a Kindle• Depends on the provider, but you might need
to download a chapter at a time• Hannah’s blogpost - http://
whittakerlive.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/but-can-i-read-your-ebook-on-my-kindle.html
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More electronic stuff
• We subscribe to journals,• Databases,• Streamed sound
• All can be found on the Library/IT website or by going to the Moodle link to our catalogue
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The Library/IT website
• www.rcs.ac.uk > About Us > Library/IT• Two pages – one is complete electronic AZ,
the other is just for databases like Oxford Music Online, and streamed sound.
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If you’re in Moodle …
• Look for the Useful Links tab – which takes you to the catalogue.
• The catalogue has a link to the Library/IT page• Let’s try the Moodle route:- http
://inspire.rcs.ac.uk/my/
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Electronic journals
• We have a lot of different music journals• We also have a database full of back-issues.
It’s called JSTOR• The Moving Wall (!)• You’ll have to login if you’re off-site• Shibboleth (identifying yourself as “one of us”)
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Databases
• Oxford Music Online – a music encyclopedia• RILM – an index of journal articles and books
about music (useful for researching a topic)• SCRAN – Digitised Scottish resources - images
and audiovisual media
• There’s more – take a look for yourself!
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And streamed sound
• Classical Music Library (Alexander Street Press)
• Naxos• If off-site, you need to ……….?• Because you need to identify yourself as ……?• The CML login uses Shibboleth.• It’s DIFFERENT for Naxos external access.
(Shhh!)
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The End
• Take a look at the Electronic Stuff leaflet• Ask me!• Or any other library staff