Databases: journalism

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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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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.

Guides

British Cartoon Archive help page

Publisher

University of Kent

British Humanities Index

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Access restrictions

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

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS)

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Description

The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) daily reports have been the principal record of political and historical open-source intelligence for more than 65 years. The original mission of the FBIS was to monitor, record, transcribe, and translate radio broadcasts from foreign governments, official news services, and clandestine broadcasts from occupied territories. The FBIS daily reports digital collection consists of those reports, transcribed as events were reported locally, which were then translated to English.

Publisher

Thompson Henry

Illustrated London News *

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Description

The London Illustrated News covers the reporting period 1842 to 2003, including news of war, disaster, ceremonies, the arts and science.

Coverage

1842-2003

Publisher

Cengage Learning

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

National Geographic Virtual Library *

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Description

Search and browse the entire archive of National Geographic, from 1888 to current.

Coverage

1888 - current

Publisher

Gale Cengage

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

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: A&I

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Access restrictions

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: A&I: Business
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: A&I: Health & Medicine
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: A&I: History
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: A&I: Literature & Language
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: A&I: Science & Technology
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: A&I: Social Sciences
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: A&I: The Arts

Publisher

ProQuest

SAGE Research Methods *

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Description

SRM (Sage Research Methods) is a web-based research methods tool created to help researchers, staff and students with their research projects. SRM links over 100,000 pages of SAGE’s book, journal and reference content with advanced search and discovery tools. Researchers can explore methods concepts to help design research projects, understand a particular method or identify a new method. SRM focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, so can be used by researchers from the social sciences, health sciences and more.

Publisher

Sage

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

Scopus tutorial

Publisher

Elsevier

The Times Digital Archive *

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Access restrictions

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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.

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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

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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.