Cultural Materials Conservation

This subject guide highlights some key discipline resources to get you started with study and research. 

• Refer to the New Students Library Guide for everything you need to know about Library services and resources.
• Build your researching, reading and writing skills with the Research Essentials Library Guide.
• Streamline your access to online resources with the Library's quick access tools.

Art and material culture

Science

Use databases to search across many academic resources (including peer-reviewed journals) at the same time. 

Refer to the A-Z Ejournals and Databases page for a comprehensive list of available resources. 

Core Arts and Humanities databases:

The selection of multidisciplinary databases below will retrieve results from different subject areas. 

Cultural Materials Conservation-specific databases

For more focused results try searching in one of these subject-specific databases.

You can access print and eBooks via the Library Catalogue. To find books on a particular subject, try a keyword search:

To improve your searching skills, see the Research Essentials Library Guide. Note that you can search the catalogue in non-Latin scripts (including Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese and Korean). 

For information on access and loans, including material from other libraries, see the borrowing from the library page. The eBook Guide provides information on eBook access.

Visit the Finding Theses guide

You can find relevant information and resources for your research on the websites of professional organisations and bodies, institutes, NGOs, government departments, etc.

This guide gives a few suggestions to get you started and to give you an idea what to look for. It is by no means comprehensive. If you are a coursework student, check your LMS to see if your lecturer has provided website recommendations.

Tip: if you want to limit your Google search results to organisational, governmental, or educational websites, use Google's advanced search option to limit the site or domains to .org, .gov, .edu. 

Some website suggestions to get you started:

Referencing advice for Cultural Materials Conservation students

The Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation uses the AICCM Instructions for Authors and the AICCM Reference Manual, based on the Harvard (Author/Date) Style. You can access the manual from the Conservation Resources or Subject Guidelines on your LMS.

Learn how reference management software can help you with referencing

Visit the Getting Started with Reference Management guide

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