Bloomsbury Digital Resources stands for excellence and originality in scholarship, teaching, learning, and professional practice in the humanities and social sciences. Launched in 2017 by Bloomsbury Publishing, the division is focused on providing essential and cutting-edge scholarly content in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Anchored by the award-winning Bloomsbury Fashion Central and Drama Online, Bloomsbury Digital Resources is in the process of launching multiple new products this year as well as continuing to expand and update our existing holdings.
Whether it be primary documents, critical texts, historical archives or the latest in video and audio resources, we are committed to enhancing the research experience with innovative, engaging, and dynamic digital resources of the highest quality.
The Bloomsbury Digital Resources products cover a range of disciplines in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Visual Arts, and Performing Arts.
Bloomsbury Publishing – Products:
- BLOOMSBURY APPLIED VISUAL ARTS
- BLOOMSBURY ARCHITECTURE LIBRARY
- BLOOMSBURY COLLECTIONS
- BLOOMSBURY CULTURAL HISTORY
- BLOOMSBURY DESIGN LIBRARY
- BLOOMSBURY EDUCATION AND CHILDHOOD STUDIES
- BLOOMSBURY FASHION CENTRAL
- BLOOMSBURY FOOD LIBRARY
- BLOOMSBURY HISTORY: THEORY & METHOD
- BLOOMSBURY INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SURREALISM
- BLOOMSBURY MEDIEVAL STUDIES
- BLOOMSBURY PHILOSOPHY LIBRARY
- CHURCHILL ARCHIVE
- FAIRCHILD BOOKS INTERIOR DESIGN LIBRARY
- SCREEN STUDIES
- DRAMA ONLINE – Plataforma BBC DRAMA FILMS
- CORE COLLECTION
- THE HOLLOW CROWN
- L.A. THEATRE WORKS
- NICK HERN BOOKS
- PLAYWRIGHTS CANADA PRESS
- CRITICAL STUDIES AND PERFORMANCE PRACTICE
- SHAKESPEARE’S GLOBE ON SCREEN (2008-2015)
- SHAKESPEARE’S GLOBE ON SCREEN 2 (2016-2018)
- RSC LIVE
- STAGE ON SCREEN
- SHAKESPEARE IN THE PRESENT
- SHAKESPEARE’S HEROES AND VILLAINS
- THEOLOGY & RELIGION ONLINE
- HUMAN KINETICS LIBRARY
All of Bloomsbury’s Digital Resources offer these benefits for institutions:
- No limit on the number of simultaneous users
- Access by IP address, proxy server, Shibboleth, WAYFless URL and other standard authentication methods
- Convenient online account management service
- Support for outbound OpenURL linking from citations
- Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)
- COUNTER 5 usage statistics
- MARC records at volume level for all book titles
- Institutional logo displayed on interface
- Conforms to accessibility standards for most Level A (Priority 1) and AA (Priority 2) success criteria of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0) developed by the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C)
- Promotional materials available
