Art & Research is an online journal published by Studio 55: Centre for Research in Fine Art Practice at Glasgow School of Art. The two issues so far have included interviews, essays, and audio, visual or text-based artworks. It also publishes interdisciplinary articles which relate fine art practice to philosophy, politics, law, medicine, science and the humanities.

Issue 1 incuded interviews with Simon Starling and Ross Sinclair, and transcripts of lectures by David Batchelor and Barry Schwabsky, while issue 2 includes an essay on appropriation in contemporary art by Jan Verwoert and work by Chad McCail and Dan Graham.

The library now subscribes to The Times Digital Archive, the full text of The Times (London) newspaper from 1785-1985. The database features full facsimile images of either specific articles or  complete pages from the paper. This is an invaluable resource for the research of 19th and 20th century culture, including everything from small ads and shipping news to reviews of exhibitions and the building of Trafalgar Square.

Velox is a new quarterly online, peer reviewed magazine which aims to deliver critical approaches to contemporary films and provide immediate open access to its content. The first edition appeared in October 2007. Issue one can be downloaded as a pdf file and features articles on ‘Kierkegaard avec Tarantino’, Guillermo Del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth, ‘Cato and Dr. No vs. Anglo Heroes: Reaffirming American Monologia through Film’, and ‘Profit and Prophecy: the Popular Reception of (Un)truth in the Science Fiction of H.G. Wells’. If you register, you will receive the contents page of each issue by e-mail.

The Library now has access to the British Library’s digital collection of 19th Century Newspapers.

The collection contains full runs of 48 newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent 19th century Britain. It includes national and regional newspapers, as well as those from both established country or university towns and the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Special attention was paid to include newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. The penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also present in the collection.

Newspaper images can be magnified for easier reading, printed or emailed.