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Arts & Humanities Full Text *
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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
Box of Broadcasts (BoB)
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- Video playback is currently not supported in Internet Explorer. So, if you are using Internet Explorer, please switch to another browser, such as Chrome or Firefox.
- Due to copyright restrictions, you need to be physically located in the United Kingdom to use Box of Broadcasts.
- Database is not included in the main library search
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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 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
Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics *
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Description
The Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics offers thousands of comprehensive and accessible essays on major authors, periods and genres, written by experts and designed for student readers. For the author companions, each writer is placed in literary and historical context; their major works are analysed, and their influence on later writers assessed.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge Journals Online *
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Description
Cambridge Journals Digital Archive contains the full text from 170 journals, from volume 1, issue 1 to 1996. Please note, we only subscribe to the latest issues of some of the journals. Subjects covered include: science and technology, animal science, agriculture, ecology and conservation, history, law, language, linguistics and literature, mathematics and computer science, medicine, music and drama, philosophy and religion, physical sciences, and politics and economics.
Publisher
Cambridge via JISC
Digital Theatre Plus
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Description
Digital Theatre Plus offers streamed films of leading British theatre productions for educational use in schools, colleges, and universities. Each production is supported by additional content, including interviews with the creative and production teams and written study guides.
Coverage
Includes a library of recent stage productions; exclusive behind the scenes documentaries; study guides; and filmed workshops to support teachers.
Publisher
Digital Theatre Plus
Drama Online *
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- Database is included in the main library search
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- UWE does not lease all the content on this database. So, if you encounter the error message "[t]he full content of this title is only available to members of institutions that have purchased access to this collection. Please get in touch with your institution’s administrator to request access", you will not be able to access this play via Drama Online. You may be able to find the play by searching for it via the main library search.
Description
Drama Online features the pre-eminent drama titles from the Methuen Drama, Arden Shakepeare, and Faber lists to form a collection of the most studied, performed and critically acclaimed plays from the last two and a half thousand years. It includes supporting practical, critical, and contextual works on acting and performance, theatre craft, technical theatre, critical interpretations, theatre history surveys, and major reference works on authors, movements, practitioners, periods, and genres.
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Early English Books Online
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Description
Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473 to 1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War. This is available through Historical Texts.
Coverage
Comprehensive digital collection of English books from 1473 to 1700.
Publisher
JISC
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
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Description
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) Parts 1 and 2 include a variety of full-text materials – from books and directories, Bibles, sheet music and sermons to advertisements – and works by many well-known and lesser-known authors, all providing a diverse collection of material for the researcher of the eighteenth century. Subject coverage includes literature, history, religion, law, the fine arts and science. Included are works from women writers of the eighteenth century; collections on the French Revolution; and numerous editions of the works of Shakespeare. Multiple editions of each individual work are offered to enable scholars to make textual comparisons of the works. There are digital images of every page of nearly 200,000 titles published during the eighteenth Century. This is available through Historical Texts.
Coverage
Covers period 1701-1800
Publisher
JISC
Guardian and Observer (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)*
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Description
Online access to The Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2003) newspapers. Easily searchable first coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. Titles include:
- The Guardian (1959-2003)
- The Manchester Guardian (1821-1825)
- The Manchester Guardian (1828-1900)
- The Manchester Guardian (1901-1959)
- The Manchester Guardian and British Volunteer (1825-1828)
- The Observer (1791-2003)
Coverage
The Guardian 1821-2003
The Observer 1791-2003
Guides
User guide for ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Publisher
ProQuest
Historical Texts
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
JISC Historical Texts includes the following databases:
- Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English civil war.
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) includes works on literature, history, religion, law, the fine arts and science. Included are works from women writers of the eighteenth century; collections on the French revolution; and numerous editions of the works of Shakespeare. Multiple editions of each individual work are offered to enable scholars to make textual comparisons of the works. There are digital images of every page of nearly 200,000 titles published during the eighteenth century.
- The Nineteenth Century books from the British Library Collection contains digitised versions of more than 65,000 first editions from the 19th century, covering philosophy, history, poetry and literature. The collection extends to over 25 million pages of previously rare and inaccessible content, and includes the original typeface and illustrations for each book.
Guides
Publisher
Various
JISC Journal Archives
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Description
JISC eCollections contains three platforms: Historic Books, Journal Archives and MediaHub containing thousands of journals, historical books, images, films, and sounds.
Publisher
JISC
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.
Guides
Publisher
JSTOR
Literary Encyclopedia
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Description
The Literary Encyclopedia focuses on literature originally written in English or translated into English. It provides details profiles of authors and texts, and basic knowledge on their cultural contexts. It includes more than 6,000 writers, philosophers and other persons of note, nearly 19,000 works and 1,600 literary and historical topics and events.
Guides
Publisher
Literary Dictionary Company
Literature Online *
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- Database is included in the main library search
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Description
With over a third of a million full-text works of poetry, prose, and drama in English, together with the definitive online criticism and reference library, Literature Online is the world's largest cross-searchable database of literature and criticism.
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Publisher
ProQuest Information and Learning Company. Altenative publisher name: Chadwyck-Healey.
MLA International Bibliography
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The accessibility statement for this database can be found here.
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
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
The MLA International Bibliography is a subject index for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics
Guides
Publisher
EBSCO
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
- Finding the Financial Times on Nexis
- 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: A&I
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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: 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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- Database is included in the main library search
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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
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Publisher
Elsevier
Shakespeare on Film, Television and Radio
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Description
The database delivers an authoritative online database of Shakespeare-related content in film, television, radio and video recordings, international in scope and dating from 1890 to the present day.
Coverage
1890-present
Publisher
BUFVC
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
Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive
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Accessibility statement
The Accessibility Statement for this database can be found here.
Access restrictions
- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive, 1902-2009 is a
complete online facsimile edition of every issue of one of the most
comprehensive literary publications of the 20th century. Founded in
1902, the Times Literary Supplement has been known over the past
100 years for its fine writing, literary discoveries and insightful
debate, making this digital archive an essential resource for
anyone studying, or supporting the study of, modern literature,
humanities and culture.
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Coverage
1902 to 2009.
Guides
Publisher
Cengage
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