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Digital content

The collections of the Royal Danish Academy Library cover four subject areas; architecture, design, conservation and the performing arts

We have both physical and digital collections consisting of books and e-books, journals and magazines, online articles, databases, maps, graduation programmes, PhD dissertations, dvd's and much more

Arkitekturbilleder.dk

In Arkitekturbilleder.dk you will find over 1800 buildings by more than 750 different Danish architects and design studios. The buildings are described with pictures from the outside and inside and relevant links to further information

All images can be downloaded and used under the Creative Commons License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Denmark

If you want to use them commercially for publication or printing, contact the library at bibliotek@kglakademi.dk or Martin Toft Burchardi Bendtsen at mtbb@kglakademi.dk

 

Newspapers

The Royal Academy Library gives you access to several news media

Infomedia is a newspaper base with full-text articles from a large number of Danish national, regional and local dailies, local weeklies, trade magazines, periodicals and magazines, news and telegram agencies

Byrummonitor is an independent, award-winning digital news media for anyone interested in Danish urban development. If you would like to have access outside the campus, you must send your academy email to annika@monitormedier.dk, who will assign you a personal login and send an activation link

Altinget is a media platform that covers Danish politics in depth through their 23 niche portals. Remote access also with VPN and personal created user account

Mediestream provides online access to the Kgl. The library's digital collections of newspapers, radio and TV as well as commercials. Full access only via the Royal Library locations. Read more about Mediestream and how to get access

Databases

The Royal Academy Library gives you access to many inspiring and professional resources within the four subject areas; architecture, design, conservation and performing arts

You can find them all in the database list A-Z

How can you access the databases from home?

If you are an employee or student at the Royal Academy, you can get home access to the electronic resources to which the library subscribes. Read more about home access in this guide

Archive

In the archive you can find digitised photos, drawings, books, journald and pamphlets from the library's collection

E-books

The Royal Academy Library gives you access to more than 250,000 e-books from Proquest Ebook Central

On campus, you can read e-books online without logging in. If you wish to download an eBook, you must create an Ebook Central account. With an Ebook Central account, you can read and download ebooks remotely

Other e-book collections

Bloomsbury Visual Arts E-books where you will find a large selection within design and architecture

Bloomsbury Fashion Central contains e-books on fashion, textiles and clothing

The DOAB Directory of Open Access Books collects academic, peer-reviewed open access e-books

 

Need help?

If you need further help - just ask. We have created a guide on how to use e-books

You're missing something?

Although we have many e-books, unfortunately we do not have everything. However, you are always welcome to send an inquiry about a title, and then we will find out if we can acquire it

Journals and articles

The Royal Academy Library has a large collection of physical and electronic journals. You can search here for online journals

You can also see which online and physical journals the library gives access to within the subject areas; architecture, design and conservation

In the DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals you can find scientific open access journals and articles from all over the world and within all subjects