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Basic information about Arts, Culture & Technology
This guide provides an overview of the library resources available for Arts, Culture & Technology students.

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Course Reading
Code Course Name
ACT101Bridging Arts, Culture, and Technology
ACT103Visual and Performing Arts
ACT2023D Data Acquisition and Image Processing
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Recommended Databases (Journal Articles)
EBSCOhost - Academic Search Ultimate
EBSCOhost - Academic Search Ultimate offers students an unprecedented collection of peer-reviewed, full-text journals, including many journals indexed in leading citation indexes. The combination of academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos meets the needs of scholars in virtually every discipline ranging from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, law and literacy to mathematics, pharmacology, women's studies, zoology and more.

 

ProQuest Central
ProQuest Central is the largest aggregated multi-disciplinary full-text database across all major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Language and Literature, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, Philosophy, and includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.

 

ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect is Elsevier's premier platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature. It advances research and scholarship with the world's leading database of peer-reviewed, full-text scientific, technical and health literature. There are 21M articles & book chapters, 800 open-access journals and 3.3M open-access articles on the platform. It contains a large collection of Social Sciences and Humanities journals and books, highlighting historical context, current developments, theories, applications, trends and more.

Gale Academic OneFile
Gale Academic OneFile is the premier source of peer-reviewed full-text scholarly content across the academic disciplines such as Biology, Chemistry, Criminal justice, Economics, Environmental science, History, Marketing, Political science, Psychology.

Gale OneFile: Fine Arts
Gale OneFile: Fine Arts places millions of articles at the fingertips of serious students of drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. The database includes over 500 journals, with more than 400 available in full text. Periodical database for serious students of drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.

Gale OneFile: Pop Culture Studies
Gale OneFile: Pop Culture Studies provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that both analyse and contribute to popular culture. The database offers useful information for researchers in social science, history, art or liberal arts courses.

Oxford Academic
Oxford Academic is Oxford University Press’s (OUP) academic research platform, providing access to over 500 journals. OUP hold a commitment to publishing pioneering authors and authoritative content, and with Oxford Academic you can research, discover, and explore the latest in scholarship from around the world. According to the 2022 Journal Citation Report from Clarivate, 47% of OUP journals are in the top quartile of their subject categories and eight are in the #1 spot. You can search across Oxford Academic’s growing body of three million journal articles to meet your research needs.

Arts

JSTOR (Full Collection)
JSTOR's archival journal collections include more than two thousand journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Both multidisciplinary and discipline-specific journal collections are offered, covering more than 50 academic disciplines. At present, JSTOR contains a range of Arts & Sciences collections, a multidisciplinary Life Sciences Collection, discipline-specific collections across several fields, and four primary source collections.

Taylor & Francis Social Sciences & Humanities Library
The Taylor & Francis Social Sciences & Humanities Library covers over 1,000 scholarly journals content spans various areas of Humanities and Social Sciences:
  • Arts & Humanities
  • Behavioral Science Business, Management & Economics
  • Criminology & Law
  • Education
  • Media, Cultural & Communications Studies
  • Politics, International Relations & Area Studies
  • Public Health & Social Care
  • Sociology & Related Disciplines

Recommended Databases (eBooks)
ProQuest Ebook Central
ProQuest Ebook Central provides a breadth and depth of ebooks from scholarly sources, including university presses and other top publishers, covering the subjects of Arts, Business, Education, Health and Medicine, History and Political Science, Law, Literature and Language, Religion and Philosophy, Social Science, and Science and Technology.

 

EBSCOhost eBook Collection
EBSCOhost eBook Collection provides access to an extensive collection of ebook titles in various subjects. It includes a broad range of titles, in areas such as arts & architecture, business & economics, computer science, education, engineering & technology, fiction, history, literature & criticism, political science, religion and social sciences.

 

e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection
The e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection provides access to over 2,000 e-books in humanities and social sciences. Key subject areas include anthropology, art history and theory, Asian studies, cultural studies, ethnic studies, film and television, gender and sexuality studies, Latin American studies, political theory, and science studies. The collection includes term access to all available backlist titles published by Duke University Press as well as perpetual access to at least 100 new e-books each calendar year.

Art and Visual Culture | Cultural Studies

Oxford Academic
Oxford Academic is Oxford University Press’s (OUP) academic research platform, providing access to over 500 journals. OUP hold a commitment to publishing pioneering authors and authoritative content, and with Oxford Academic you can research, discover, and explore the latest in scholarship from around the world. According to the 2022 Journal Citation Report from Clarivate, 47% of OUP journals are in the top quartile of their subject categories and eight are in the #1 spot. You can search across Oxford Academic’s growing body of three million journal articles to meet your research needs.

Arts | Performing Arts | Visual Culture | Virtual Reality

Wiley Digital Textbooks
Wiley Digital Textbooks published by Wiley, currently feature over 20,000 original academic textbooks, covering more than 30 disciplines, including business management, engineering, mathematics, physics, chemistry, life and earth sciences, medical health, social sciences, hospitality management, and humanities.

Loan period: 3 days for each book
Loan quota: 5 titles for each user


VitalSource (e-textbook platform)
VitalSource is the e-textbook platform which provides many different subjects of the e-textbooks. Users could borrow them via this platform. It supports mobile app in IOS and Android, users can read offline accordingly. Furthermore, users can make notes on their borrowed e-textbooks during the loan period.

Loan period: 1 day for each book
Loan quota: 5 titles for each user


Airiti iRead eBooks 華藝電子書
華藝中文電子書平台收錄了不同出版社授權的數萬本華文電子書, 本館已選購部分電子書,每本電子書均可供數人同時全文閱讀,主題包括經典文學、語言學習、商業經營、政治法律、社會心理、文學小說、醫療保健、藝術設計、電腦資訊、工程數學、歷史、哲學等。

設計‧藝術 | 文化研究 | 文學院 | 電腦科技

 

HyRead ebook
HyRead ebook 是一個台灣電子書平台,提供最新出版學術、專業、休閒及工具書各類書籍,包含人文社會、文學小說、語言學習、財經商管、科學科普、電腦資訊、宗教心靈、醫藥養生、藝術設計、休閒生活、親子童書等各領域的電子書。

藝術設計 | 文化風俗人類 | 電腦資訊

Physical Books
  NFT投資聖經 : 全面即懂的終極實戰攻略, 從交易、發行到獲利, 掌握市值破千億的元宇宙經濟商機 = NFTs for dummies
Publication Date : 2022
Call number : 563.146 1210 2022
Location : Chinese Book (2/F)
  觀看權力的方式 : 改變社會的21世紀藝術行動指南 = Seeing power : art and activism in the 21st century
Publication Date : 2021
Call number : 901.5 1212 2021
Location : Chinese Book (5/F)
  博物馆藏品操作手册 : 文物及艺术品包装运输指南
Publication Date : 2021
Call number : 069.6 1208 2017
Location : Chinese Book (2/F)
  超級導覽員趣說博物館. 2
Publication Date : 2020
Call number :
069.8 812 2020
Location : Chinese Book (2/F)
Chinese eBooks
  藝術社會實踐展演誌
Publication Date : 2022
Access via HyRead [ebook]
  圖像思維:找尋中西名畫在藝術史、自然史、時尚史與科技史中的角色與意義
Publication Date : 2022
Access via HyRead [ebook]
  漫遊按讚藝術史
Publication Date : 2022
Access via HyRead [ebook]
  藝術寫作:如何書寫藝術的簡明指南
Publication Date : 2022
Access via 華藝電子書 [ebook]
  藝術顧問寫給職場工作者的「邏輯式藝術鑑賞法」:運用五種思考架構, 看懂藝術, 以理性鍛鍊感性 Publication Date : 2021
Access via HyRead [ebook]
  藝術行銷:藝術/行銷斜槓人的雙刀心法
Publication Date : 2020
Access via HyRead [ebook]
  超級導覽員趣說博物館
Publication Date : 2019
Access via HyRead [ebook]
English eBooks
  Global Art in Local Art Worlds : Changing Hierarchies of Value
Publication Date : 2023
Access via Taylor & Francis eBooks Open Access [ebook]
  Exhibiting Creative Geographies Bringing Research Findings to Life Publication Date : 2023
Access via Ebook Central Perpetual [ebook]
  Creativity in Art, Design and Technology
Publication Date : 2023
Access via DOAB Directory of Open Access Books [ebook]
  3D Information Technologies in Cultural Heritage Preservation and Popularisation
Publication Date : 2023
Access via DOAB Directory of Open Access Books [ebook]
  Horngren's Big Data Analytics for Cultural Heritage
Publication Date : 2023
Access via DOAB Directory of Open Access Books [ebook]
  Heritage Dynamics: Understanding and adapting to change in diverse heritage contexts
Publication Date : 2022
Access via Access content in University College London [ebook]