Media databases
Databases for media communications and media production.
17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers
- Extensive collection of more than one thousand newspapers and pamphlets from 1600-1800.
- Based on a collection at the British Library gathered by Reverend Charles Burney.
- Coverage: Broad coverage of the humanities, science, and medicine.
- NOT included in the main library search.
19th Century British Library Newspapers
- Provides access to national, regional, and local 19th century British newspapers.
- It includes 48 titles which reflect the social and political developments of the time.
- NOT included in the main library search.
19th Century British Pamphlets Collection
- A digital collection of more than 26,000 significant pamphlets compiled from seven UK university libraries.
- Coverage: Key political, social, technological and environmental issues of their day.
- Included in the main library search.
Art, Design and Architecture Collection
- This collection covers the fields of visual and applied arts
Arts & Humanities
- Features hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre, and Cultural Studies.
- Full-text journals.
- Included in the main library search.
Box of Broadcasts (BoB)
- Off-air recording and media archive service.
- NOT included in the main library search.
British Cartoon Archive
- Contains more than 125,000 cartoons, fully-catalogued, searchable, and available to view online.
- 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.
British Periodicals Collections I and II
- Almost 500 British periodical runs from the 1680s to the 1930s, based on the UMI Microfilm Collection, 'Early British Periodicals'.
- Included in the main library search.
British Union of Fascists: newspapers and secret files
- Contains the three principal organs of the British Union of Fascists: Action (1936-1940), Blackshirt (1933-1939) and Fascist week (1933-1934).
- 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.
CCO - Philosophy Religion and Cultural Studies (Cambridge Companions Online)
- Provides introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics, and periods in the subject areas of literature, philosophy, classics, religion, and cultural studies.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Cision
- Cision can help discover relevant news, trends, and conversations that impact a brand, across all media channels in real time.
- The platform can help connect the right journalists and influencers to the story they will be most effective at promoting.
- 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.
Guardian and Observer (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
- 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.
- Included in the main library search.
Illustrated London News
- Covers the reporting period 1842 to 2003, including news of war, disaster, ceremonies, the arts and science.
- Included in the main library search.
Independent Local Radio
- Audio files from four archives of Independent Local Radio from 1973 to 1996.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Independent Voices
- Digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries.
- Produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.
- NOT included in the main library search.
John Johnson Collection
- A digitised document collection of more than 65,000 printed items of ephemera from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
- 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.
Mass Observation Online
- The Mass Observation Online archive specialises in material about everyday life in Britain.
- 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.
O'Reilly Online Learning
- Training guides for those in the field of IT, including developers, web designers and creative professionals.
- Includes books, videos, case studies, interactive tutorials, audio books and video.
- Included in the main library search.
Overton
- A searchable index of policy documents, guidelines, think tank publications and working papers.
- 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 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 biographies and articles from the British Film Institute 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.
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.
Times Higher Education (THE)
- A leading source of sector intelligence, news and analysis for global higher education and studying in the UK and abroad.
- Content includes digital editions of Times Higher Education, news, opinion, features, jobs, events and university rankings.
- 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.
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