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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AM Research Methods
- Subject coverage: humanities and social sciences
- Type of content: “How to” guides, case studies, videos, and essays that provide guidance about working with primary sources. From help with where to find historical documents to best analytical approaches, this platform gathers instruction and practical advice from experts around the globe. For practice applying the lessons, there are numerous high-quality images of historical items from archives worldwide to explore
- Level of access: full access.
Archives Hub
- Subject coverage: a unique and reliable source of information about archival collections in higher education institutions in the UK
- Size/scope: archival collections held by over 140 UK universities and colleges
- Type of content: catalogue of archival collections.
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.
British Library Sounds
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- Subject coverage: archival recordings from the British Library, National Sound Archive of interview and conversations with leading British cultural figures, African music and writing and sound
- Type of content: audiovisual material.
British Pathe
- Subject coverage: news, sport, social history and entertainment
- Size/scope: 3500 hours
- Type of content: archive of moving images
- Date range: 1896 to 1970.
NB: Set up a personal account by using the "Join" button at the top right of the British Pathe page. This will allow you to view the films but not to buy stills.
British Periodicals
- Subject coverage: English literature, philosophy, history, science, the social sciences, music, art, drama, archaeology and architecture; British history and culture
- Size/scope: over 460 journals
- Type of content: journal articles
- Date range: late seventeenth century to early twentieth century
- Level of access: full text.
Burney Collection
The Burney Collection includes nearly one million pages from 1,270 parliamentary papers, pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks, and newspapers published in England, Ireland and Scotland between 1600-1800. Full facsimile and fully searchable.
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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Early Modern Books
- Subject coverage: multidisciplinary database of ebooks
- Size/scope: 25,000 e-books covering the printed record of early modern Europe, drawing together a diverse array of printed sources from the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries
- Level of access: full-colour, high-resolution (400 ppi) facsimile images scanned directly from the original printed sources.
EBSCO Host Databases
This is the hyperlink to the EBSCO database set configured to search in every database we have access to.
European Views of the Americas 1493-1750
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- Subject coverage: printed records about the Americas written before 1750
- Size/scope: 32,000 records
- Date range: 1493-1750
- Level of access: bibliographic.
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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 John Johnson Collection
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- Subject coverage: database of printed ephemera
- Size/ scope: 65,000 scanned items
- Type of content: printed ephemera
- Date range: 1540 -1975
- Level of access: scanned images.
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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Migration to New Worlds
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- Subject coverage: migration to the New World and Australasia between 1800 and 1924
- Size/scope: over 250,000 images
- Type of content: Colonial Office files on emigration, diaries and travel journals, ship logs and plans, printed literature, objects, watercolours, and oral histories
Newspapers
- Subject coverage: This link provides access to our specialised newspaper databases, which encompass a diverse range of valuable resources. These include historical news archives, legal periodicals, finance newspapers, and a wealth of additional news content.
- Type of Content: newspaper articles, news pamphlets, news archives, and facsimiles of newspapers
Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers
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Parts 1 and 2 of the British Library Newspapers collection, spanning 1800-1900, contains regional and local newspapers. The content totals over three million pages and reflects the social and political developments of the time. Coverage includes everything from well-known historic events and cultural icons of the time, to sporting events, arts, and culture. This resource also includes contextual essays regarding the role of newspapers in the Victorian age, bibliographic headnotes, and a chronological overview. Full facsimile and fully searchable.
Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals
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Part 1: Women’s, Children’s, Humour, and Leisure. This resource includes full-text of 100 titles and 1.2 million pages from periodicals published in the UK between 1800 and 1900. Its focus is on the birth of modern magazine publishing in the UK. Content included:
- Women's writing, from Hearth and Home to the suffragist, The Vote via Women and Josephine Butler's The Dawn
- The rise of children's entertainment and education, with titles including Boys' Own and Little Folks
- Popular sports and hobbies, from gardening and horse racing to cricket and cycling
- Satirical and comic titles such as Punch, Fun, Judy and Figaro
- Newly captured images, including approximately 8,000 in colour.
Full facsimile and fully searchable.
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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The Times Digital Archive
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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.