Media & Culture

Support for Media & Culture

• Liaison Librarian: Raewyn Riach (Mon-Wed)
• Email (preferred) : raewyn.riach@uws.ac.uk 
• Tel: +44 (0)1292 886 262 (based at Ayr Campus)

Contact us if you would like advice on:

• finding information for your assignments
• choosing keywords and setting limits
• choosing resources to search
• assessing credibility of sources
• compiling a search strategy for a literature review
• reference management

Resources

British Library Sounds: unique sound recordings from all over the world, cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds [link broken?]

Cambridge Core: useful resources for Commercial Music and Performance Studies

ClickView: access to TV programs, films and other recordings from free to air TV

Drama Online: full-text of classic and contemporary playtexts plus live performances, audio plays, theory and practice

GALE InfoTrac Newsstand - full-text newspaper resource that provides access to more than 2,300 major world newspapers, and includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts. 

Independent Radio: archived programmes from 1973-1996

Ingenta Connect: full access to journals in all Media and Culture subjects including Art, Film, Commercial Music and Musical Theatre

Mintel Market Research Reports: market research reports covering a range of topics including music and media

SAGE Journals Online: full-text journal articles in the arts and social sciences

SCRAN: searchable archive of Scotland's history and culture

Screen Online: video clips, sound extracts, time lines and essays covering the history of British film and television (from the British Film Institute) 

SocINDEX: contains resources for visual arts topics as well as broad range of arts generally

Statista - a wide variety of statistics, industry data and analysis from the UK, Europe and around the world. Enhance your presentations with the downloadable tables, charts and infographics

Taylor & Francis Journals: full-text access to a wide number of journals and e-books in the arts and social sciences

UK Data Service - UK survey data including census data between 1971-2011

Web of Science: journal article and e-book citation indexing service that also provides full text links to other databases

Wiley Online Library: full-text articles covering social science and the arts (including broadcast production) Film clips, sound recordings & images

Zetoc: Tables of contents for research journals (not full-text)