Subject Guides: Media Arts: Finding Subject Specific Information

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Through this link you will find more information about accessing Senate House's physical and online resources, as well as information about accessing libraries at other institutions.

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BoB - On Demand TV & Radio for Education
BoB is a viewing and off-air recording and media archive service which allows you to search for, watch and also record from a list of recorded channels. You can also create clips, search for programmes coming up, create playlists and share them with others.
BoB is only available in the UK.
Kanopy
Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video platform that offers films, documentaries and educational videos.
BFI screenonline
An online encyclopaedia of British film and television history, including hundreds of clips from the British Film Institute's National Archive as well as recorded interviews with TV and radio personalities. Alongside the clips themselves are contextual material such as posters and press books and information produced by experts in the field.
Introductory guides to using the range of BFI Screenonline resources
Britannica ImageQuest
Contains nearly three million images which are free to use for educational use.
BUFVC Collections Search
Search all the online resources from the British Universities Film and Video Council (BUFVC) in one place. Includes online newsreels, and historical listings on television and radio broadcasts since 1986.
This resource searches 13 BUFVC databases, which can be searched separately or as one.
EUScreen
EUscreen offers free online access to videos, stills, texts and audio from European broadcasters and audiovisual archives. Explore selected content from early 1900s until today.
Independent Local Radio archive
An archive of independent local radio programmes and associated documentation, maintained by the BUFVC.
Moving Image Gateway
A directory of over 2,000 websites about moving images and sound material. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas.
TRILT: Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching
A comprehensive listings service of television and radio broadcasts, covering over 300 UK television and radio stations since 1995, TRILT is a useful tool to identify broadcast audio-visual material to support study and teaching.
TVTip: TV Times project 1955-1985
A database of the listings in the London Edition of the TVTimes from September 1955 - March 1985. It consists of around 250,000 records in which you can search for programmes, production staff and performers.

Communication Source
A comprehensive database covering mass media, communications theory, linguistics and phonetices. It contains nearly 700 full text journals with coverage dating back to 1915. Also contains indexing and abstracting for more that 1,000 core titles.
FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Plus -International Clients
An index of journal articles published in over 345 of academic and popular film journals, with full text articles included for selected titles.In addition, the Treasures from the Film Archives database contains credits and holdings information for more than 407,000 silent-era films (features, short films, actualities and fictional works) in the collections of the major international film archives.
Finding Film reviews using FIAF (video)
Film Index International
Film Index International is a major information resource for entertainment films and personalities produced in collaboration with the British Film Institute. With a scholarly, inclusive approach to all areas of film studies - from the very first silent movies, to art house classics or the latest blockbusters - Film Index International provides truly international coverage, indexing films from over 170 countries.
JSTOR
A multi-disciplinary databases with access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
Help pages from JSTOR
Oxford Bibliographies Online: Cinema and Media Studies
An online research guide in the field of Cinema and Media Studies.
Project MUSE
Over 300 humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers. Subjects covered include cinema, cultural studies, drama, history, literature, mathematics, modern languages, philosophy, politics, religion, and sociology.Most journals available online from 1995 or 1996 onwards
PDF guide to searching Project MUSE
Video Tutorials on using Project MUSE (YouTube)

ABI Inform Global (via Senate House)
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ABI/INFORM Global contains journals, company profiles and case studies covering business, economics and government policy. You will also find trade journals and dissertations as well as the Economist in this resource.
ABI Inform Help Pages
Business Source Complete
Business Source Complete (sometimes known as Ebsco) is a key resource for all business and management students, it is also useful for anyone interested in finance, accounting or marketing. In this resource you will find many journal articles and trade magazines including Harvard Business Review and The Economist. You can also find company profiles, industry reports and country reports.
Help Pages on Business Source Complete - links on the left
Library Help Pages on Business Source Complete
Emerald Insight
Emerald contains journal articles, ebooks and case studies covering management and accounting topics. It includes case studies on emerging markets and journal articles which are not available in Business Source Complete.
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Help pages for Emerald

There are currently some access issues due to a technical fault. Please see our blog post on how to work around this issue: https://libraryblog.rhul.ac.uk/2018/03/28/technical-issue-with-some-library-resources/
Financial Times
The Financial Times is one of the world’s leading news organisations which provides a broad range of information, news and services for the global business community. Sign up for an account using your RHUL email address to access the premium subscription to the Financial Times newspaper (delayed one month).
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Nexis UK
Nexis provides access to a wide range of UK and international newspapers. It also includes a collection of in-depth company profiles and industry reports covering millions of public and private companies.

data.gov.uk
Datasets available from all central government departments and a number of other public sector bodies and local authorities.
Eurostat
Official statistical information on the EU and the euro-zone, including key indicators.
Statista
Statista provides data on over 80,000 topics covering agriculture, advertising, health, hospitality, consumer goods, and much more. The content is geared towards business and marketing statistical needs, with a focus on current (not historical) statistics.
UK National Statistics
Government statistics published by the Office for National Statistics, covering a range of subjects including business, crime, the economy, education, government, health and population.

BARB
BFI Statistics and Report
Research data and market intelligence to anyone with an interest in the UK film industry and film culture.

Euromonitor - Passport
This database contains industry and company analysis, country profiling, consumer profiling, trend monitoring, and general business reference.
(Previously known as Passport GMID)
Library Help Pages on Euromonitor - Passport
Euromonitor - Passport help pages
IBIS World
A comprehensive collection of Industry Market Research and Industry Risk Ratings for the UK, US and China.
MarketLine
Marketline gives access to market research and company analysis reports covering sectors including consumer goods, finance, food and drink and technology.
Library Help Pages on Marketline
Help and Support pages from Marketline
Nexis UK
Nexis provides access to a wide range of UK and international newspapers. It also includes a collection of in-depth company profiles and industry reports covering millions of public and private companies.

Business Source Complete
Business Source Complete (sometimes known as Ebsco) is a key resource for all business and management students, it is also useful for anyone interested in finance, accounting or marketing. In this resource you will find many journal articles and trade magazines including Harvard Business Review and The Economist. You can also find company profiles, industry reports and country reports.
Help Pages on Business Source Complete - links on the left
Library Help Pages on Business Source Complete
Euromonitor - Passport
This database contains industry and company analysis, country profiling, consumer profiling, trend monitoring, and general business reference.
(Previously known as Passport GMID)
Library Help Pages on Euromonitor - Passport
Euromonitor - Passport help pages
FAME
FAME database contains detailed financial information for 7 million public and private companies in the UK and Ireland. Information such as turnover, number of employees and share prices can be benchmarked, viewed and exported as graphs or tables.
MarketLine
Marketline gives access to market research and company analysis reports covering sectors including consumer goods, finance, food and drink and technology.
Library Help Pages on Marketline
Help and Support pages from Marketline
Nexis UK
Nexis provides access to a wide range of UK and international newspapers. It also includes a collection of in-depth company profiles and industry reports covering millions of public and private companies.

BBC Archive
Historical recordings from the BBC dating back to the 1930s. This page has been archived in 2014 and is no longer updated, but the content is available.
BBC Programmes
BBC Programmes is a permanent rolling record of everything on BBC Television and Radio. Since October 2007 this site has created a permanent, findable web presence for every programme the BBC has broadcast, with some programmes being populated as far back as 1942.
ETC Press
ETC Press, based at Carnegie Mellon University, produces open access books and ejournals on entertainment technology, game theory, and game playing.
EUScreen
EUscreen offers free online access to videos, stills, texts and audio from European broadcasters and audiovisual archives. Explore selected content from early 1900s until today.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar searches for academic books and journals, and includes 'FindIt' links to the full text of books and articles which are available from the library
Search tips for Google Scholar

General resources

BoB - On Demand TV & Radio for Education
BoB is a viewing and off-air recording and media archive service which allows you to search for, watch and also record from a list of recorded channels. You can also create clips, search for programmes coming up, create playlists and share them with others.
BoB is only available in the UK.

Financial Times
The Financial Times is one of the world’s leading news organisations which provides a broad range of information, news and services for the global business community. Sign up for an account using your RHUL email address to access the premium subscription to the Financial Times newspaper (delayed one month).
Full Text
Gale Primary Sources
A collection of historical archives (modern to present), newspapers and periodicals (17th to 19th centuries) including:
British Library Newspapers,
Daily Mail Historical Archive,
The Economist Historical Archive,
The Illustrated London News Historical Archive,
Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals,
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection,
The Times Digital Archive,
The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive
Nexis UK
Nexis provides access to a wide range of UK and international newspapers. It also includes a collection of in-depth company profiles and industry reports covering millions of public and private companies.
Regional Business News
Regional Business News provides full-text regional business publications for the United States and Canadian provinces. You can search newspapers, magazines and other resources from different news sources.

The link below will help you find Royal Holloway PhD theses, UK theses through British Library's EThOS service and theses and dissertations from other countries through ProQuest.

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Britannica Academic
The online academic edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, including articles, biographies, images, videos and a world atlas. The 'Compare Countries' tool shows a range of facts and statistics for different countries.
Oxford English Dictionary
The online version of the OED including over 500,000 definitions, together with etymological analysis and variant spellings. Traces the development of English from 1150 AD to the present.
Video tutorial on using the Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford Reference Online
Over 100 general reference works, language dictionaries and subject dictionaries covering languages, science and medicine, humanities, social sciences and business.
Full Text
Oxford Bibliographies Online
A series of online research guides in a range of subjects including American Literature, British and Irish Literature, Cinema and Media Studies, Environmental Science, Victorian Literature,Geography, Classics and Philosophy. Each guide contains a series of articles introducing key topics, and lists recommended readings about each topic.
Video User guide (YouTube)