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Games Design, Game Programming and Game Art: Journals

Resources for students on Games programmes (art, design and programming)

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Recommended journals and magazines

Recommended journals

Examples of a small number of titles available. Use the Browzine tool below to search for titles or browse journals available across a subject.  

Recommended journals and magazines

International Journal of Computer Games Technology
Games: Research and Practice front cover
Games and culture journal front cover
IEEE Open Journal on Immersive Displays
entertainment computing journal front cover
The Computer Games Journal front cover
IEEE Transactions on Games front cover
acm transactions computer graphics front cover
Edge games magazine front cover
Character design quarterly front cover

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Library Discovery

What are journals?

What are journals?

Journals are academic magazines. Most of our journals are available online. A small number of titles, mainly more professionally focused magazines, are available in print.

Journals are

  • published daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly - therefore the material is up to date
  • generally the first place that scholarly research is published
  • often 'peer reviewed', this means that articles have been critically reviewed by experts prior to being published.

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What about conference proceedings?

What about conference proceedings?

This is a collection of research papers delivered at a conference or symposium. Proceedings are available both from UoG search tools such as Library Discovery, SCOPUS, as well from services like GoogleScholar and SemanticScholar.  

Searching for journal articles

  • ConnectedPapers
    Creates a visual map of published research, shows links between papers containing references. 5 free maps per month.
  • Elicit
    A free AI literature search tool using similar natural language searching  Displays and summarises relevant papers. See FAQ.
  • GoogleScholar
    Searches scholarly materials. Use Settings to select the Library Links to access content to which the UoG Library subscribes.
  • SemanticScholar
    Searches and retrieves scholarly publications based on the importance and relevance of cited papers using machine learning techniques.

Using the Inter-Library Loan service

Article not in library?

Use the Inter-Library Loan (ILL) service to obtain journal articles not held by the university. Primarily for final year undergrad students, postgrads, researchers or academics. Staff and students have an initial allocation of free requests. More information is available in the Guide to Inter-Library Loans. 

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