Media: Key Resources
This guide brings together key resources to help you find information relating to the study of media, including marketing, events, PR, journalism, television, radio, film and music
Source: BCU Assets
See key resources for media listed below.
Alternatively, see our multidisciplinary databases for researchers:
Journalism students may also be interested in our fashion and sport subject guides:
Key Resources
- Art Full Text This link opens in a new window
Search for abstracts and citations of journal articles, including some with full text links, on art, architecture, film and photography.
- Black Ballad This link opens in a new windowSearch or Browse Black Ballad's 500+ articles & videos created and edited by black women. Black Ballad is a UK based lifestyle platform that seeks to tell the human experience through eyes of black British women.
- BRAD This link opens in a new windowSearch for media advertising information contained in digital media, magazines, newspapers, radio and television.
- C19: The Nineteenth Century IndexCovering multiple content types including newspapers, as well as books, government documents and periodicals from the nineteenth century
- IEEE Xplore Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to books, journal articles, conference proceedings and standards of technical information for electrical engineering, computer science and electronics.
- Independent Radio This link opens in a new windowRadio recordings from between 1973 and 1996 from the archives of: Independent Radio Sharing Archive; LBC/Independent Radio News Archive and ILR South.
- International Index to Film Periodicals (FIAF) This link opens in a new windowAbstracts and citations from academic and popular film and cinema journals.Also included is access to the following 3 databases the International Index to TV Periodicals, the List of Periodicals Indexed and Treasures from the Film Archives.
- JSTOR Archival Journals and Primary Sources Collection This link opens in a new windowAccess to archive journal and primary source collections on a broad range of subjects.Includes access to the following archive journal collections: Arts & Sciences I-XV; Business IV; Hebrew Journals; Ireland; Life Sciences; Lives of Literature; Public Health Journals; Security Studies; and Sustainability, and the following primary source collections: 19th Century British Pamphlets; World Heritage Sites: Africa; Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa; and Global Plants.
- Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new windowSearch or browse more than 2 million classical, folk and world music tracks to play. Please log out when finished using. Only 12 concurrent users allowed at a time.
- Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new windowSearch this online encyclopedia for information and images on music and musicians from sources including the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the Oxford Dictionary of Music and the Oxford Companion to Music.
- Purple Guide This link opens in a new windowBrowse the various chapters of the Purple Guide, Purple Guide Lite and Welfare Handbook for information on health, safety and welfare for organisers of entertainment and music events.Please see our How do I log in to the Purple Guide? FAQ for help with logging in.
- Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching This link opens in a new windowSearch or browse current and previous UK television and radio listings.
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