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Finding Books/Journals Not Held at Ryerson
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Ryerson Library Special Collections
Table of Contents Services
Obtaining Journal Articles Not Held at Ryerson
Borrowing in Person from Other Libraries
Managing Your Bibliographies

Photographic Preservation and Collections Management Research Guide

See also the following Web guides:

Photography Research Guide

PP8102 Research Methods: Library Research Guide

Services for Graduate Students

On-line Reference Works

Grove Dictionary of Art Online

Finding Books/Journals Not Held at Ryerson

RACER (search simultaneously and in real-time the catalogues of all Ontario universities and selected world library catalogues, and request interlibrary loans)

Ulrich's Periodical Directory (get basic information about journals, including whether they are refereed)

Other Library Catalogues

Finding Theses

Proquest Dissertations and Theses (full text from 1997)

Theses Canada Portal (full text 1998-2002)

Finding Journal Articles

The following are some of the databases which could be useful for this program:

Art Full Text

ARTstor (A digital collection of over 300,000 images and their associated catalogue data. This resource covers the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts and design.)

CISTI Source see NRC-CISTI Discover

Design and Applied Arts Index (No full text)

Scholars Portal (Full text)

Web of Science (Online version of the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index)

Ryerson Library Special Collections

The Ryerson Library houses several important collections in the fields of photography and cinematography. These collections include: The Kodak Canada Heritage Collection, The Nicholas M. and Marilyn A. Graver Collection, The Michael Mitchell Photographic Collection, The Dr. Joe MacInnis Audiovisual Collection.

Table of Contents Services

Receive table of contents and keyword search results automatically by email

Obtaining Journal Articles Not Held at Ryerson

RACER (Interlibrary Loan system)

CISTI Source see NRC-CISTI Discover

Borrowing in Person from Other Libraries

Ryerson Graduate students have borrowing privileges at University of Toronto and many other libraries

Managing Your Bibliographies

RefWorks (Web-based bibliographic and database manager)

Contact Susan Patrick spatrick@ryerson.ca if you have questions about the library or your research in Photographic Preservation and Collections Management.