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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.

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BoB

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  • 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.

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Communication Source

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  • 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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CREDOreference

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  • Subject coverage: online reference books including encyclopaedias, dictionaries and thesauri in a wide range of subject areas. Search single titles, subject clusters or all titles. 
  • Size/scope: over 600
  • Type of content: ebooks
  • Level of access: Some full text available.

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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.

The Guardian Digitised Newspaper

>> Go to The Guardian Digitised Newspaper

  • Subject coverage: news
  • Size/scope: Guardian Digitised Newspaper provides a full facsimile of The Guardian enabling you to see the pages as they were published
  • Type of content: newspaper articles
  • Date range: 2010 to date (3 month delay)
  • Level of access: full text available.

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers

>> House of Commons Parliamentary Papers

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  • Size/scope: 200,000 sessional papers
  • Date range: 1688 - 2004
  • Level of access: some full text available.

The Independent Digital Archive

>> Go to The Independent Digital Archive

  • Subject coverage: news
  • Size/scope: The Independent Digital Archive provides full facsimile, searchable copies of the entire run of the newspaper, from its very first issue in 1986 until the end of 2012, enabling you to see all the stories and pages as they were published. Users can search, retrieve and browse every article, page and edition of the newspaper, gaining insight into a crucial period of 20th/21st century culture and society and how the media represented it. Featuring journalists and columnists from across the political spectrum, the paper is generally regarded as centrist, taking idiosyncratic views on the free market, social issues and culture
  • Type of content: newspaper articles
  • Date range: 1986-2016
  • Level of access: full text available

JSTOR

>> Go to JSTOR

  • Subject coverage: multidisciplinary database
  • Size/scope: 1,500 academic journals indexed
  • Type of content: academic journal article
  • Date range: 1780-
  • Level of access: some full text available.

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Kanopy

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

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Lexis®Library

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  • Subject coverage: law and tax
  • Type of content: access to UK legislation currently in force, many law report series and some full text journals and UK newspapers. Includes full text works of legal commentary, plus forms and precedents. Provides an online version of Halsbury’s Laws. Contains EU and international legal materials
  • Level of access: some full text available.

>> Lexis Library Essential User Guide

BU staff/student login required for off-campus access (OALA)

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.

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Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers

>> Go to Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers

  • Subject coverage: news
  • Size/scope: 11,000 academic journals indexed
  • Type of content: UK national and regional newspapers of the 19th century
  • Date range: 1800-1899
  • Level of access: facsimile full text.

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Nineteenth Century British Pamphlets

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  • Subject coverage: 19th Century political, economic and social issues
  • Size/scope: 26,000 British pamphlets from the UK research Libraries (Cowen Tracts; Earl Grey Pamphlets Collection; Foreign & Commonwealth Office Collection; Hume Tracts; Knowsley Pamphlet Collection; LSE selections; University of Bristol selections
  • Type of content:Pamphlets
  • Date range: 1800-1899
  • Level of access: facsimile full text.

PEP-Web Archive

>> Go to PEP-Web Archive

  • Subject coverage: a comprehensive collection of psychoanalytic literature in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish and Turkish from the foremost authors and publishers in the field
  • Type of content: journals, books and videos
  • Level of access: full text.

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PressReader

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  • 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

Project Muse - Humanities Collection

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  • Subject coverage: articles from journals in the humanities from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies
  • Type of content: journal articles
  • Level of access: full text articles.

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The Times Digital Archive (TDA)

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  • Subject coverage: news
  • Size/scope: an excellent resource for historical and biographical research. TDA provides a full facsimile of The Times enabling you to see the pages as they were published. The paper of record, it is an authoritative source of contemporary reporting and commentary on events for the past 200 years
  • Type of content: newspaper articles
  • Date range: 1785-2013
  • Level of access: full text available.

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Web of Science

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

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