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Databases for Media and Communications (SSH Faculty)

Please note that you may need to enter your network username and password to use these databases. Alternatively you can use your library borrower number and PIN.

Please also try the tutorials for many of the databases below at: Catalogue & Database Tutorials.

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Full Text Databases
  • Academic Search Complete
    A very large, multidisciplinary database, which includes scholarly
    journals as well as newspapers and popular magazines. Indexes well over
    8,000 journal titles, including more than 4,700 full text journals.
    Covers area studies, arts, creative writing, education, film, history, humanities, journalism, language and linguistics, literature, performing arts, philosophy, sociology, and many other disciplines.

  • Arts on Film Archive
    On-line access to a large range of films on art produced in the United Kingdom since the 1950s; including all 450 films made by the Arts Council England between 1953 and 1998 and several films produced till 2003 by the dance Department of ACE.

  • BFI In View
    Over 2,000 non-fiction film and television titles from the 20th century to the early 21st. Explore and download rarely seen government films, written documents, newsreels, TV documentaries, discussion programmes and parliamentary recordings relating to the recent history of Britain.

  • Bridgeman Education
    An online image database of over 260,000 high-quality images, with 500 new images added weekly. Worldwide coverage of the visual culture of civilizations from prehistoric times to the present. The images are supplied by museums, galleries and private collections. Images cover a wide range of subjects, from Medicine to Theatre and from Geography to Politics. Every image has been copyright-cleared for educational use by staff and students. An online tutorial is available.

  • British Periodicals Collections I & II
    The searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images. Topics covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, the fine arts, the social sciences,literature, music, art, drama, archaeology and architecture.

  • British Universities Film and Video Council: ALL BUFVC
    Search nine online databases relating to film, television and radio content from 1986 onwards: News on Screen (The online resource for the study on newsfilm); Shakespeare (Shakespeare on film, television and radio); This Week (This Week programmes from 1956-1992); ILR Sharing (The Independent Local Radio archive); ILR South (The ILR South radio archive); The LBC/IRN Audio Archive (London Broadcasting Company radio and Independent Radio News); TVTiP (TV Times listings from 1955-1985); Find DVD (A guide to audio visual materials for educational use); TRILT (The online source for UK television and radio data). You can search more than 13 million records in one go, or one collection at a time, and link to clips and films where relevant.

  • Communication and Mass Media Complete
    Index and abstracts for articles from over 400 journals in this field, including radio, television and journalism. Includes links to full text for many articles.

  • EUscreen
    EUscreen offers free online access to videos, stills, texts and audio from European broadcasters and audiovisual archives. Explore selected content from early 1900s until today.

  • Global Market Information Database (GMID)
    An international market research database with country data, consumer lifestyles, consumer market sizes, forecasts, companies and brands, major market profiles, market analysis.

  • IIPA: International Index to the Performing Arts
    Indexes journal articles across the whole field of performance, including dance, film, drama, broadcasting etc.; access to some full text articles. Coverage 1998 onwards.

  • Key Note
    Find consumer research, market insight and analysis on major UK industries, consumer and business services sectors. Additionally, there is access to in-depth business ratio information, from the business Intelligence section.

  • Mintel Reports
    Provides consumer market research reports on UK services industry.

  • NewsFilm Online
    NewsFilm Online offers access to over 3,000 hours of downloadable television news and cinema newsreels, selected from the ITN/Reuters Television archives.

  • Radio at BUFVC (Felicity Wells Memorial Archive)
    Online archive of UK commercial radio.

  • Screenonline
    BFI Screenonline is an online encyclopaedia of British film and television featuring hundreds of hours of film and television clips from the vast collections of the BFI National Archive, and several hours of recorded interviews with film and TV personalities. It is the single most extensive publicly available resource devoted to British film and television.
    Video and audio material can only be viewed in the University.

  • Zanran
    Search engine for data & statistics - graphs, charts and tables.

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Indexes and Abstracts
  • IngentaConnect
    Index to journal articles across a range of subjects, including links to full text for some journals.

  • International Index to the Performing Arts
    An index to articles from a wide range of performing arts journals, some of which are available full text.

  • Sage Journals Online
    You can search for articles across all Sage online journals, but access to full text is only available for articles from journals subscribed to by the library.

  • Social Sciences Citation Index
    Index to the journal literature of the social sciences, including author abstracts, available via the Web of Knowledge.

  • ZETOC: British Library's Electronic Table of Contents
    Multidisciplinary database containing almost 15 million records of journal articles and conference proceedings, including abstracts: 1993 onwards.

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