MA Course Work collections

Digital collection - new collection of post-graduate student work online from year 2010/2011

From 2011, the library will be collecting digital copies of MA students' work, including exemplary essays, dissertations, case studies and bibliographies and other final course work by graduating students.

Departments will select works from post-graduate programmes. Normally 5-10 works per year, per course will be selected.

Items selected may be:

• works which achieve a distinction or over a specified mark and/or
• works which are good examples of a particular type of dissertation e.g. a case study or a bibliography

This collection will be available online to Goldsmiths users only, or in the library at Goldsmiths from the student work repository. The service will be available 24/7 and away from campus, with a login.

These works are unique and unpublished and may not be copied, except for the bibliographies. They are held by the library with permission of the authors under these conditions. MA course work will be held by the library for 3, or 10 years if requested by the course convenor at the time of deposit, under the College Records Management policy.

Please contact your Subject Librarian to find out more.

Print copies in the library (until year 2009/10)

The library holds a selection of student work including MA dissertations, essays, case studies, bibliographies and other final course work by graduating students. These are intended for the use of current students as good examples of different types of work.

Print collections are on the library catalogue.

• To search within the MA course work collection, search for your subject in the usual way, then use the 'Filter' button and select 'MA course work'.
  
• To search for work from your department, from the usual search page, type in the name of your department or the broad subject you are interested in, e.g. social work, or media, then click the 'Other categories' button and pick MA course work from the drop-down list of categories.
  
• To browse all MA student work, you can search by collection code. Type MACW in the 'search' box, then click on the down arrow in the 'field to search' box and select 'Collection code'. When you have a list of results, you can click on the 'refine' button and type keywords for your subject in the search box.
• You can see more details about the item by viewing the 'FULL' record. To do this, click on the number to the left of the author's name in the results list.
  

When you have found the items you would like to see, please write down the author and title. Student course work items are available to read on request in the Special Collections and post-graduate reading room, Monday - Friday 9.15 - 17.00 and from the library Enquiry desk or Helpdesk 17.00 - 19.00 weekdays, 11.30 - 4.30 weekends.

Student work is held with permission under the terms of the College Records Management policy for 3 or 10 years if requested by the course convenor at the time of deposit. Print copies of work completed up to academic year 2009/10 only are held. More recent work will be collected digitally.