Media Communications databases

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.

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.

Business Source Complete

  • 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.

Communication and Mass Media Complete

  • A database covering journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study.

Independent Local Radio

  • Audio files from four archives of Independent Local Radio from 1973 to 1996.
  • 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.

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.
  • Also includes full-text information covering companies, industries, market surveys, countries, and people.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Oxford History of Western Music

  • The Oxford History of Western Music offers an unmatched account of the evolution of Western classical music.
  • Includes all 1.25 million words, 500 images, and 1,800 musical examples
  • 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.

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.

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.

Zetoc

  • Details of approximately 20,000 current journals and 16,000 conference proceedings published per year
  • An index that contains references only, not full text.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

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