Accessibility Statement
Books on these subjects can be found under these numbers on the shelf.
| Broadcasting industry | 384 |
| Broadcasting technology | 621 |
| Communication studies | 302.2 |
| Cultural studies | 306 |
| Film | 791.43 |
| Filmmakers & directors | 791.4313 |
| Journalism | 070.4 |
| Media studies | 302.23 |
| Music | 780-781.69 |
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Photography/ Film & video making |
770--779.99 |
| Radio production | 791.44 |
| Sound | 789.9 |
| Television | 302.2345 |
| Television programmes | 791.457 |
| Visual culture | 306.47 |
Databases are specialist tools which you can use to find resources such as journal articles. The selection below are the databases we recommend for all Journalism students, but the library has many more. For help with searching these resources contact your Aldrich Library subject support team using the link on this page.
Interactive media streaming service which allows you to record, watch, and make clips from television and radio programmes. Due to licensing restrictions, this service is not available outside the UK.
Research and reference resource encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline.
Access to the following: Archive Journal Collections - Arts and Sciences I-XV, Business IV, Hebrew Journals, Ireland, Life Sciences and Public Health. Thematic Collections - Lives of Literature, Security Studies, Sustainability. Primary Source Collections - 19th Century British Pamphlets, World Heritage Sites: Africa, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa, Global Plants. Artstor image collections are also now on JSTOR in preparation for the retirement of the Artstor platform in August 2024.
House of Commons sessional papers from 1715 to 2005 with supplementary material back to 1688.
Newspapers can give you a snapshot of events and opinions at a given time.
Historical collections of newspapers can be particularly useful for finding contemporary responses to historical events or contemporary reviews of publications.
If you're looking for current or recent news, the best place to start is European Newsstream. You can also access UK newspapers from the news section of Lexis Library, with coverage going back approximately 20 years.
Searchable collection of full text articles from national, regional and european newspapers.
Full text access to cases, Halsbury's Laws, legal journals and UK newspapers, some from 1984.
Contains over three million pages of fully searchable, rare and unique primary sources for the historical study of sex, sexuality, and gender. The archive illuminates the experiences of LGBTQ individuals and groups of different races, ethnicities, ages, religions, political orientations and geographical locations. There is also significant coverage of feminism and women’s rights campaigns.
Research index focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, topics range from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond.
Access to subscribed journals published by Sage.
Multi-disciplinary abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings.
Access to: Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Conference Proceedings Citation Index (Science and Social Science & Humanities), Emerging Sources Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index and BIOSIS Citation Index Backfile (1969-2008).
Access to subscribed journals and ebooks published by Wiley-Blackwell.
The easiest way to search for books held in the library is to use the library catalogue. You can search by author, title or keyword. You can also use the library catalogue to place reservations on books. For more information about finding and using ebooks please see our Help with using ebooks page.
A subscription resource that covers the basics of referencing and a wide range of referencing styles.
