The following databases are generally the most useful for Arts & Creative Industries. See also the lists under individual subject tabs.
Comprises full-text business periodicals and news sources from ABI/INFORM Global, Dateline, and Trade & Industry.
ProQuest’s privacy policy
An online archive of television and radio broadcasts of Shakespeare’s works, featuring over 900 programmes from the BBC’s archive. Includes plays, poems and sonnets, renowned stage and screen productions, documentaries, critical analyses, and comedies. Freely available to students and staff as part of the University's ERA licence.
Please register using your university email address and a unique password.
ERA's privacy policy
The definitive guide to Britain's film and TV history.
Please note that BFI Screenonline is only for educational purposes and for use within the UK.
BFI's privacy policy
BoB (Box of Broadcasts) National is an innovative shared online off-air TV and radio recording service for UK higher and further education institutions. It contains over a million items, including an archive of all BBC TV and radio content dating from 2007.
BoB enables all staff and students in subscribing institutions to choose and record any scheduled broadcast programme from 60+ TV and radio channels. You can also edit programmes into clips, create playlists, embed clips into Moodle, share items via social media and generate reference citations.
Please note that our BoB licence is for educational purposes only, and only for use within the UK.
BUFVC’s privacy policy
British Standards Online, is the most current site for all BSI publications. Updated daily, the site includes over 38,500 current, draft and historic British Standards, more than 16,000 of which are BSI adopted European and International standards.
To download British Standards PDFs you need to use the FileOpen plug-in.
If you are using your own device, see Downloading British Standards PDFs for advice.
If you are using a managed University laptop, please use Adobe Acrobat which includes the FileOpen plugin.
BSOL’s privacy policy
Top tips for using BSOL: