A database enables you to search and retrieve information using keywords in your subject.

Depending on what you are studying, it is likely that you will need to search a number of databases.  This is because different journals on the same topic such as photography or television, can be held in different databases.

Some databases are:

• full text, where you can read the full article usually as a pdf scan of the article
• abstracted, where brief description of the article is available.  If the full text is not available you will need to check for our electronic access or make an inter-library loan.
• indexed, where there is only a reference with no more information.  In this case you have little to go on about whether to read the article.  to access it you will need to check for our electronic access or make an inter-library loan

All the following databases can be accessed through the e-library pages of the Portal from on or off campus.  If you are off campus use the gateway as details of how to ask for help with access difficulties can also be found here.

Art Full Text (WILSONWEB)
This covers the area of photography, design, motion pictures, television and video.  Includes some full text.

Arts and Humanities Citations Index
Covers the areas of art, radio, telvision and film from 1981 onwards.  Only abstracts and index.

ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts
Covers the area of communication and cultural anthropology.  It also covers many other areas to do with health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education and can be useful for resarchiong these areas related to the media.

BHI: British Humanities Index
Includes humanities journals, weekly magazines and UK newspapers.  Subjects covered include art, cinema and music.

Box of Broadcasts: BoB
A shared off-air recording service where you can use your own account to record and retrieve recordings from freeview televsion and radio channels.

BRAD
Provides ‘business critical’ information for advertising and marketing professionals including UK demographics, media industry overviews and audience data for newspapers, magazines, television and radio.

Broadcast Now
Provides 5 years of full text access to the trade paper Broadcast.  Broadcast is the weekly newspaper for the UK TV and radio industry.

Creative Club
Is the UK’s largest online advertising archive across all media.

DAAI: Design and Applied Arts Index
Covers the area of design and designers.

Digital Arts
Provides full-text coverage of the art of graphic design, 3D, animation, video, effects, web and interactive design, in print and online. It includes features and reviews of digital media equipment, software and techniques.

FAME
Provides financial accounts for over 550,000 public and private companies in the Uk and Ireland.

Humanities International Index
Covers all ares of the humanities

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
Covers four core social science diciplines including anthropology, such as the study of human beings and cultural developments.

JSTOR
Search an archive of art based journal articles

LexisLibrary
This is a legal database but by selecting the word News, this opens up a newspaper database of articles from national, local and regional Uk newpapers.

Mad.co.uk
Online community for marketing, media, new media, advertising and design.

PsycINFO
Although this is a psychology database it includes related disciplines that may be of interest in this area.

SAGE Premier
This database has a high full text content for many areas and covers the area of humanities, including communication, media studies, cultural studies and gender studies.

SwetsWise
This is a full text database of academic journals and you can search carry out a content search for an article.

Screenonline
A BFI website devoted to the history of British film and television, and to Britain’s social history as revealed by film and television. Includes access to view hundreds of hours of video clips.

Stash
Stash is a magazine in the form of an online video library of animation, VFX and motion design.

TRILT
Searchable UK television and radio data, including programme listings for more than 300 TV and radio channels from 1995 onwards.

Twelvepoint.com ScriptWriter magazine
Insider knowledge and networking for screenwriters. Guidance on writing, pitching your scripts, writing treatments for movies, writing television scripts, finding out about free scriptwriting software, creating a lesson plan, improving your writing technique, learning how to negotiate a contract and much more!

WARC.com
WARC (World Advertising Research Center): includes case studies, best practice papers and advertising campaigns relating to advertising, marketing and market research.