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19th Century British Library Newspapers
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Description
Provides access to national, regional, and local 19th century British newspapers.
Coverage
It includes 48 titles which reflect the social and political developments of the time.
Publisher
Cengage (Gale)
19th Century UK periodicals, series 1
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Description
This is a full text resource that spotlights the birth of modern magazine publishing in Britain. It charts the rise of children’s entertainment and education, and increasing interest in popular sports and hobbies. It also covers the political spectrum of women’s writing.
Publisher
Cengage (Gale)
BFI InView
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Description
BFI InView is a moving image collection of over 2,000 non-fiction and television titles from the 20th Century and early 21st Century.
Search tips available within site.
Coverage
Over 2,000 non-fiction and television titles from the 20th Century to the early 21st Century.
Publisher
British Film Institute (with JISC Funding)
Box of Broadcasts (BoB)
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- Due to copyright restrictions, you need to be physically located in the United Kingdom to use Box of Broadcasts.
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Description
Box of Broadcasts (BoB) is an off-air recording and media archive service. BoB is available to staff and students of member institutions of the British Universities Film & Video Council that hold an ERA+ license. This TV scheduling service allows you to record TV and radio programmes that are scheduled to be broadcast over the next seven days as well as retrieving programmes from the last seven days from a selected list of recorded channels.
Publisher
BUFVC - British Universties Film Video Council.
British Cartoon Archive
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Description
The British Cartoon Archive contains more than 125,000 cartoons, fully-catalogued, searchable, and available to view online. The Giles Collection comprises 15,000 cartoon images, with some 5,000 pages of related paperwork, covering British political and social history. This part of the Archive is available to use free of charge for educational purposes.
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Publisher
University of Kent
British Humanities Index
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- This indexing database provides article citations and abstracts, not full text. You can find out if the full text is available by using the library search or by clicking the ‘check for full text’ links in the database
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Description
An international abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities and arts. The British Humanities Index indexes over 370 internationally respected humanities journals and weekly magazines, as well as quality newspapers published in the United Kingdom, the United States, and other English-speaking countries.
Coverage
Coverage from 1962 onwards.
Publisher
Proquest
Communication & Mass Media Complete *
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- More than 90% of the currently published journals in this database are included in the main library search
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Description
Communication and Mass Media Complete is a database covering journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study. Content includes over 800 journals (500 of which are available full text).
Coverage
1915 - present
Publisher
EBSCO
Encyclopedia of Human Rights
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Description
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Human Rights covers a wide range of topics, including key organisations, events, and leading figures.
Publisher
OUP
Independent Local Radio
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Description
Audio files from four archives of Independent Local Radio from 1973 to 1996:
- the Independent Radio Sharing Archive (1973-1990) brings together materials originally created as the Independent Local Radio (ILR) Sharing Scheme for which those working in features, drama, music and news departments of commercial radio could offer their work to be used throughout the UK
- LBC/Independent Radio News Archive (4,000 hours of content from the collections of the London Broadcasting Company/ Independent Radio News Archive, from its beginnings in 1973 up to 1995)
- ILR South (1300 programmes deposited by independent local radio stations in Dorset, Hampshrie and Berkshire area)
- Radio Research Database (this resource aims to carry a record of all current radio-centred research in the UK).
Coverage
1973-1996
Publisher
BUFVC
Index to Theses
Index to Theses has changed its name to ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland
MediaPlus
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Description
MediaPlus is the "definitive academic video, image and sound resource", enabling you to search one interface for audio, moving and still images from a number of collections. The material includes video, image and sound from Film and Sound Online, NewsFilm Online and Digital Images for Education, as well as linking out to various other restricted and unrestricted resources.
This resource is for education use only.
Coverage
Early twentieth century to present day.
Publisher
Alexander Street Press
News on Screen
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Description
Database of 180,000 cinemagazine & newsreel stories linked to production documents & films.
Coverage
1910-83.
Publisher
BUFVC
Nexis
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Description
Full text database including UK national and regional newspapers and trade press plus many newspapers and magazines published worldwide.
Also includes full-text information covering companies, industries, market surveys, countries, and people.
Coverage
A range of European language titles are covered; other worldwide sources are English language.
Please note the latest month of The Financial Times is not available on Nexis. Please use the Library's print copy instead.
Guides
- Nexis News Quick Start Guide
- Nexis Advanced Search Guide
- Nexis UK Tutorial for Finding Newspaper Articles
- Finding the Financial Times on Nexis - video and written guide
- Alerts Migration Guide
Publisher
Lexis Nexis Butterworths
Project Muse *
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Description
Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from scholarly publishers. MUSE began in 1993 as a pioneering joint project of the Johns Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at JHU. Grants from the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities allowed MUSE to go live with JHU Press journals in 1995. Journals from other publishers were first incorporated in 2000, with additional university press and scholarly society publishers joining in each subsequent year.
Guides
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland
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- This database provides thesis citations and abstracts, not full text. Full text might be available through the British Library Ethos service, or via inter-library loan
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Description
This database was formerly known as Index to Theses, it is the most comprehensive available record of doctoral theses from the United Kingdom and Ireland. The collection offers the most comprehensive available listing of theses, with abstracts, accepted for higher degrees by universities in the United Kingdom and Ireland, since 1716.
Coverage
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland: Business
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland: Health & Medicine
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland: History
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland: Literature & Language
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland: Science & Technology
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland: Social Sciences
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland: The Arts
Publisher
ProQuest
Scopus *
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Description
Scopus is an abstract and citation database of peer-review literature, including books, conference proceedings and journals, covering the following fields of research: science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
Coverage
Over 66 million records
Guides
Publisher
Elsevier
The Times Digital Archive
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Description
The Times Digital Archive provides convenient access to an
extraordinary library of back issues of this renowned newspaper
online.
By taking the microfilm collection of The Times (London) and
producing a high-resolution digital format with searchable images,
The Times Digital Archive represents unprecedented access to one of
the most highly regarded resources for the study of 18th century
history and onward.
Coverage
Coverage from 1785 to 2010
Publisher
Thomson/Gale
This Week programmes from 1956 - 1992
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Description
This database provides programme information about This Week, the first ITV current affairs series, which ran from January 1956 to December 1992. It includes data on programmes made between 1978-1986, when the series was renamed TVEye. The database gives an in-depth view of the programmes in the series, including information about its personnel; information on its content, on the technology with which it was produced, and on its style. It also includes information about the documentation which supports each programme, with notes on whether it is available to researchers and where it can be found.
Note:Login by selecting University of the West of England from the dropdown list.
Coverage
1956-1992.
Publisher
BUFVC
TRILT (Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching)
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Description
TRILT is an online database describing: UK television and radio programmes, including terrestrial, cable, and satellite television (with regional variations); all national and many local radio stations.
Coverage
Listings for more than 300 TV and radio channels with data from 1995 onwards.
Publisher
BUFVC
Zetoc
Access restrictions
- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
The database contains details of approximately 20,000 current journals and 16,000 conference proceedings published per year. With almost 15 million article and conference records, the database covers every imaginable subject in science, technology, medicine, engineering, business, law, finance.
Coverage
Updated daily. An index that contains references only, not full text. Information provided is minimal and abstracts are not included. To check whether an item is available (in either printed or electronic format) search the library catalogue. Coverage: From 1993. Subject areas: Multidisciplinary.
Guides
- FAQs and help available from within the site.
Publisher
Mimas at the University of Manchester on behalf of the British Library.