Academic Search Ultimate
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- Subject coverage: Science; social science; education; psychology; language and linguistics; arts and literature
- Size/scope: over 17,000 titles
- Type of content: journal articles, book reviews, conference proceedings
- Level of access: Full text of over 10,000 titles.
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Art & Architecture Complete
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- Subject coverage: art, architecture, design
- Size/scope: over 1,000 titles
- Type of content: journal articles, books, images
- Level of access: full text of over 600 titles.
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BFI Player
- Subject coverage: National and regional archives of the BFI, including 120 years of Britain on film, capturing our lives and our stories
- Type of content: thousands of preserved short films and features.
BoB
- Subject coverage: access TV and radio programmes from over 65 'free-to-air' channels using a programme guide and a search option. Option to schedule recordings up to seven days in advance and request programmes broadcast over the previous 30 days. Search BoB to access other users' recorded programmes. Permanent archive of all broadcast content from nine channels: BBC1 London / BBC2 / BBC4 / ITV London / Channel 4 / More4 / Channel 5 / BBC Radio 4 / BBC Radio 4 Extra. Content plays in your web browser with access available both on and off campus.
- Type of content: TV and radio programmes
- Date range: 2007 to present
- Level of access: BU staff/student login required; registration required on first use. Available off-campus, but not outside the UK.
British Library Sounds
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- Subject coverage: Archival recordings from the British Library, National Sound Archive of interview and conversations with leading British cultural figures, African music and writing and sound
- Type of content: audiovisual material.
British Pathe
- Subject coverage: News, sport, social history and entertainment
- Size/scope: 3500 hours
- Type of content: Archive of moving images
- Date range: 1896 to 1970.
NB: Set up a personal account by using the "Join" button at the top right of the British Pathe page. This will allow you to view the films but not to buy stills.
Broadcast
- Subject coverage: a source of news and feature articles for the TV industry, and includes access to Broadcast Magazine
- Type of content: news and current awareness
- Level of access: full text.
Note: to ensure access to the full content, users will need to register using their bournemouth.ac.uk email address.
Communication Source
- Subject coverage: communication studies, mass media, journalism
- Size/scope: over 1000 journal titles
- Type of content: journal articles, encyclopaedias, handbooks
- Level of access: full text of over 600 journals.
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Ebook Central Academic Complete
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- Subject coverage: multidisciplinary database of ebooks
- Size/scope: 146,000 e-books covering all academic subjects including: business and economics; computers, engineering and applied science; education; humanities; science, medicine and allied health; social sciences
- Type of content: academic books
- Level of access: full text.
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EBSCO Host Databases
This is the hyperlink to the EBSCO database set configured to search in every database we have access to.
Hermes
- Subject coverage: Multidisciplinary listing of dvds
- Size/scope: 26,000 titles either currently or once in distribution
- Type of content: dvds
- Date range: 1896 onwards
- Level of access: bibliographic.
Kanopy
- Subject coverage: multi-disciplinary database of educational films
- Type of content: online streaming audio-visual.
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News on Screen
- Subject coverage: newsreels and cinemagazines
- Size/scope: 160,000 records
- Type of content: newsreels, cinemagazines, production documents, and archive footage
- Date range: 1910-1979
- Level of access: moving image and full text.
Access is restricted to ac.uk domains. To access complete the simple registration form supplying name and e-mail address.
Note: The off-campus connection link above is the only off-campus access route for this resource.
Nexis Uni
- Subject coverage: multidisciplinary database of local, regional, national, and international newspapers. It also includes journals, broadcasts, newswires, blogs, legal sources, and business/company information
- Type of content: local, regional, national, and international newspapers, with some journals and other media
- Level of access: full text.
Note: View the training videos in Nexis Uni Help to find out how to use the database effectively.
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Screendaily
- Subject coverage: a source of news and feature articles for the film industry, and includes access to Screen International
- Type of content: news and current awareness
- Level of access: full text.
Note: to ensure access to the full content, users will need to register using their bournemouth.ac.uk email address.
ScreenOnline
- Subject coverage: Film and TV history
- Size/scope: The British Film Institute's [BFI] definitive guide to Britain's film and TV history.
- Type of content: Mixed media.
Note: Film and television clips can be viewed on campus only
Simply Scripts
- Subject coverage: Scripts, screenplays and transcripts
- Size/scope: Movie scripts, television teleplays, radio transcripts from the golden age of radio, anime scripts and transcripts and plays.
- Type of content: Scripts
- Level of access: Full text available.
Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching (TRILT)
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- Subject coverage: television and radio station programme listings
- Size/scope: listings service covering around 300 UK television and radio stations. Includes terrestrial, cable and satellite television (and regional variations), all national and many local radio stations, Asian-language, Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Welsh television and radio. Data is available at least five days in advance of transmission enabling you to identify forthcoming broadcasts for Off-Air Recording
- Type of content: programme listings
- Date range: 1995 to date.
Further information about off-air recording
Note for off-campus use: At the web site select the Sign in link to log on