Arts and Media

Academic Onefile [electronic resource].
Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.

Business Source Premier [electronic resource].
Via EBSCOhost databases. Provides full-text for approximately 2,300 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and marketing. Includes Dun & Bradstreet company information.

IIPA: International Index to Perfoming Arts [electronic resource].
A performing arts journal resource with over 465,000 indexed articles, plus detailed abstracts and full text from 1864 to the present, covering film, theatre, and dance.

ProQuest Newspapers, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Guardian, Independent, Times [electronic resource].
Updated daily. Database of the Daily Mail & Mail on Sunday; Daily Telegraph & Sunday Telegraph; Evening Standard; Financial Times; Guardian & Observer; Times and Sunday Times; Independent. Coverage is from at least January 1998 onwards for all titles.

Sage Journals Online (Sage Premier) [electronic resource].
SAGE Journals Online is the delivery platform that provides online access to the full text of individual SAGE journals. The SAGE Full-Text Collections, SAGE's award-winning, discipline-specific research databases, are also available on SAGE Journals Online.

ScreenOnline [electronic resource].
BFI Screenonline is an online encyclopaedia of British film and television featuring hundreds of hours of film and television clips from the vast collections of the BFI National Archive, and several hours of recorded interviews with film and TV personalities.

Spotlight [electronic resource].
SPOTLIGHT IS FOR DRAMA STUDENTS' USE ONLY.
Casting directory listing over 30,000 performers, including actors and actresses, child artists, presenters and stunt artists. Behind-camera specialists such as directors, choreographers and stage managers are also featured. Also provides the entertainment industry with powerful communication tools that are central to the casting process.

ASSIA [electronic resource].
ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts). Covers English language journals in applied social sciences. Includes health, economics, social issues & social policy, organisational behaviour and communication.

British Rates and Advertising Data (BRAD) [electronic resource].
Online version of BRAD (British Rates and Advertising Data), the daily guide to advertising media.

Carl Giles Digital Archive [electronic resource].
The British Cartoon Archive is a library, archive and gallery dedicated to the history of British cartooning over the last two hundred years. Located at the University of Kent in Canterbury, it holds the national collection of cartoons of political and social comment published in British newspapers and magazines. The British Cartoon Archive Digitisation Project funded by JISC through its Digitisation Programme, has digitised the Carl Giles Archive, the single most important archive of British newspaper cartoons, and a key resource for British political and social history that has never before been open to the public. Thanks to this funding, staff, students and researchers at colleges and universities in the UK will be able to access and use the entire Giles Collection of 15,000 cartoon images, with some 5,000 pages of related paperwork, free of charge for educational purposes.

Creative Club [electronic resource].
Creative Club provides an archive of over 1.5 million UK adverts across all media. Users can search by company, brand or sector for TV, press, direct mail, outdoor, cinema and radio ads. The archive is updated in real time, and ads can be downloaded for inclusion in coursework; the database can also be used for information on campaign costs.

IngentaConnect [electronic resource].
IngentaConnect offers access to article summaries of over 2500 publications, along with the full text of over 4500 publications from 150 publishers (including: Academic Press, Arnold, Blackwell Science, Blackwell Publishers,Elsevier, Gordon and Breach, Harwood Academic, Portland Press, Professional Engineering Publishing and White Horse Press).

Oxford Reference Online [electronic resource].
All major Oxford University Press reference works, including the Companions series, are searchable individually or across the whole database. Strong in the Humanities, Languages, Science and Medicine.

ScienceDirect (Science Direct) [electronic resource].
Database containing over 1000 full text journals from Elsevier Science and the leading scientific, technical and medical publishers. Covers life, physical, technical and social sciences.

RefWorks [electronic resource].
RefWorks is an online research management, writing and collaboration tool designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.

TRILT: The Television Index [electronic resource].
The BUFVC Television Index is a selective index to more than 12 years of television programmes broadcast on the five UK terrestrial channels.

Arts Council of England
Information on funding, sponsors, marketing, education and publications.

European Theatre Convention
Information on efforts at co-operation between venues promoting European drama plus details of the provision of professional training.

Royal National Theatre of Great Britain
Information and history of the development of the theatre complex, web sites for individual theatres in the UK , education links and details of future and past productions.

Study Web : Fine Arts : Performing Arts
Sections on acting technique, stage design, costuming, history, puppetry etc.

UK Theatre Web
Search facility available for listings and venues, job opportunities, agents etc.

WWW Virtual Library - Theatre and Drama
Comprehensive database of on-line plays ( including some in French, Italian etc. ), image collections, journal articles, resources and theatre companies.

British Film Institute
A developing site with a lot of information about the institute, including information on the BFI library.

British Film Institute Library Catalogue
Save time by checking the catalogue before you visit the library.

Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
Information on over 150,000 movies, including latest releases.

The Media and Communications Studies Site
The MCS site is a British-based gateway to Web resources useful in the academic study of media and communication.

ABYZ News Links
Portal to online news sources from around the world. Includes links to UK papers ranging from the Sun to the Socialist Worker.

African & Asian Visual Arts Archive (Aavaa)
Comprehensive slide archive of contemporary visual art by artists of African & Asian descent working in the UK since the post-war period.

BBC
The BBC homepage. Includes information on job vacancies, as well as programme links and news updates etc.

British Film Institute
A developing site with a lot of information about the institute, including information on the BFI library.

British Film Institute Library Catalogue
Save time by checking the catalogue before you visit the library.

BUFVC
The British Universities Film & Video Council promotes the production, study and use of moving image media for higher education and research. The University has an institutional subscription, so access to its two specialist databases, AVANCE and The Television Index, is possible from it's web site.

BUFVC Newsreel Database
Details of all traceable stories covered by British newsreels and cinemagazines between 1910 and 1979.

Channel 4
Channel 4 programme information.

CNN
The site of the CNN news channel. A U.S. view of events.

Guardian Style Guide
A guide to preferred grammar, spellings etc for Guardian contributors.

Hat Trick
Home page of one of the leading TV comedy producers.

Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
Information on over 150,000 movies, including latest releases.

ITC (Independent Television Commission)
Information from the ITC, includes the structure, organisation etc. Also information on jobs with the itc.

ITV
ITV programme information. Includes updates of ITV soaps.

The Media and Communications Studies Site
The MCS site is a British-based gateway to Web resources useful in the academic study of media and communication.

Newsweek
Home page of the American news magazine. Full text of some of articles

Didaskalia : Ancient Theatre Today
Greek and Roman theatre and dance as performed today, including stagecraft, theatre designs etc.

KMC : A Brief Guide to Internet Resources in Theatre & Performance Studies
A comprehensive listing of organisations and resources by topic and a section on finding primary materials. US emphasis.

Medieval Drama Links
Publications and articles, illustrations, costumes and music.

Performing Arts Linksl
Information available on individual countries or by genre. Also lists reviews, library collections in theatre, cinema or dance.

Puppetry Home Page
Puppetry in cultures worldwide, museum collections, suppliers and workshops.

Royal National Theatre of Great Britain
Information and history of the development of the theatre complex, web sites for individual theatres in the UK , education links and details of future and past productions.

Shakespeare`s Globe
A guide to the reconstructed theatre and a history of performances in both.

Study Web : Fine Arts : Performing Arts
Sections on acting technique, stage design, costuming, history, puppetry etc.

UK Theatre Web
Search facility available for listings and venues, job opportunities, agents etc.

Voice of the Shuttle : Drama, Theater & Performance Art Studies
(Part of the English Literature by Genre section) Gateway of worldwide web sites listed alphabetically.

World Lecture Hall : Theatre & Dance
Click on "browse by area" and select theatre and dance from the drop down menu
Details of university "cybercourses" plus sections on dance management, directing, playwriting and theatre history.

WWW Virtual Library - Theatre and Drama
Comprehensive database of on-line plays (including some in French, Italian etc.), image collections, journal articles, resources and theatre companies.