Film databases

Box of Broadcasts (BoB)

  • Off-air recording and media archive service.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

British Humanities Index

  • An international abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities and arts.
  • This indexing database provides article citations and abstracts, not full text.

British Library Sounds

  • Contains over 12,000 recordings from the British Library's Sound Archive of the spoken word, music, interviews and sound effects.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Business Source Ultimate

  • UK and international business, management and economics issues across a range of sectors including construction, IT, education, and health.
  • Included in the main library search.

Cambridge Journals Online

  • Cambridge Journals Digital Archive contains the full text from 170 journals, from volume 1, issue 1 to 1996.
  • Included in the main library search.

Cinema Projectionist

  • A digital archive and website on the history of cinema projection in Britain.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Communication and Mass Media Complete

  • A database covering journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study.
  • Included in the main library search.

Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI)

  • 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.

Independent Local Radio

  • Audio files from four archives of Independent Local Radio from 1973 to 1996.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

JSTOR

  • UWE Bristol subscribes to the JSTOR multidisciplinary Arts and Sciences Collections I,II,III,V,VII, VIII and XIV.
  • A scholarly archive of over 1,000 full-text electronic journals.

Kanopy

  • Access to over 18,000 films, including major blockbusters, documentaries and the Criterion collection.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

LinkedIn Learning (previously Lynda.com)

  • Video training for a vast number of software products, IT topics, and design and business skills.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Manchester Film Studies

  • Manchester Film Studies is a collection of e-books and one journal from prominent authors in the field of film.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

MLA International Bibliography

  • The MLA International Bibliography is a subject index.
  • Covers books and articles published on modern languages, literature, folklore, and linguistics.
  • Included in the main library search.

News on Screen

  • Database of 180,000 cinemagazine and newsreel stories linked to production documents and films.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Nexis

  • Full text database including UK national and regional newspapers, and worldwide newspapers and magazines.
  • Includes access to the Financial Times.
  • Also includes full-text information covering companies, industries, market surveys, countries, and people.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Project Muse

  • Online access to high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from scholarly publishers.
  • Included in the main library search.

SAGE Journals Online

  • Provides full-text access to the journals published by Sage to which UWE Bristol subscribes.
  • Included in the main library search.

SAGE Research Methods

  • A web-based research methods tool created to help researchers, staff and students with their research projects.
  • SRM focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, so can be used by researchers from the social sciences, health sciences and more.
  • Included in the main library search.

Scopus

  • The largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings.
  • Fields of research include science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
  • Included in the main library search.

Screen Studies

  • A dynamic digital platform taking users from script to screen and beyond.
  • Offering a broad range of content from Bloomsbury and Faber & Faber to support moving-image studies.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Screenonline

  • Online resource of British film and television, featuring hundreds of hours of film and television clips from the vast collections of the BFI National Archive.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Taylor & Francis

  • Provides access to over 2,500 full-text journals published by Taylor & Francis, Routledge, Psychology Press and Informa Healthcare.
  • Included in the main library search.

Taylor & Francis eBook Collection

  • Provides access to over 400 eBooks published by the Taylor & Francis publishing group.
  • Included in the main library search.

The Times Digital Archive

  • Access to back issues of The Times (London) newspaper online.
  • One of the most highly regarded resources for the study of 18th century history and onward.
  • Included in the main library search.

This Week programmes from 1956-1992

  • Programme information about This Week, the first ITV current affairs series, which ran from January 1956 to December 1992.
  • Includes information about the documentation which supports each programme.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

TRILT (Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching)

  • Descriptions of UK television and radio programmes, including terrestrial, cable, and satellite television; all national and many local radio stations.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

World Cinema Collection

  • Films from award winning directors, including films from the silent era through the twentieth century, to contemporary films worldwide.
  • Content is relevant to film studies students and to students engaged in multicultural studies, politics, history, literature and languages.
  • Included in the main library search.

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