Journals on Film, TV and Cultural Studies - Lucky RCS Students!

Did you know?  Our library subscription to Edinburgh University Press journals gives our staff and students access to no less then ten different journals on film, television and cultural studies.

On site, colleagues will find themselves already logged in to the website here.  Off-campus, you'll need to log in by Shibboleth.  (That means picking the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland from a list of institutions, and then using your normal login.)

Journal of British Film and Television, anyone?

Mental Health Awareness Week - free access to quality journal articles until 31 July 2014

Mental Health - Raising Awareness

Here at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, our e-journals extend far beyond just music, drama, dance, film and TV, but today's offer by publisher Routledge nonetheless provides a generous offer of quality articles that we might not otherwise be able to access.

So, here's the deal (quoting from the emailed circular that we received today):-

"To mark Mental Health Awareness Week, Routledge have compiled a free article collection on Anxiety."For one week each May, the Mental Health Foundation raises awareness of a specific theme for Mental Health Awareness Week. This year's theme is Anxiety, one of the leading causes of mental ill-health around the world.
Featuring over seventy leading articles from our Behavioral Science portfolio, this collection is hosted in one handy place and is completely free to access until July 31st 2014.
Click here to further your understanding of Anxiety."

 
Our RCS Counsellor shares some useful weblinks about mental health:-
 
The Mental Health Foundation is focusing on the theme of anxiety this week, as one of the leading causes of mental ill-health. Anxiety is defined as ‘an on-going sense of worry without a specific cause’.  Around 1 in 4 people in the UK experience a mental health problem such as anxiety each year and many of them will not seek help to get a diagnosis.

To help address this the Mental Health Foundation has produced a booklet which examines what anxiety is, the different types of anxiety, how it affects us and how to manage it if we feel that it is going beyond a healthy level and causing us distress.

 

• Anxiety Booklet

Other sources of help

 

• MIND website: http://www.mind.org.uk/ , which contains information and support both for helping yourself and helping someone else;
• Anxiety UK website: http://www.anxietyuk.org.uk/ also has information about dealing with anxiety and stress.

eMagazines for light reading

 eMagazines!

Whilst the Whittaker Library has a whole load of electronic journals of a scholarly nature, you may be interested to know that our offering is complemented by eMagazines available through Glasgow City Libraries. If you live in Glasgow, find out more about eMagazines in Glasgow Libraries:-

http://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/libraries/ebooks/Pages/eMagazines.aspx

NB Library, cultural and sporting facilities in Glasgow are run by Glasgow Life.