LibGuides: Hyper Island Distance Learners (UK): Finding Digital Media, Newspapers & Statistics

Digital Media, Newspapers & Statistics

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 LibGuide for guidance on using sources of information.

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
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
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.
British Cartoon Archive
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The British Cartoon Archive is a library, archive and gallery dedicated to the history of British cartooning over the last two hundred years. It holds the national collection of cartoons of political and social comment published in British newspapers and magazines. The online collection contains 35,000 cartoon images.

Registration is required to create a collection of favourite cartoons which will be visible everytime you login. To use an image for 'non-commercial educational context in the UK' select Teesside University from the list of institutions and agree to the terms and conditions, you will then be prompted with a Shibboleth login screen, insert your ICT username and password.
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.
VADS
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VADS (Visual Arts Data Service) is an online resource for the visual arts.
Connected Histories
Connected Histories brings together a range of digital resources related to early modern and nineteenth century Britain with a single federated search that allows sophisticated searching of names, places and dates, as well as the ability to save, connect and share resources within a personal workspace.
John Johnson Collection
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This collection provides access to thousands of items selected from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera, offering unique insights into the changing nature of everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
National Archives
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Allows you access to The National Archives' collection of digitised public records, including both academic and family history sources.

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. 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.
PressReader
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PressReader has over 7000 newspapers and magazines from over 100 countries in 60 different languages. Issues of magazines and newspapers appear as they would do in print as soon as they are published.

For information on how to access PressReader go to: Access Instructions
Times Digital Archive
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Facsimile edition of the Times 1785-2012. 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.

Statistics

Click on the links below to see what statistics are available in your subject area: