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“Shakespeare in Lockdown” : a selection of e-resources

Macbeth and Banquo meet the three witches on a heath; scene from Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’. Painting after J.H. Füssli (Fuseli).. Credit: Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

The Library subscribes to a number of databases and websites which include Shakespeare resources, such as filmed performances of productions and other related material.

Goldsmiths E-resources

ArtFilms

Artfilms is a video streaming service offering more than 5000 films from around the world for arts education and arts practitioners. Includes Shakespeare and other performances.

Box of Broadcasts

BoB is Learning on Screen’s on demand service for education, with TV and radio programmes from over 65 Freeview channels.

Digital Theatre Plus

A performing arts resource featuring over 400 British theatre productions onscreen. Includes BBC, Globe and RSC Shakespeare productions, plus Manga Shakespeare graphic novels.

Drama Online

1500 play scripts in the core collection, plus Globe on Screen performances.

Literature Online (LION)

Literature Online includes Shakespeare criticism and Cambridge Companions to Shakespeare.

Routledge Performance Archive

Routledge Performance Archive provides a range of streamed video and audio footage from performance practitioners past and present, paired with relevant critical commentary.

Shakespeare Audio Plays

Arkangel Shakespeare audio versions of 38 plays, part of Literature Online (LION).

Shakespeare Survey Online

A yearbook of Shakespeare studies and criticism going back to 1948.

Theatre in Video

Theatre in Video contains hundreds of documentaries and performances of plays, including 160 Shakespeare related videos.

A Selection of Websites

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (play texts) : http://shakespeare.mit.edu/

Globe Player : https://globeplayer.tv/free-content

National Theatre At Home : https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/nt-at-home

Royal Shakespeare Company : https://www.rsc.org.uk/

Shakespeare’s Globe : https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/

Shakespeare Online : http://www.shakespeare-online.com/

All Goldsmiths databases require institutional login for access. For further information and resources please see the Library’s Audio-Visual and Theatre Subject Guides.

Mark Preston, Subject Librarian for Education, English & Theatre

Collaborating with the Library

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Collaborating with the Library

In the library, we love to collaborate on projects and events. This month on the library blog, we’re looking at different teams and projects in the library and ways that they collaborate with staff, students and members of the local community.

Hosting Events in the Library – Games Night

Games night, happening on November 8^th, from 5pm till 9pm, in the Library, is a great example of how you can collaborate with staff in the library to hold events. This event has been organised by the Subject Librarian for Computing, Eve Jamieson, in conjunction with members of the Computing department. This event will highlight the work of current Goldsmiths students and Alumni, which attendees will be able to play, as well as talks from three members of the Games Industry who will share their expertise.

Here at the library, we love to host events in our event space and work with our colleagues across Goldsmiths, from other universities and libraries and different industries.

Student Library Reps

Every year we ask students to volunteer to be a Student Library Rep who can help shape our collections by purchasing items for their departments.

Working with students on this project help us to address feedback from students about the library not having or insufficient copies of books as well as ensuring the Library collection is meeting the needs of our students and giving them an engagement with the collection.

Students attend training with library staff, document their spending, and help to develop and promote Library services. Participating in the project is also a good opportunity to develop workplace skills such as budget management, negotiation, communication and teamwork.

Job Shadowing opportunities give students the opportunity to learn more about the work of the library by shadowing the various teams involved in its delivery. This year students shadowed our Scanning & Inter-Library Loans team, spent time in our Special Collections & Archives, and learnt about the work of our Subject Team.

Over the past 5 years of running this project we have seen that students who participate feel empowered and valued by the university, have the ability to influence decision-making in regards to the library’s services, collections and resources and help raise awareness of the library and its services to their fellow students. It also provides them with transferable skills in advocacy, negotiation, budgeting and promotion, which they can take with them to future careers, as well a role that they can add to their curriculum vitae and HEAR.

This year, the project runs from December 2019 to April 2020.

But be quick! Applications close November 3^rd.

PALs in the Library

What is a PAL? PAL stands for Peer Assisted Learning and is a student-led initiative run by the PAL Coordinator based in the Academic Skills Centre and a team of 34 trained students (PAL Facilitators).

PAL Facilitators run study-sessions for students where they can discuss anything from learning and their course to student life, in a friendly and informal environment with their peers. PAL participants and facilitators collaborate to run the sessions.

PAL is a space where all participants can feel comfortable to ask questions, review content, discuss knowledge, and receive advice.

PAL is running for 9 Departments in 2019/20.

There are also Ask a PAL sessions – where all UG year 0 & 1 students can drop-in and have a PAL session.

If you have PAL it will be on your timetable.

PAL is advertised through posters on campus, PAL Facilitators popping into your lectures and seminars, emails from Departments and also online

If you are interested in becoming a PAL, recruitment occurs towards the end of Spring term each year, and are often recruited from participants in PAL sessions.

We’re always interested in working with students and departments to develop our services. If you have any ideas that you’d like to explore contact your Subject Librarian and they will be able to talk to you about what might work or put you in touch with the best person.

Quick referencing tips

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Referencing – With a looming deadline – What do I do?!

We’re at the time of year where assessments and dissertations are due. On top, you all have to factor in ‘life’ so that can mean work commitments, a personal life and the upcoming World Cup. Meeting deadline upon deadline means that the little bits (such as storing all references) get overlooked and stressfully recovered in the last minute. Many times I had those AAARGH moments; being hours away from a deadline, having written all of my citations but not even started the referencing. Never fear, it’s all recoverable and with little stress. So much so that I provide the following advice:

Know your referencing scheme and be consistent

You can check places like the course handbook or the library pages at Goldsmiths to know what scheme you need to use. If you are doing units from several departments, double-check what scheme your departments require. Inconsistency sticks out like a sore thumb and please don’t forget to do a CTRL+F search of a bracket ( and double check all citations in the text. Are they all in your references list?

If quoting/paraphrasing, include the pages in your notes

Referencing is enough of a pain in the neck without having to check the pages you got a quote from after the fact. You may think you have cracked it when you come across something in Google Books (when the physical copy is on loan) but make sure you have the right edition. Corroboration is your objective. Nothing else.

It’s okay to be a technophobe.

If you don’t want any technological assistance, you need to make sure you keep paper records. Shoe boxes are great places to archive your materials and the print outs of journal articles and weblinks need to include where they are from. When it comes to a bunch of pages from a book that you stapled together, write down the reference or at worst the ISBN of the book and pages used.

Common referencing errors

Omitting the pages of a journal article, mistaking an editor of a book with the author of a book chapter and not including the edition of a book come to mind. When it comes to weblinks, make sure you include the date you accessed these things (and if in a rush make it the date of the deadline).

The more diverse the source, the more time it takes.

The classic referencing schemes were created for print materials. Managing digital sources is fiddlier as you need to include more information detailing where you got the information. There are also visual sources and performances. If this is what you are coming across, look for an authoritative referencing guide (and read on).

Don’t just Google it and beware false prophets

All universities like to tweak their own version of Harvard, so using the guide from another university means that you inherit their quirks. Also be mindful that a guide might be easily accessible but also be out of date. A personal bug bear is students thinking the solutions they find on the Internet can do everything. They don’t. Generally they work best for established referencing schemes and for conventional academic materials. Goldsmiths (like other university libraries) look after their own first.

You have never had it so easy with Zotero and the magic wand!

As a library we push Zotero (rather, we do lots of training sessions in how to use it). It’s free and easy to use if you are prepared to make the commitment. It’s also super speedy to recover your references when they are books or journal articles. All you need to do is type in the ISBN or DOI where there you see the magic wand icon.

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With all of the references you cited stored in Zotero, you can then produce a references list. It is imperative that you go into your Preferences, select Cite and select the appropriate scheme for your assignment. I’d remove the schemes Zotero thinks you need and make the most of ‘Get additional styles’. For those using Harvard, make sure you select ‘Cite Them Right 10^th edition – Harvard’.

You can also drag and drop PDF’s of journal articles and it will recover all of the information or give you the option to do so:

Can Zotero really let you cite while you write?

Yes, it can do that too (plus lots of other fancy things) but when in a rush, focus more on getting things right rather than learning too many things. If you want to know more, the library regularly do sessions and you can always ask them. They are happy to support.

We also have information on referencing and Zotero on Enhancing Academic Skills Online

Summer Library Workshops

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The Library is offering a series of Summer workshops which any Goldsmiths student can attend.

If you would like to get a head start on finding literature for your dissertation, next assignment or project, if you want to learn to manage your references more effectively, or if you just want a refresher on using Library resources, sign up for a session using the library calendar:

http://libcal.gold.ac.uk

We are running and repeating three sessions:

1. Finding Resources: Social Sciences

This session will focus on finding resources, including peer-reviewed journal articles, for your research and other academic assignments. The session will cover skills applicable to a wide range of disciplines, with a focus on social science resources databases such as PsycInfo, Sociological Abstracts, and JSTOR.

We will cover:

Search techniques
Finding journal articles
Identifying research articles/empirical studies

2. Referencing and Zotero

A refresher workshop on referencing with a focus on Zotero, which is free, online referencing software that is particularly useful for organising references for a longer assignment, project or dissertation.

We will cover:

Learning some basic principles of referencing and why it is important
Learning about different referencing styles
Creating an account with Zotero
Learning how to create an online library of references with Zotero
Learning how to add citations and bibliographies in seconds with Zotero

3. Finding Resources: Arts & Humanities

This session will focus on finding resources for your research and other academic assignments. The session will cover skills applicable to a wide range of students, with a focus on arts and humanities databases such as Art Source, Literature Online and JSTOR.

We will cover:

Search techniques
Finding journal articles
Specialist databases

Open Access Button and Unpaywall

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There are few more frustrating things for researchers than finding a fantastic piece of research and then being shut out of reading it by a paywall. If your university library doesn’t subscribe to that particular journal, you might just give up, assuming you can’t get access.

However, there are a couple of tools out there that might be able to help you get free, legal access to paywalled articles.

Open Access Button is a free, open source tool that can be used online via the website or as a browser extension for Chrome or Firefox. If you’re online, just enter an article URL, DOI, PMID ID, Title or Citation.

If the article is available, you’ll be provided a link to where it can be accessed (often an institutional repository):

Alternatively, if you’ve downloaded the extension for Chrome or Firefox, just visit the article page on the journal’s website and click the OA button in your browser –

For example, the article below is not part of Goldsmiths’ subscriptions, therefore would theoretically need to be purchased to be read:

Clicking on the Open Access Button shows its availability elsewhere:

Unpaywall is a newly launched browser extension developed by Impactstory, a service that provides altmetrics to researchers, helping them measure and share the impacts of research outputs – not just traditional forms of publications such as journal articles, but also datasets and blog posts – where measuring impact has always been trickier.

The browser extension can be downloaded for Chrome and Firefox and allows you to find free, full text versions of articles, where they exist, with one click.

Below is another article that we would not have access to via Goldsmiths:

Look to the right and you’ll see a green circle with an unlocked padlock – click on this to be directed to the free, full text version:

LSE Impact Blog recently ran a piece on Unpaywall and its objectives, but it also provides a brief overview of the tools that are available to unlock research. For example, if you search on PubMed, there’s a LinkOut option, which finds copies of articles in institutional repositories. Recent articles in Nature and The Chronicle of Higher Education also highlight the benefits and successes of these tools. So next time you find an article and you’re being asked for extortionate sums of money for access, try Open Access Button or Unpaywall.

Open Access and REF: from 1 April

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From 1 April 2016, HEFCE will require that any peer-reviewed research article or conference proceeding with an ISSN must – to be eligible for REF2021 – be deposited into an institutional repository (i.e. Goldsmiths Research Online, GRO) and made Open Access.

In order that we send out useful, consistent and ultimately compliant information, Goldsmiths requires from now that all research active staff add their manuscripts (peer-reviewed research article/conference proceeding with ISSN) to GRO within 3 months of the final acceptance date.

What needs to be deposited into GRO?

· Article details: title, authors, journal
· Full text: the author accepted manuscript, the final version after peer review and edits but without publisher formatting/pagination

What assistance is there to help staff?

·      The GRO team (James Bulley, Ozden Sahin and Jeremiah Spillane) are managed by Andrew Gray, Academic Services Librarian (a.gray@gold.ac.uk, 020 7919 7161)
·      They will check publisher permissions, apply relevant embargoes, input additional publication details and metadata, record issues and ‘exceptions’
·      Advice, training and assistance are available in person, via email gro@gold.ac.uk or over the phone (020 7919 7166)
·      Detailed information on the policy will be added to the Research & Enterprise website in the next month. Current information is available at http://research.gold.ac.uk/openaccess.html
· Tracy Banton, Head of Research Office, will be able to answer any REF queries that are not GRO-related ( t.banton@gold.ac.uk, 020 7919 7772)

Books on Writing Essays and Dissertations

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This week (30th November – 4th December), we are running a series of drop-in sessions in the library where students can prepare for writing essays by learning about how to search for information more effectively and how to reference their work. We’re also letting you know which other libraries you can use, how our Special Collections and Archives can help with your research and offering advice on presenting with confidence.

To help you further, there are a range of books in the library that will supplement what you could learn in these sessions. If you’re not sure how to structure an essay or how to avoid plagiarism, then these books can really help. The 808.02 section on the second floor has a number of books on academic and study skills. Here are just a handful which are worth reading.

Academic Writing : A Handbook for International Students by Stephen Bailey (2011), 808.02 BAI

Academic Writing and Grammar for Students by Alex Osmond (2016), 808.02 OSM

Cite Them Right : the Essential Referencing Guide by Richard Pears and Graham Shields (2013), 808.02 PEA (also available online at http://www.citethemrightonline.com/. Log in with your IT username/password)

50 Steps To Improving Your Academic Writing by Chris Sowton (2014), 808.02 SOW

How To Cite, Reference and Avoid Plagiarism at University by Kathleen McMillan and Jonathan Weyers (2011), 808.02 MACM

How To Use Your Reading in Your Essays by Jeanne Godfrey (2013), 808.02 GOD

How To Write Better Essays by Bryan Greetham (2013), 808.02 GRE

How To Write for University by Kathleen McMillan and Jonathan Weyers (2014), 808.02 MACM

Success in Academic Writing by Trevor Day (2013), 808.02 DAY

Writing : Learn To Write Better Academic Essays by Els van Geyte (2013), 808.02 GEY

Brand Republic

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Goldsmiths’ subscription to Brand Republic provides access to the following websites, all essential for students of advertising, branding, marketing, PR and the media:

Each website has a mix of news, opinions, features, job adverts, events and more. Browse between sections or use the search to find something specific that interests you.

To access these websites, you must first register using the ‘sign in’ option. Create an account using your Goldsmiths email address (a personal email address won’t work).

Once you’ve registered, you’ll need to follow the instructions in the verification email Brand Republic sends you.

Changing between websites is easy – scroll all the way to the bottom of the page and choose another website in the Brand Republic network.

Information Skills Sessions

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The Library is running information skills sessions across the academic year, designed to support your studies and help you prepare for assignments and exams.

If you want to learn how to use online software to make referencing simple, how to search for peer-reviewed journal articles, how to access other libraries in London and the UK, how to use our Special Collections and Archives, how to find online newspapers or video, how to use our online reading lists system or even how to confidently present your work, then we’ve something for you and you’re more than welcome to attend.

No need to sign up in advance. If there’s a session you like the sound of, just turn up. Please check the dates, times and rooms of sessions – most are in IT labs in the Rutherford Building (ground and first floor), but some are in Special Collections (ground floor) or the Prokofiev Room (second floor). Each session lasts 45 minutes to an hour.

Referencing and Zotero

Learn about using Zotero (free and open-source online reference management software)

Wednesday 28^th October, 13.00-13.45 (RB008)

Tuesday 1^st December, 13.00-13.45 (RB008)

Thursday 3^rd December, 13.00-13.45 (RB008)

Wednesday 13^th January, 13.00-13.45 (RB102)

Tuesday 9^th February, 13.00-13.45 (RB008)

Thursday 11^th February, 13.00-13.45 (RB103)

Wednesday 9^th March, 13.00-13.45 (RB008)

Wednesday 4^th May, 13.00-13.45 (RB102)

Searching for information

Advanced tips for searching the catalogue

Effective database searching

Searching alternative formats

Monday 30^th November, 13.00-13.45 (RB008)

Wednesday 2^nd December, 13.00-13.45 (RB102)

Friday 4^th December, 13.00-13.45 (RB008)

Monday 8^th February, 13.00-13.45 (RB008)

Wednesday 10^th February, 13.00-13.45 (RB008)

Using other libraries

Goldsmiths students can use many other libraries in London and beyond – discover how to find them and access them

Wednesday 2^nd December, 14.00-14.45 (RB102)

Wednesday 10^th February, 14.00-14.45 (RB008)

Finding & Using Special Collections & Archives

What is a ‘special collection’ or an archive?

Find the collection you need, in London and beyond

Work hands-on with items from our collections

Discover how special collections and archives can contribute to your research

All sessions held in Special Collections and Archives

Wednesday 11^th November, 17.00-18.30

Tuesday 1^st December, 14.30-15.15 (Finding SC&A)

Thursday 3^rd December, 14.30-15.15 (Using SC&A)

Tuesday 19^th January, 17.00-18.30

Tuesday 9^th February, 14.30-15.15 (Finding SC&A)

Thursday 11^th February, 14.30-15.15 (Using SC&A)

Thursday 17^th March, 14.00-15.30

Wednesday 13^th April, 14.00-15.30

Finding newspapers and news online

Where to find primary source news reports and newspapers online

Wednesday 18^th November, 13.00-13.45 (RB008)

Wednesday 16^rd March, 13.00-13.45 (RB008)

Searching for audio-visual resources

Learn more about Goldsmiths’ audio and video collections and more that are publicly available and suitable for research

Wednesday 25^th November, 13.00-13.45 (RB008)

Wednesday 23^th March, 13.00-13.45 (RB008)

Using online reading lists

The Goldsmiths online reading lists system shows the real-time availability of items in the library; as well as linking directly to online resources such as ebooks and journal articles.

This session will show students how to access the reading lists system and online resources both on/off campus, and the functionality of the reading lists system.

Friday 20^th November, 13.00-13.45 (RB008)

Friday 12^th February, 13.00-13.45 (RB008)

Presenting with confidence

Come and learn tips on how to speak to different audiences with confidence. We will examine clips of public figures like Obama, Clinton, and well known academics, and discuss useful strategies that will leave you more prepared to face the world!

Tuesday 3^rd November, 14.00-15.00 (Prokofiev Room)

Tuesday 1^st December, 14.00-15.00 (Prokofiev Room)

Wednesday 20^th January 14.00-15.00 (Prokofiev Room)

Tuesday 9^th February, 14.00-15.00 (Prokofiev Room)

National Poetry Month

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National Poetry Month is a celebration of the importance of poetry in our culture and lives. Founded by the Academy of American Poets, it aims to:

highlight the extraordinary legacy and ongoing achievement of American poets,
encourage the reading of poems,
assist teachers in bringing poetry into their classrooms,
increase the attention paid to poetry by national and local media,
encourage increased publication and distribution of poetry books, and
encourage support for poets and poetry.

You can see which events are taking place or what people on saying on Twitter using #npm15.

Although an American event, if you want to learn more about how poetry is celebrated in the UK, have a look on the Poetry Society’s website.

Furthermore, why not check out the vast range of poetry we have available in the library, including:

American poetry at 811
English poetry at 821
German poetry at 831
French poetry at 841
Italian poetry at 851

We also have databases that have a comprehensive amount of poetry, including LION, where you can search or browse by author or text to find the full text of poems.

You can also see clips of poets reading their own works and the works of others. Goldsmiths’ own Blake Morrison reads his own poetry here. There’s also an audio archive of poets reading their works too.

Why not take a short break from your studies and discover some new poetry?