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AHRnet Art History Research
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Description
AHRnet (formerly Arts Search) consists of four related and linked databases:
Review - full text art and architecture journals
Arts & Architecture Profiles - biographical data on over 40,000 artists, architects, and designers
Design Abstracts Retrospective - abstracts of architecture and design journals published 1900-1996
Research Sources, The Poster - extensive information on the poster, including history, exhibition catalogues and journals 1890-1920s
Publisher
Design Research Publications
A-N Resources
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
An online resource promoting the visual arts and supporting artists and designers in their practice.
Coverage
Offers access to a wide range of publications, including a-n Magazine.
Publisher
Artists Information Company.
Art & Architecture Source *
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- More than 75% of the currently published journals in this database are included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
Bibliographic and full text database of leading art, design and architecture journals from around the world since 1984.
Coverage
The database covers journal articles published since 1984, with full text of over 900 titles.
Publisher
EBSCO
ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM)
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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
One of the major bibliographical sources of information on modern and contemporary arts dating from the late 19th century onwards.
Coverage
Coverage of journal articles published since 1974.
Publisher
ProQuest
Arts & Humanities Full Text *
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- Database is included in the main library search
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Description
This database features hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre, and Cultural Studies. It is designed to complement the following indexes:
- Art Bibliographies Modern
- British Humanities Index
- Design and Applied Arts Index
- MLA International Bibliography
- Philosopher's Index
Coverage
From the 1970s to the present day
Publisher
ProQuest
Audio Arts
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Description
Since its inception, by British artist William Furlong in 1972, the seminal sound art magazine, Audio Arts has become one of the most comprehensive aural archive of artists’ voices and sound art in the world.
Audio Arts arguably represents the most comprehensive and coherently-focused sound archive devoted to art and artists in the world, featuring exclusive contributions from more than 900 individual artists including Joseph Beuys, Ian Breakwell, Tracey Emin and Andy Warhol.
The Tate has digitised every published version of Audio Arts, alongside selected archive images for each audio-cassette, to create this online resource.
Publisher
Tate
Berg Fashion Library *
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The Berg Fashion Library is a unique new online portal which offers users fully cross-searchable access to an expanding range of Berg content collections – including the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion online, e-books, reference works, images.
Publisher
Bloomsbury
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
British Library Sounds
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Description
Contains over 12,000 recordings from the British Library's Sound Archive of the spoken word, music, interviews and sound effects.
Publisher
British Library
Business Source Complete *
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- More than 90% of the currently published journals in this database are included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
Covers UK and international business, management and economics issues across a range of sectors including construction, IT, education, and health. Provides full-text journal articles; market, company & industry sector reports; and country intelligence.
Coverage
Please note that UWE Bristol holds an extended license for Harvard Business Review and the 'Harvard Business Review Notice of Use Restrictions' that appears at the bottom of Harvard Business Review articles in Business Sources Complete does not apply.
Guides
- EBSCOhost research databases tutorial
- EBSCOhost playlist on EBSCO Support Tutorials YouTube channel, including additional videos tutorials on advanced searching, journal alerts, search history, my EBSCOhost folder, and creating a search alert.
Publisher
EBSCO
Design and Applied Arts 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.
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
Bibliographic database to journal articles published in over 450 international craft and design journals since 1973 and includes data on over 50,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops, and companies.
Coverage
Coverage of journal articles since 1974.
Publisher
ProQuest
Design Week
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
Design Week is a UK Design website specialising in design news and jobs.
Publisher
Centaur Media Ltd
FIAF Film International Index to Film Periodicals Database*
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Description
Includes several databases: Film Index International, International Index to Film, International Index to TV Periodicals, Treasures from the Film Archives, International Directory of Film/TV Documentation Collections, Bibliography of FIAF Members Publications.
Coverage
Indexes film details and criticism from the 1940s to present. This database also includes full text for a number of journal titles.
Guides
Publisher
ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Index to Theses
Index to Theses has changed its name to ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland
International Bibliography of Art (IBA)
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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
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
‘The definitive resource for scholarly literature on western art, IBA is the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA).’
The database adds 18,000 records per year, and gives unbroken coverage of journals that were indexed in BHA and IBA prior to 2010.
Coverage
Publications covered include at least 500 core journals, with an emphasis on specialist and rare titles that are not covered by other indexes, plus detailed coverage of monographs, essay collections, conference proceedings and exhibition catalogues.
Publisher
ProQuest
John Johnson Collection
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Description
A digitised document collection of more than 65,000 printed items of ephemera from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Includes theatrical and non-theatrical posters and fliers, popular prints, crime broadsheets and advertisements.
Coverage
Eighteenth century to early twentieth century.
Guides
Publisher
ProQuest
JSTOR *
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Description
UWE Bristol subscribes to the JSTOR multidisciplinary Arts and Sciences Collections I,II,III,V,VII, VIII and XIV. This incorporates access to a scholarly archive of over 1,000 full-text electronic journals in the following fields: history, economics, archaeology, classics, sociology, Asian, African, Latin American, Middle Eastern and Slavic studies, political science, music, film studies, performing arts, mathematics, ecology, psychology, business, art, architecture, language, literature, law, religion and public policy. These existing collections are complemented by the Ireland Collection which incorporates manuscripts, monographs and journals on Irish arts, humanities and sciences with materials that span from the 1780s to the present.
Coverage
Various coverage 1861-2007.
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Publisher
JSTOR
Mass Observation Online *
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Description
The Mass Observation Online archive specialises in material about everyday life in Britain. It contains papers generated by the original Mass Observation social research organisation (1937 to early 1950s) which involved the scientific observation of public attitudes and opinions. This online resource contains primary material in the form of file reports and topic collections as well as photographs and interactive maps.
Coverage
1937 - 1967
Publisher
Adam Matthews
MaterialDistrict
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
MaterialDistrict is the global network in the area of innovative materials. MaterialDistrict encourages joint innovation on the road to a more beautiful, sustainable and high-quality built environment. Around an independent and continuously growing collection of 2,000 exciting materials, MaterialDistrict connects professionals through exhibitions, trade shows, conferences, MaterialDistrict.com and social media.
Publisher
Materia B.V
Mintel
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- After clicking on the link, please fill in the registration details
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Description
This database gives full-text access to market survey information produced by Mintel, including market reports, product news and launch information, plus demographic and economic statistics.
Some full text publications are also available:
- Travel and Tourism Analyst
- Country Reports
- Asia Pacific Retail Handbook
- British Lifestyles
- European Retail Handbook
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Publisher
Mintel
News on Screen
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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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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- Database is not included in the main library search
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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 Product Tutorials
- Alerts Migration Guide
Publisher
Lexis Nexis Butterworths
Passport
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
A business information resource providing intelligence on industries, countries and consumers. It has a global perspective, with researchers working in 200 countries. Information includes full-text market reports, country reports, statistics, news and analysis.
Our subscription to Passport also includes access to Passport: Industrial, a database covering global production and supply chains, which provides an overview of the business-to-business marketplace. Find ‘Industrial’ as an option under the ‘Economies’ tab in the menu at the top of the Passport homepage.
Passport: Industrial provides economic data and analysis for the economies of 68 countries, covering 177 industries. There are detailed statistics, forecasts and industry reports for 18 core countries (including the UK) and key statistics for a further 50 countries, with extensive information about production, imports and exports and market sizes. Historic data goes back 15 years.
Coverage
Information includes full-text market reports, country reports, statistics, news and analysis.
Guides
- Guides, including a video on ‘Getting started with Passport’ can be accessed from the Passport Help page.
- Brochure for Passport: Industrial.
Publisher
Euromonitor International
SAGE Research Methods *
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- Database is included in the main library search
- The publisher does allow UWE students based at UK and international partner institutions (and the staff that support them) to access this database
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
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Publisher
Elsevier
The Times Digital Archive *
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- Database is included in the main library search
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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
Gale (Cengage)
UbuWeb
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
UbuWeb is a freely accessible collection devoted to avant-garde art in a wide variety of formats - including audio, video, photography, texts, poetry and more. Created by volunteers, UbuWeb curates a revisionist version of art history; one that is based on artistic production rather than on the perceived, or market-based, centre of the art world.
Guides
UbuWeb Frequently Asked Questions
Publisher
UbuWeb
Visual Arts Data Service
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Description
"An online resource for visual arts of over 100,000 images that are freely available and copyright cleared for use in teaching, learning and research in the UK."
Publisher
University College for the Creative Arts
The Vogue Archive *
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Description
A complete searchable archive of American Vogue, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution colour page images. Every page, advertisement, cover and fold-out has been included, with rich indexing enabling you to find images by garment type, designer and brand names.
Publisher
ProQuest
WGSN (Worth Global Style Network)
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
WGSN - an online service offering research, trend analysis and news to the fashion, design and style industries.
Publisher
WGSN
WGSN Lifestyle & Interiors
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Description
WGSN Lifestyle & Interiors is a product design and development tool that delivers specialist trend intelligence to buyers, designers and retailers working in the design, lifestyle, and interiors industry.
Publisher
WGSN
World Advertising Research Center (WARC) *
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Description
This database contains information on the worldwide advertising and marketing industries, including case studies, full text journal articles, conference papers, news, statistics and information on best practice.
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Publisher
WARC
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