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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AdForum
- Subject coverage: a library of advertising campaigns and case studies from around the world
- Type of content: case studies, images and audio visual content from advertising campaigns across a range of media
- Level of access: full access to the Creative Library.
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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 available from the library area in Brightspace.
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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EBSCO Host Databases
This is the hyperlink to the EBSCO database set configured to search in every database we have access to.
Foreign Broadcast Information Service
Note: Use of Foreign Broadcast Information is restricted to academic use only
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- Subject coverage: news
- Size/scope: translated broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals and government statements from nations around the globe. These media sources were monitored in their language of origin, translated into English and issued by a US government agency
- Type of content: broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals and government statements
- Date range: 1974-1996
- Level of access: some full text available.
FT.com
- Subject coverage: news
- Size/scope: the Financial Times is an international daily newspaper with a special emphasis on business and economic news. In addition to the content appearing in the printed newspaper the online version gives access to personalised news alerts, specialist blogs and videos
- Type of content: newspaper articles
- Date range: 2006 to date
- Level of access: full text available.
Note: A one off registration process may be required in which you will need to provide your University e-mail address.
BU staff/student login required (OALA)
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.
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
On-Campus Link | Off-Campus Link
- Subject coverage: multi-disciplinary database of educational films
- Type of content: online streaming audio-visual.
BU staff/student login required for off-campus access (Ezproxy)
Lexis+
- Subject coverage: law and tax
- Type of content: Contains UK lcgislation currently in force, many law report series, some full text law journals, and full text works of legal commentary, such as Halsbury's Laws. Includes practical guidance materials, such as step-by-step guides, practice notes, checklists, forms, and precedents.
- Level of access: some full text available.
Note: You may need to clear your browser's cooke cache beforing using this resource
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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
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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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Passport (Euromonitor International)
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 ander data for 210 consum countries
- Type of content: marketing research reports
- Level of access: full text.
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 Research Methods
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- Subject coverage: humanities and social sciences
- Size/scope: over 1200 titles supporting research process and methodology
- Type of content: books; journal articles, dictionaries; encyclopaedias and videos
- Level of access: full text
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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.
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
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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.
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.