Film, Media and Music resources
Your Liaison Librarian: Claire Smith email: c.smith3@keele.ac.uk tel: +44 (0)1782 734016
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Library Search: Advanced Search
To search the University's e-journal collections effectively, use 'Advanced Search'. From here you can construct impactful keyword searches and filter your results to make them more manageable and more relevant. For advice and training on how to search effectively, please contact your school's Librarian.
Cambridge Core
Cambridge University Press publishes a wide range of high-quality academic content across Cambridge Core, including leading journals, research monographs, reference works and textbooks, including Cambridge Companions.
EBSCO
EBSCO contains thousands of full-text journal articles across lots of subject areas. EBSCO Video tutorials.
JSTOR
Full-text access to the archive of many important journals, including access to the JSTOR Music Collection.
Literature Online (LION) - ProQuest
A fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, prose and drama, plus biographies, bibliographies and key criticism and reference resources.
Oxford Academic Journals
A collection of more than 250 electronic journal titles from Oxford University Press with full-text access from 1996 to the latest issue for all titles.
ProQuest
Includes access to the Humanities Index, a large database for research in the Humanities. The full-text of many journal articles are available through ProQuest.
Sage Journals
A collection of over 600 full-text international peer-reviewed journals titles, dating back to 1999 for most titles.
Taylor & Francis Online
A collection of over 1500 journals from Taylor & Francis Online with full-text access from 1997 onwards for most titles.
Web of Science - Clarivate
Includes the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Conference Proceedings, access to Journal Citation Reports and Book Citation Index. For access, if you're not automatically logged in select 'Institutional sign in', search for 'UK Federation' and 'Go to institution'. Search for 'Keele University' and log in with your Keele username and password. Registration for a Web of Science profile may be required the first time you access this resource - please only register using your Keele email address as accounts registered with personal email addresses will be removed. Web of Science support page
Wiley Online Library
A collection of over 1400 journals from Wiley's Online Library with full-text access from 1997 onwards for most titles.
VLeBooks
One of our core ebook collections with many titles relevant for Film, Media and Music.
ProQuest Ebook Central
This ebook platform is another of our core ebook collections.
Naxos Music Library
Naxos is a large online music library offering over 500,000 tracks of classical music, jazz, world and folk music. The recordings in Naxos Music Library include the complete catalogues of BIS, Chandos, CPO, Haenssler, Hungaroton, Marco Polo, Naxos and selected titles of other leading independent labels. Naxos can be accessed from all computers on the Keele network. Music students will be provided with a username and password to log-in. Naxos Music Library tutorial
European Newsstream - ProQuest
Provides the searchable full-text of articles published in around 30 UK newspapers including The Times, Telegraph, Guardian and The Independent.
Nexis
A news and business service which includes around 12,000 publications, including worldwide, national and local newspapers.
The Times Digital Archive, 1785-2013
Full-text facsimile of more than 200 years of the Times, with every page of every issue from 1785 to 2013. The entire newspaper is captured with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos.
Box of Broadcasts (BoB)
Box of Broadcasts (BoB) National is a TV and radio recording service and is freely available to all staff and students at Keele. Record and catch-up on programmes from 60+ TV and radio channels that have been broadcast in the last 30 days. You will need your Keele username and password to sign-in.
British Library EThOS
The British Library ETHOS project provides electronic access to research theses from many UK universities.
Google Scholar
The most famous web search engine can search for academic journals and literature too. In Google Scholar’s settings you can also customise your results to quickly see which of them you have full-text access to through Keele Library. To get this working, before you perform your search click on Settings and type 'keele' into the Library Links search box. Tick the Keele University – view online @Keele box, click on Save Preferences and you're ready to go. When you've typed in your search, any results with ‘view-online@Keele' link next to the title provide a direct link through to the article.
Kanopy
An on-demand streaming video platform for public and academic libraries that offers films, TV shows and documentaries. For access, log in with your Keele username and password. Kanopy help page. Kanopy's Film Studies Collection. Kanopy's Media & Communications Collection. Kanopy's Music Collection. Kanopy's Experimental/Alternative Media Collection.
Keele Research Repository
A digital archive of research and enterprise output produced by Keele University staff.
Library Hub Discover
Library Hub Discover replaces Copac and SUNCAT. This catalogue gives you access to details of materials held in many UK national, academic and specialist libraries.
Reference Management Tools (RefWorks and Cite Them Right)
Access quality reference management tools provided by the Library. RefWorks allows you to save and manage all the references you use for your assignments, whether these are from books, journals, web pages or other sources, and create bibliographies. Cite Them Right helps you to reference correctly in a variety of styles, not just for standard resources such as books and journal articles, but also for resources such as statutes, patents and social networking sites. Visit our Reference management page for useful guides and help using these resources.
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The Liaison Librarian for Film, Media and Music is Claire Smith. If you’d like more in-depth help on using resources, want advice on how to search effectively, or want to further develop your information or digital literacy skills, you can contact Claire and ask for an appointment: c.smith3@keele.ac.uk.
If you’re a PhD student or researcher at Keele you can access help and support from our Research Support Librarians. Find out more on the Research Support webpage.