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Media Production subject guide

Academic Search Ultimate

>> Go to Academic Search Ultimate

  • 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.

The contents of this database are included in mySearch

Can be selected using advanced search in mySearch

Adwanted Connected

>> Go to Adwanted Connected

Adwanted Connected is a media research, analysis and planning tool. It provides a powerful set of reports that can run trends, dig deeper into the data, run geo targeted media maps and more.

Username and password required. Details are available from the library area in Brightspace

Art & Architecture Complete

>> Go to Art & Architecture Complete

  • 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.

The contents of this database are included in mySearch

BFI Player

>> Go to 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.
  • Level of access: freely available content only

BoB

>> Go to 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.

>> Further information

British Library Sounds

>> Go to British Library Sounds

  • 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

>> Go to 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

>> Go to 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

>> Go to 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.

The contents of this database are included in mySearch

Ebook Central Academic Complete

>> Go to Ebook Central Academic Complete

  • 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.

The contents of this database are included in mySearch

Can be selected using advanced search in mySearch

EBSCO Host Databases

>> Go to EBSCO Host Databases

This is the hyperlink to the EBSCO database set configured to search in every database we have access to.

Hermes

>> Go 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

>> Go to Kanopy

  • Subject coverage: multi-disciplinary database of educational films
  • Type of content: online streaming audio-visual.

​The contents of this database are included in mySearch

Mintel

>> Go to Mintel

  • Subject coverage: For a full list of sectors, themes and demographics covered, click on the 'Category Overview' option when you access Mintel. Here's a shortlist of categories: Automotive; Beauty and Personal Care; Business to Business; Drinks; Financial Services; Food; Foodservice; Health & Nutrition; Household; Marketing & Communications; Pet; Retail & Apparel; Technology & Media; Travel, Leisure & Entertainment
  • Size/scope: covering domestic consumer products and services, plus marketing news and reports from UK trade press
  • Level of access: full text available.

Note: Use of Mintel is restricted to academic use only

>> Online Help

​The contents of this database are included in mySearch

Can be selected using advanced search in mySearch

News on Screen

>> Go to 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.

Newspapers

>> Go to Newspapers

Links to databases with newspaper content. Includes Nexis Uni (the main non-facsimile database), PressReader (platform hosting facsimile versions of recent newspaper and magazine editions), historical newspaper databases (e.g. The Times Digital Archive) and individual publication subscriptions (e.g. FT.com).

Nexis Uni

>> Go to 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.

​The contents of this database are included in mySearch

Can be selected using advanced search in mySearch

Passport (Euromonitor International)

>> Go to Passport

Note: On campus, you can access Passport as a guest user where you’ll be prompted to set up a Passport account. New users off-campus can only log-in using Open Athens where you’ll have to self-register the first time you visit. You must use your BU email account to register.

  • Subject coverage: online market research tool monitors industry trends and gives you strategic analysis and a market size and market share database for products across key countries. Passport is Euromonitor International's global market analysis software platform, which analyses the industry in countries around the world
  • Size/scope: 24 industry categories for 80 countries. Economy data for 210 countries
  • Type of content: marketing research reports
  • Level of access: full text.

>> Introduction to Passport video

PressReader

>> Go to PressReader

  • Subject coverage: newspapers
  • Size/scope: over 2,000 UK and international newspapers
  • Type of content: all major daily and business newspapers, also general business and industry publications
  • Type of content: facsimiles of newspapers
  • Date range: last 365 days for most titles (The Guardian last 14 days only)
  • Level of access: full text.

>> Quick Start Guide

Scopus

>> Go to Scopus

  • Subject coverage: sciences and social sciences
  • Size/scope: citation database indexing 15,000 peer-reviewed journals from more than 4,000 publishers, open access journals, conference proceedings, trade publications, book series, patent records and scientific web pages. It contains over 33 million records
  • Type of content: citation data
  • Date range: 1841-present
  • Level of access: some links to full text available.

Screendaily

>> Go to 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

>> Go to 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

>> Go to 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.

Stash

>> Go to Stash

Access to a growing archive of thousands of motion projects, showcasing a collection of motion design, animation and VFX projects plus behind-the-scenes features and interviews. 

Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching (TRILT)

>> Go to Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching (TRILT)

  • 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

TGI (Target Group Index) Snapshot

>> Go to TGI (Target Group Index) Snapshot

TGI Snapshot is Kantar Media’s newest Market and Consumer research tool and is a new and improved version of TGI SalesTab. 

TGI (Target Group Index) is the world's leading provider of single-source marketing and media surveys. Snapshot is a marketing research tool that allows users to easily analyse audience and consumer attitudes in relation to thousands of products and brands, as well as advertising medium.

  • Subject coverage: UK market research and demographic data from TGI Survey including 500 product areas and 4,000 brands
  • Type of content: market research and demographic data.

Web of Science

>> Go to Web of Science 

Note: Select UK Federation from Institutional Sign In and search for Bournemouth University

  • Subject coverage: arts, humanities, sciences and social sciences
  • Size/scope: citation databases that allow searching for a specific article by subject, author, journal or author address. It is also possible to search for articles that cite a known author or work

               Web of Science consists of:
               Science Citation Index 1899-present
               Social Sciences Citation Index 1898-present
               Arts & Humanities Citation Index 1975-present
               Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science 1990-present
               Biosis Previews Archive 1969-2008
               Medline 1950-present
               Journal Citation Reports and Essential Science Indicators

  • Type of content: academic journal article
  • Date range: 1945-
  • Level of access: some links to full text.

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