Communication, Media and Culture

Communication & Mass Media Complete is undoubtedly one of the most important databases for Communication, Media and Culture students. The database covers subjects such as advertising, broadcasting, communication, cultural studies, film, journalism, language and linguistics, mass media, radio, rhetoric and television.

Academic Search Complete - a huge multi-disciplinary database indexing some 9,300 journals, over half of whose articles have immediate full-text links.

Box of Broadcasts - an off-air recording and media archive service that stores recorded TV and Radio programmes in an archive for all users to enjoy. The archive currently offers over 45,000 TV and radio programmes covering all genres. Users can record programmes, watch programmes from the archive, create clips and compile their favourite shows into playlists and share these with others.

Business Source Complete - covers business-related material, some of which is full text.

Factiva  - international news database providing an archive of 10,000 sources from 152 countries in 22 languages. Leading national newspapers, local newspapers, trade and professional journals, the BBC Monitoring Service (transcripts of world radio broadcasts) and company financial data are all included.

WARC - a database from the World Advertising Research Center, it covers journals, news, case studies and data on advertising and marketing.

Web of Science - arts and humanities, behavioural and social sciences, natural, physical and biomedical sciences, and some engineering.  Covers material published from 1970 onwards.

Zetoc - British Library's electronic table of contents. Covers about 20,000 current journals and conference proceedings published since 1993, and is updated daily. Note that records do not have abstracts; only bibliographic details are given.

N.B. The Library's electronic databases page provides a complete list of all our databases with brief details of subject coverage and access information. You may also find it useful to look at other subject help pages for details of more subject specific databases.

Many full-text journals to which the Library subscribes are available electronically over the internet, allowing you to read articles on the screen.

The Library Catalogue gives details of e-journals we have access to, as well as all the printed journals held in the Library. Enter the journal title into the keyword or title search box and select Electronic & Printed Journals Catalogue as the collection.

The catalogue entry for an e-journal connects to the A-Z list (a complete listing of full-text e-journals available to Oxford Brookes staff and students). This shows the range of years that full text is available and the host service (or collection) that provides access to that individual journal title.

If you are looking for journal articles on a specific topic, you should use a database.

Note: most of our e-journals (and databases) require confidential passwords, enabling secure access for members of Brookes. In most cases this is the Athens security system. Some of the e-journals or databases require other confidential passwords. Your PIP page (Personal Information Portal) also provides details of the relevant passwords, through the Library Electronic Resources section, and can be accessed from off-campus. Before you start trying to access e-journals or search databases, you should log in to Athens. From off-campus we also recommend that you set up the institutional cookie on your home computer.

The vast majority of our electronic books are listed on the Library catalogue. By changing the collection to 'Electronic books catalogue' you can search solely for electronic books.

Online encyclopedias - access to multidisciplinary encyclopedias including Wikipedia, plus some on specific topics.

Oxford reference online - contains about 200 Oxford University Press reference books.

Dictionaries and thesauri - includes the Oxford English Dictionary as well as Oxford Language Dictionaries Online.

News and current affairs - contains links to the websites of all the major English broadsheet newspapers. Also links to Factiva, where you can search an extensive archive of articles from a range of UK and international newspapers, including the major tabloids.

E-books - this page gives information on other e-books you may find useful.

Some of these internet sites belong to individual bodies or associations. Others provide gateways to general philosophy related, or to more subject specific sites.

Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS)

Arts Archive

British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

BBC Arts Information

BBC Statements of Programme Policy (including Annual reports)

British Psychological Society

British Film Institute

British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC)

Department of Culture, Media and Sport (UK Government website)

EUscreen - offers free online access to videos, stills, texts and audio from European broadcasters and audiovisual archives from early 1900s until today.

Intute: Arts and Humanities - Communications, Media and Culture

Media and cultural studies arena

Pacific Region Forum on Business and Management Communication

Pseudo.com: Interactive Television on your Computer

Willings Press Guide  (free short-term subscription available for full access to this site)

Xtreme Information (advertising)

Yahoo Directory for Performing Arts

 

Communication, Media and Culture: a guide to finding information (Word document)

Communication, Media and Culture: a guide to finding journal articles (Word document)

Citing your references using the Harvard (Author-Date) system (Word document)

Information skills: getting started

Information skills: further research

EndNote: reference management software for assisting with studying, research and creating bibliographies