Media databases

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.

Journals

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.

Journals Current awareness

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.

Commentary

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.

Commentary

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.

Journals

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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