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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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
- 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.
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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CREDOreference
- 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
This is the hyperlink to the EBSCO database set configured to search in every database we have access to.
The Guardian Digitised Newspaper
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- 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
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- Subject coverage: detailed primary sources for the history of Britain, its former colonies and the wider world
- Size/scope: 200,000 sessional papers
- Date range: 1688 - 2004
- Level of access: some full text available.
The Independent Digital Archive
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- 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
- 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
- Subject coverage: multi-disciplinary database of educational films
- Type of content: online streaming audio-visual.
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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
- 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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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.
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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SAGE Reference Online
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- Subject coverage: multidisciplinary database focusing on social sciences
- Size/scope: 60 reference books and encyclopaedias published by Sage
- Type of content: reference books (e.g. dictionaries and encyclopaedias)
- Level of access: full text available.
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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.
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: 1785-2019
- Level of access: full text available.
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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.