Digital library: Electronic Stuff

for musicians

Dr Karen McAulay, Music & Academic Services Librarian

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 …

Click to see item, then click link

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!

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

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

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.

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/

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”)

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!

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!)

The End

• Take a look at the Electronic Stuff leaflet• Ask me!• Or any other library staff