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Creative & Cultural Industries

Most databases require an Athens username and password.

Use SFX links when full text not available.

General databases

Archival Sound Recordings (British Library Sound Archive).

Arts & Humanities Citation Index On ISI Web of Knowledge.

Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Science & Humanities On ISI Web of Knowledge.

Expanded Academic File Full text journals.

Film and Sound Online Login via UK Federation, select UWS from the list of institutions then enter Athens details when prompted.

Google Scholar If you are off campus use this link and then click on "Save Preferences" to access UWS electronic journals via Google Scholar.

Foreign Broadcast Information Service The United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence.

Independent Local Radio

Index to Theses Search for theses in UK and Ireland. On campus only.

IngentaConnect Full text journals.

ISI Web of Knowledge - Citations for books, journal articles and conference proceedings in social sciences and humanities.

Mintel Market Research Reports - Full text of market research reports on a wide variety of subjects, including finance, media and leisure.

NewsBank Online access to newspapers.

Newsfilm Online Selection of news stories and programme scripts from ITN/Reuters archives. Login via UK Federation, select UWS from the list of institutions then enter Athens details when prompted.

Project Muse Database of full text journals in the social sciences and humanities. Athens access off campus.

SAGE Journals Online Full text journals.

SCRAN A searchable archive of Scotland's history and culture.

Screen Online (British Film Institute). Access to video images, sound extracts, still photographs, time lines and essays relating to the history of British film and television. Only available at Ayr Campus.

Springerlink - Access to full text journals and books in business, economics, humanities, social sciences and law.

SocINDEX Full text social sciences database. On Ebsco.

Sport & Leisure Index from Intute.

TRILT Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching. Listings and archive of broadcast programme information.

TVTimes Project 1955-1985 Access to the listings of the London edition of the TV Times from September 1955 – March 1985.

Zetoc   Table of contents of over 20,000 research journals.

 

QUICK LINKS

Guides and online help for Creative & Cultural Industries

Find an electronic journal (A-Z list of e-journal titles)

Library Catalogue (for eBooks and stock on the shelves)

Statistics (links to sources)

Useful Internet sites: CCI

EThOS Theses from the British Library

 
ELECTRONIC BOOKS

Use the library catalogue to search all collections at once. Limit the Collection pull-down to "Electronic books".