Migrating your RefWorks data to EndNote

January 10, 2012 – 3:33 pm

The bibliographic reference management service RefWorks will only be supported and accessible to current users until October 2012. Between now and that point, all current users will need to migrate across to EndNote, or choose another service.

This RefWorks to EndNote Guide may be useful to you in migrating your RefWorks account data across to EndNote.

It is recommended that you sign up for a class in EndNote as advertised on the Events channel of MyEd. Introductory classes on Endnote will be listed as “Managing Bibliographies with EndNote X4″ and will be available throughout Semester 2.

For those already familiar with EndNote there are also classes on “Importing references into an EndNote X4 Library”.

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World Architecture News

January 26, 2012 – 11:02 am

World Architecture News is an online global architecture information resource.

The site includes news on awards, events, job opportunities and new
projects world wide.
Sign up for their regular newsletter delivered direct to your e-mailbox.

Nestle Museum and Factory, Sao Paulo, by Metro Arquitetos

Nestle Museum and Factory, Sao Paulo, by Metro Arquitetos

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New book arts newsletter out now

January 24, 2012 – 3:26 pm

The February 2012 Book Arts Newsletter, No. 71, from the University of the West of England, is now ready for download at: http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm

In the latest issue:

EXHIBITIONS, including:
Correspondence, The 9th International Book Art Festival, Poland
Left to Chance: The Accidental Book Art. Curated by Hanna Regev, The San Francisco Center for the Book, USA
The 10th Anniversary Celebrations for bookartbookshop, London
Palindrome panoramique: David Faithfull. Engramme, Quebec, Canada
The Artist’s Imprint. Emma Hill Fine Art - Eagle Gallery, London
Two new exhibitions at the CDLA, France
Sucking on Words; a celebration of 10 years of information as material. Saturday 18 February, Whitechapel Gallery, London
International al-Mutanabbi Street Events on 5th March 2012
Rare Beauty: Contemporary Visions in Book Arts. Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, Hartford, CT, USA
The Sunderland Book Project. Curated by Theresa Easton. University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
FLUVIATILE by Lindsey Adams and Michelene Wandor. Performance, Saturday 4th February at Arnolfini, Bristol, UK

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COURSES, LECTURES, FAIRS, CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS, including:
The 15th International Contemporary Artist’s Book Fair, Leeds
Book as Architecture: Pop-Up Paper Structures with Paul Johnson. Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, USA
Creative Artists Books, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Australia
Handmade Letterpress Notebooks with Lara Durback at The San Francisco Center for the Book
Glasgow International Artists’ Bookfair 2012
Making Books: Binding, Pages, Covers and Cuts, UWE Bristol with Angie Butler
Dancing with the Brush, Chen Li + A Bound Flower, Terhi Hursti, Scuola Internazionale Di Grafica, Venice

OPPORTUNITIES AND CALLS FOR ENTRIES including:
Call for Papers: Book live! International symposium and related live events at London South Bank University, deadline 13th February
Stick, Staple & Stitch Artist’s Book Fair at Essex Book Festival
Last Call for Doverodde Book Arts Festival IV & Symposium 2012
Call for Artists - Shin Jidai: Contemporary Japanese Book and Paper Arts at Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, USA
Artists’ BookMarket, Edinburgh
The Library of Lost Books - Call for Artists/Printmakers
Call for Artists - The Poetic Pen: Celebrating Calligraphy and Poetry, 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, Oregon
CALL FOR ARTISTS - Locating Boccaccio in 2013. John Rylands Library, Manchester, UK

NEW ARTISTS PUBLICATIONS, including:
A new bookwork by Les Bicknell
The Bonefolder
What You Will by Kyle Schlesinger, NewLights Press
Remembrance by Julie Shaw Lutts
STREETOPIA, San Francisco, published by Booklyn
New books from The Caseroom Press
Affinity by Simon Cutts
The Golden Age Of Alchemy by Dmitry Sayenko
The Daily Twit No 21
BOOK of LOVE. A collaborative artist’s book by Bridgette Guerzon Mills and Hanne Matthiesen
LOST and FOUND by Maria G Pisano
Tea Stories by Rebecca Swindell

REPORTS AND REVIEWS including:
3rd Sheffield International Artist’s Book Prize
LOVE: artists’ books in Vilnius. A report by Hanne Matthiesen, Denmark

STOP PRESS!
International Drawing Project, PR1 Gallery, Preston, UK. Curated by Craig Atkinson
Shelve – George Cullen at LXV Books, London, UK
CALL FOR PROPOSALS - filling in the blanks organised at X Marks the Bokship by LemonMelon
Exhibitions at Onomatopee, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Personal Mapping on the Summer Isles with Rachel Hazell
Centre For Fine Print Research UWE Bristol, 2012 Summer Institute

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New databases at ECA Library!

January 11, 2012 – 12:02 pm

From 16th January 2012 the following new databases will be available for all students and staff. They will be listed in the A-Z of databases on the University Library website and in the University Library subject guides for Art & Design.

WGSN: The leading online fashion trend-analysis and research service providing creative and business intelligence for the apparel, style, design and retail industries.

Vogue Archive: Contains the entire run of Vogue magazine (US edition) from 1892 to the present day, reproduced in high-resolution colour page images. More than 400,000 pages are included. Vogue is a unique record of international popular culture that extends beyond fashion. The Vogue Archive is an essential primary source for the study of fashion, gender and modern social history.

eLexicons: eLexicons provide access to unique learning resources for the visual arts. With biographies, work examples, bibliographies and glossaries, the eLexicons provide the complete foundation for study in higher education, covering graphic design, typography, illustration, lettering, art and craft. Support material includes lecture guides, indexes and reading lists.

Bridgeman Education: Gives access to over 380,000 images from museums, galleries, private collections and contemporary artists all copyright cleared for educational use. Bridgeman Education gives you access to the visual culture of every civilization and every period from Prehistory to the present day across continents and civilisations.

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Access to maps online at the National Library of Scotland website

December 6, 2011 – 11:34 am

NLS has announced the availability of 7,000 new detailed maps covering all of Scotland.

The Ordnance Survey six-inch to the mile series (1892-1960) illustrates a very wide range of natural and man-made features, and are excellent resources for local and family history.

You can zoom into the detail of the OS six-inch maps using an interactive index map, and also search them by counties, parishes and a gazetteer of place names.

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EndNote and RefWorks

November 16, 2011 – 1:18 pm

Following the Merger with the University, it is not possible for new RefWorks accounts to be created. Existing users of RefWorks will be supported by the University until October 2012, after which point they will have to migrate their data across to another platform such as Endnote.

EndNote is the best option for new users looking for reference management software, and Endnote is installed on all the ECA lab computers.

There is information about Endnote on the IS website here. Students may be interested in the EndnoteWeb service, details here. There are details of courses in using Endnote here, and self-teach documents here.

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World Architecture News launches Eco News Service

November 11, 2011 – 5:06 pm

World Architecture News is delighted to announce a major new expansion to its award-winning news service. ECO NEWS will focus on new and innovative designs that push the sustainability agenda. This ambitious project will be achieved by fully integrating with the WAN AWARDS programme, hence encompassing every aspect of a project from water-saving drains, through to energy-saving glass, construction materials to transport and urban design to master planning and eco cities.

The lifeblood of the new initiative will be a stream of ECO NEWS sourced from around the world, flowing into a dedicated area of the site, listing and featuring projects and products that will inspire architects and influence future designs.

For more information see http://www.wantoday.com/ecowan/

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E-mix newsletter

November 9, 2011 – 3:25 pm

Those of you who enjoyed our recent WGSN trend analysis trial database may be interested in e-mix, an online trend website with a newsletter that you can subscribe to. For more information see

http://www.globalcolor.co.uk/newsletter.php

E-mix describes itself as a monthly update of essential news, views and colour palettes, from Global Color Research: Mix Publications: “We aim to show you how to work effectively with colours, choosing the right combinations to keep you ahead of the crowd and on track for making the right decisions.”

You can view the newsletter online or have it sent to your e-mail inbox.

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uk.untitled: blog for new artists and writers is launched

October 20, 2011 – 12:24 pm

uk.untitled is a new initiative set up by art historians Laura Di Maio (current PhD candidate University of Edinburgh) and Ruth Burgon (MSc University of Edinburgh). Their aim is to create a platform that can provide a first rung for young artists and art historians (students or recent graduates) in the United Kingdom, an initial place for them to get their work seen and their voices heard in the British art community.

uk.untitled hope that by beginning this project at the University of Edinburgh, in the year of its merger with the Edinburgh College of Art, they will promote the value of fruitful collaboration between artists and art historians, which is central to their thinking.

They will be beginning this project as a blog (which will include frequent reviews of independent shows, interviews with young artists, online exhibitions, platforms for debate, artistic event promotions, and monthly showcases of selected talent), but hope that it will develop in the future to allow them collectively to curate exhibitions of their contributors’ work, hold events, run debates and workshops and so on.

uk.untitled is project based around people and will not work without your input!
uk.untitled are looking for artists and writers who are interested in getting involved now. Email them with some info about yourself and a sample of your work: writers please submit a short (500 word) sample of your writing on art; artists please submit 5 photos of your work.

Additionally, if you are running an event or exhibition that you think might interest uk.untitled, please let them know and they will post a blog about it.

There will be a selection process as the organisers will be looking for a high standard in both the artists and writers they support.

EMAIL: uk.untitled@gmail.com

BLOG: www.uk-untitled.blogspot.com

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Bookmarks IX: Infiltrating the library system

September 29, 2011 – 11:52 am

Launching this month, ECA Library is happy to be supporting Bookmarks IX: Infiltrating the library system.

Come to the library and help yourself to a free bookmark, made by an artists’ book maker. The aim of the project is to raise awareness of artists’ books. Each of the bookmarks available has been generously made and given to the project for free distribution. The bookmarks have been made from a variety of media: old books, maps, stickers, recycled pulp, paper, photography, screenprint, and digital prints.

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The project is run by artists’ book maker Sarah Bodman, at the Centre for Fine Print Research, at the University of the West of England. For more information see the Bookmarks project website.

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