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Bloomsbury Publishing — Investor Presentation (October 2025)
36 slides from Bloomsbury Publishing's investor presentation, October 2025
Slide 1: Bloomsbury
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Slide 2: Agenda: homepage, content, search and more
• Your homepage • Content – what’s included? • How to search • Advanced search • Browsing the site • Timeline of popular music • World map • Personal accounts and saving c ontent • Citations • Social sharing • Librarian’s area
Slide 3: Your Homepage
Your Homepage BrOOMS BURY R MUSIC & SOUND
Slide 4: Your Homepage
Your Homepage Welcome to the Bloomsbury Music and Sound 1 2 homepage! From here you can enter into the 3 content in a number of different ways: 1. The menu along the top, which offers different ways of browsing the content 2. The search bar, that appears at the top of 4 every page 3. The image carou
Slide 5: Content – what's included?
Content - what’s included? BrOOMS BURY R MUSIC & SOUND
Slide 6: Content – what's included?
Content – what’s included? Bloomsbury Music & Sound is a growing digital hub that provides access to exclusive reference content, cutting edge scholarship, and a variety of learning resources across a range of subject areas in music and sound studies. The hub currently offers two collections: Blooms
Slide 7: Bloomsbury Popular Music
Bloomsbury Popular Bloomsbury Popular Music provides unrivalled scholarly coverage of Music modern popular music worldwide, covering the mid-20th century to the present day, through the Bloomsbury Enyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, an expanding range of scholarly books and the 33 1/3 and Glo
Slide 8: Bloomsbury Popular Music
Bloomsbury Popular Music 33 1/3 and Global 33 1/3 series: Widely acclaimed by fans, musicians, and scholars alike, 33 1/3 is a series of short books about popular music, focusing on individual albums by artists ranging from James Brown to Neutral Milk Hotel. Each album covered in the series occupies
Slide 9: Sound Studies
Sound Studies The Sound Studies collection is the first digital resource to provide wide- ranging, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary scholarly content in the study of sound. It contains 112 titles from across Bloomsbury and Taylor & Francis, including comprehensive reference works, as well as wo
Slide 10: How to search
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Slide 11: How to search
How to search Search the full text and metadata across the entire collection, including book chapters, encyclopedia entries and artist 1 2 pages relating to Music & Sound 1. To search the content of Bloomsbury Music & Sound, enter your search term in the box 2. Once you have chosen your term, click
Slide 12: How to search
How to search You will be taken to the search results page. This will display all the content that includes your search term 3. Each book has been split 3 down to chapter level to enable users to find content that is most useful for them
Slide 13: How to search
How to search Scrolling down the page reveals the other search results and the taxonomy categories that can 4 be used as filters to refine your results: • Artists • Music Genres • Period • Place 5 • Topic 4. Click on one of the filters to narrow down the results that are displayed. This will be refl
Slide 14: How to search
How to search Clicking on a result will take you to the content page. This is a book chapter from Enchanting David Bowie: 8 Space/Time/Body/Memory 9 6. On this page you can read the full HTML for the chapter 7 7. You can also explore the full chapter table of contents, and jump directly to a section
Slide 15: How to search
How to search Scroll down the page to read the chapter 11. You can also see which taxonomy 11 terms the chapter has been tagged with. All of these are hyperlinked and will take you to a page with all of the content on the site that has been 7 tagged with the term 12. The taxonomy tags also inform th
Slide 16: Advanced Search
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Slide 17: Advanced Search
Advanced Search If you have a more complex search query, you can use the advanced search tool 1. Click on Advanced Search, 1 which appears to the right of the normal search bar
Slide 18: Advanced Search
Advanced Search 2. Enter multiple search terms to be used at once using the Add Field button 3. Choose where you want to search for this term; Anywhere, Title, Author, Summary, 2 3 Category or Identifier 4. You can also refine the results by year of publication 4 5 5. Lastly, you can specify the con
Slide 19: Browsing the site
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Slide 20: Browsing the site
Browsing the site 1. The Explore dropdown menu lets you discover the content through various topic areas, such as Music Genres, Artists, Topics and 1 Place Explore by Music Genre is particularly useful for navigating to a specific genre or regional sub- genre, which are listed in alphabetical order.
Slide 21: Browsing the site
Browsing the site 2 2. Selecting one of the options under the Explore tab will take you to a page showing all of the facets within the category 3. The numbers in the 4 brackets indicate the amount 3 of content that has been tagged with this term 4. Clicking on the + or – symbol to the right of the h
Slide 22: Browsing the site
Browsing the site Browse Contents appears in the top navigation, above 6 the search bar. Use this to 7 explore the different 8 9 content within Bloomsbury 10 Music & Sound: 11 6. Encyclopedia volumes 12 7. Titles from the 33 1/3 series 8. Major works in popular music and sound studies 9. Profiles fo
Slide 23: Browsing the site
Browsing the site 13. The Collections menu allows you to 13 search Bloomsbury Music & Sound by the individual collections. Clicking on the options this way will take you to the individual landing pages of each of the collections
Slide 24: Browsing the site
Browsing the site 14. The About tab provides more detail 1 about Bloomsbury Music 4 15 & Sound, including a link to the title list, as well as links to the current Featured Content, some information on how to use the site, and details on the Editorial Advisory Boards for both Bloomsbury Popular 15.
Slide 25: Timeline of Popular Music
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Slide 26: Timeline of Popular Music
Timeline of Popular Music To access this feature, choose Timeline from the Browse Contents dropdown The timeline covers the 1 history of popular music, from 1900 to the present day 1. Images along the top offer a visual insight 2 into the period, and link either to book chapters or screenplays withi
Slide 27: World Map
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Slide 28: World Map
World Map To access this feature, choose World Map from the Browse Contents dropdown The World Map makes it simple to explore content from Bloomsbury Music and Sound by region Hovering over a continent displays how many pieces of content have been tagged with countries from the area. You can choose
Slide 29: Personal accounts and saving content
Personal accounts and saving content
Slide 30: Personal accounts and saving content
Personal accounts and saving content When logged into your institutional account, you can create a personal account by 3 clicking the ‘sign in’ button at the top right of the screen, and selecting the ‘sign up now’ option. With this personal account, you can save 1. You cancontent and type save each
Slide 31: Citations
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Slide 32: Citations
Citations APA, MLA and Chicago citations are available for all content on Bloomsbury Music & Sound 1 1. To cite, use the Citation button that’s towards the top right of the 2 content 2. You can select which citation style to use and then copy this to your clipboard or export it as a RIS file
Slide 33: Social Sharing
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Slide 34: Social Sharing
Social Sharing You can share what you see 1 Bloomsbury Music & Sound by 2 using the ‘Share’ button, at the top right of your content 1. You can share content on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest by simply clicking on the icon of the site on which you’d like to share 2. You can
Slide 35: Librarian's Area
Librarian’s Area
Slide 36: Librarian's Area
Librarian’s Area This area includes information on: • How to subscribe to Bloomsbury Music & Sound, the contact details for our sales teams worldwide, and information on how to use the administration portal • Benefits for subscribing institutions and their users • MARC & KBART Records, and how to do
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