LibGuides: Dance City MA: Finding Digital Media, Newspapers & Websites

Digital Media, Newspapers & Websites

Digital Media

You may need to use images, video or sound in your assignments. The databases below contain still and moving images and audio clips.

Visit the Copyright & Digitisation LibGuide for guidance on using and referencing different sources of information.

British Library Sounds
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Listen to a selection from the British Library's extensive collections of unique sound recordings, which come from all over the world and cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds.
British Museum Images
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Representing over 250 years of active collecting and curation, the British Museum Image Collection of prints and drawings (a subset of which is searchable through Connected Histories) is simply one of the most comprehensive collections of images on paper in the world.
Moving Image Gateway
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This Gateway includes 1,800 websites relating to moving image and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas
News on Screen
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A database of British cinema newsreels from 1910 to 1979. Contains 160,000 records from 21 newsreels and cinemagazines, 80,000 digitised newsreel production documents, and a wide range of information resources, including oral history recordings, film availability sources and online articles. 40,000 records link to free low-resolution downloadable copies from the British Pathe web site.
Screen Online
Screenonline is an online encyclopaedia of British film and television featuring hundreds of hours of film and television clips from the vast collections of the BFI National Archive, and several hours of recorded interviews with film and TV personalities.

Off-campus access is not possible for this database
VADS
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VADS (Visual Arts Data Service) is an online resource for the visual arts.

Flickr
Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license.
Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a global nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and reuse of creativity and knowledge.

Newspapers

The Library provides access to current print newspapers and a large collection of newspaper online archives.

See the Newspapers helpsheet for information about the Library's holdings.

Artemis Primary Sources
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Gale Artemis is a path-breaking research experience that unites Gale's globally acclaimed digital archives. Artemis Primary Sources allows researchers to uncover primary source documents in archives where they may not have thought to look, greatly enhancing their research experience. By building a seamless research environment for multiple collections, Gale is creating the largest digital humanities and social sciences collection in the world. **Please note that the holding for Teesside University cover the period 1600 – 1913**
Daily Mirror Archive
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Facsimile edition of the Daily Mirror from its first publication in 1903 to the present day. Researchers can search through the complete digital edition of the newspaper to retrieve articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos.
Historical Newspapers: Guardian/Observer
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
Lexis Library
Lexis Library provides access to full text online legal and news information services. Included is a full-text collection of several UK broadsheet, tabloid and local newspapers.
NewsBank: Access World News
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This comprehensive news collection is ideal for exploring issues and events at the local, regional, national and international level. Its diverse source types include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts and videos.
It includes 221 full-colour image edition newspapers from across the world.

Use it to explore a specific event or to compare a wide variety of viewpoints on topics such as politics, business, health, sports, cultural activities and people. Content is easily searched and sorted through an intuitive, map-based interface.
Times Digital Archive
Facsimile edition of the Times 1785-2019. Researchers can search through the complete digital edition of The Times, to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.

Websites

There is a huge amount of information available on the internet and finding useful sites can be difficult. We have listed sites here that have been recommended by your lecturers: