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Databases for Creative and Cultural Industries

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Databases: Journal articles and references to books
  • Academic Search Complete

  • Art Abstracts
    This service comprises the bibliographic contents of 280 leading Art journals, museum bulletins and yearbooks. Coverage is from 1984 as an index, with added abstracts from 1994 to the present. It is updated monthly. Subject coverage spans all aspects of art, from visual to performing arts, and ranges from archaeology to television and video.

  • Art Full Text
    Primarily an Art database but also includes the full text of 17 academic film journals. It comprises the bibliographic contents of 280 leading Art journals, museum bulletins and yearbooks. Coverage is from 1984 as an index, with added abstracts from 1994 to the present. It is updated monthly. Subject coverage spans all aspects of art, from visual to performing arts, and ranges from archaeology to television and video.

  • Arts & Humanities Citation Index
    This is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals. Can be used from inside and outside the University.

  • Business Source Complete
    This source contains a mix of full text and citations of journal articles and market reports on arts management, cultural policy, publishing and various other business aspects of the creative industries.

  • Communication and Mass Media Complete
    This database indexes and provides abstracts for articles from over 400 journals in the field of communications and mass media, including film, radio, television and journalism. Also includes links to full text for many journal articles. Many journals are covered from their first issues to the present.

  • Emerald Management eJournals

  • Hospitality and Tourism Index
    This is a bibliographic database covering all areas of the hospitality and tourism industries and their management. This international resource contains over 440,000 records from 500 titles including Journal of Leisure Research and Annals of Tourism Research. Find articles on heritage management, cultural or heritage tourism & museums.

  • Humanities International Complete™ (HIC)
    HIC provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. It also includes all data from Humanities International Index, a comprehensive database covering journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities, which provides citations and abstracts for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations. Humanities International Complete is an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and educators interested in all aspects of the humanities.

  • IIPA - International Index to the Performing Arts Full Text
    This service indexes film, theatre and other performance journals and has an extensive backfile; abstracts are included from 1998. Some journals are available in full text.

  • International Bibliography of the Social Sciences

  • MLA International Bibliography
    MLA International Bibliography provides references on literature, language, film and theatre. Full references are given to articles in over 3,500 journals; to books and to book chapters, and to theses. Can be used from inside and outside the University.

  • Sage Journals Online
    Contains full-text articles of the most popular peer-reviewed journals in Communication Studies, Management & Organization Studies, Materials Science, Politics, Psychology, Sociology, and Urban Studies & Planning. Access is to subscribed journals only, get a list by clicking on “SAGE journals available to me”. Can also read summaries to journal articles we don’t subscribe to or which might be available via other databases.

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Market Research and Statistics
  • Adforum

  • Company Annual Reports Online (CAROL)
    Company reports on UK, European and International companies, including photography, publishing and media.

  • GMID
    This Global Marketing Information Database contains international market research from over 200 countries, with specific data on cultural indicators about museums publishing, tourism and other cultural industries.

  • Key Note
    Contains market reports on the UK industries, including music, tourism and newspapers.

  • Mintel

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Newspapers
  • Nexis UK
    Use this database if you need to know whether a certain topic has been in the news recently….or from the past 20 years.
    Search newspapers and trade magazines from all over the world, including the Financial Times from 1982 plus all other UK broadsheets.

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  Page last updated : : 02 May 2012