BRAD is a comprehensive database of media in the United Kingdom including magazines, newspapers, radio, television, and out of home. BRAD provides information for advertisers including contacts and rates.

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Business and management research database, providing full text for more than 3,065 journals, including full text for more than 1,544 peer-reviewed business titles. Includes full text of Harvard Business Review since 1922. Updated daily.

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Creative Club contains over 1.5 million advertisements across all media. Search by company, brand or sector, for TV, Press, Direct Mail, Outdoor, Internet, Cinema and Radio ads.
Coverage is from 1998.

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Collection of more than 50,000 e-books covering all academic subjects including: Business and Economics; Computers, Engineering and Applied Science; Education; Humanities; Science, Medicine and Allied Health; Social Sciences. Use the QuickView option to view e-books. It is not necessary to install the Ebrary Reader.

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Bibliographic references with abstracts from c500 management, marketing and accounting journals (plus multidisciplinary topics such as law, hospitality and tourism, quality etc.) including full text of articles from over 100 management journals published by Emerald and links to other full text providers. International, but with good British coverage.

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Factiva provides full text access to 20,000+ sources from more than 159 countries in 22 languages, including more than 400 continuously updated newswires. Coverage includes all major daily and business newspapers, primarily back to early 1990s. Sources also include both general business and industry publications such as The Economist, Forbes, Fortune, Finanz & Wirtschaft, BusinessWeek, Far Eastern Economic Review, etc., plus industry-specific titles such as Advertising Age, Caterer & Hotelkeeper, Computerworld, Retail Week and Travel Weekly.

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Intute is a free online service providing you with access to good quality web resources for education and research in the areas of science and technology, arts and humanities, social sciences and health and life sciences.
NB. After July 2011 Intute will be available, but it will no longer be maintained or updated.

Site created from information supplied by key professional organisations in the area of advertising including the American Association of Advertising Agencies (AAAA), Advertising Research Foundation (ARF), Admap, European Society for Opinion and Marketing Research (ESOMAR), Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA). The site contains case studies, statistics, conference papers and full text of selected journals including the Journal of Advertising Research and ADMAP.

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