BA Esports
Meet your Librarian – Lindsey Crush
About Lindsey
Lindsey is the Subject Librarian responsible for courses in the programmes of Film & Performing Arts, Computer Arts & Technology and Fine Art & Photography. She holds a teaching qualification alongside her MSc in Library Studies and a BA in Fine Art (when it was still called Norwich School of Art & Design!)
How can I help you?
You can book one to one tutorials with me to help you with your research or referencing, please contact me via email or you can drop into the library office (DS103) to have a chat!
I work Monday to Friday
As a team, we also provide research and referencing drop-in sessions to assist you in the run-up to written work hand-ins, keep an eye on Instagram (@norwichuni_library) for times and dates.
e-book Collections
Try these virtual shelves which link you to ready-made collections of e-books on specific subjects.
Useful collections for BA Esports
Esports (O’Reilly)
Online Resources
As well as printed materials, the Library also has a wide selection of online resources to help you with your research.
Useful resources for BA Esports
ACM Digital Library
Search here for access to all Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) publications, including journals, conference proceedings, and papers of special interest groups. The search interface is easy to use and will bring back results across all the ACM content we have access to.
Key titles available from ACM include: ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems; Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques; Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics.
Box of Broadcasts
BoB is an up to date television streaming service available to all students and staff. BoB allows you to view recently aired programmes from over 65 channels and there is a searchable archive of 3.3 million broadcasts. You can also record programmes aired in the last 30 days which will be stored on the service permanently, meaning you can watch them again and again. Best of all, you do not need a TV license to use this service.
This service is not available outside the UK. You will need to register with BoB when you first try and access it.
Video resources to support accessing and using BoB are available on the VLE.
Further resources on how to use BoB Â (opens in a new window)
eBook Central
Search our huge database of titles covering a wide variety of topics. All titles are available so you can start reading straight away. A great source for research and learning more about historical and cultural contexts. You can read e-books online, or you can download them to Adobe Digital Editions (PC/Mac) or Bluefire (iOS/Android).
Information on how to download from eBook Central (opens in a new window)
O’Reilly
Access to over 21,000 technical e-books and videos to assist with IT and programming needs. Other areas include art and design with publishers like Laurence King included and books about well being too. Aimed specifically at Higher Education users with an interface that allows for personalising and comes with an app which is free to download.
Short videos on how to access and use O’Reilly are available on the VLE.
Further guides on using O’Reilly are available on their webpages (opens in a new window).
You can download an O’Reilly app to enable you to save material. Information on how to download the app is available (opens in a new window).
Statista
Statista offers over 1.5 million statistics from over 18,000 sources, available immediately in easy to use graphs you can use in your own reports and presentations. Statista includes market data, industry reports, forecasts, opinion polls and infographics.
A video guide to using Statista is available on the VLE.
Further usage guides are available on Statista’s site (opens in a new window).
Publications
Publications, also known as magazines, journals or periodicals, are regularly published with up to date articles, images, and editorials. These can be available in print and online.
Useful publications for BA Esports
Resource Type
JournalGAME
Games as Art, Media, Entertainment (GAME) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal dedicated to games and play.
Resource Type
JournalGame Studies
Game Studies is a non-profit, open-access, cross-disciplinary journal dedicated to games research,
Resource Type
JournalGames and culture: a journal of interactive media
Quarterly peer reviewed international journal that publishes innovative theoretical and empirical research about games and culture within interactive media. The journal serves as a premiere outlet for ground-breaking work in the field of game studies.
Resource Type
JournalGamevironments
The journal seeks to explore both established approaches and new frontiers of researching video gaming in relation to value formations in culture and society.
Resource Type
JournalJournal of Games Criticism
The Journal of Games Criticism is a non-profit, peer-reviewed game studies journal that strives to connect the conversations between traditional academics and popular game critics.