Getting Started
Welcome to your Subject Guide, where you'll find tailored guidance and advice on key library resources.
Essential Resources
Current newspapers and magazines - free with your Roehampton login.
- Financial Times This link opens in a new window
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Provides articles, in-depth 'Special Reports', facsimile of the newspaper from 2005 onwards, and company and financial information.
Note: you will have to create a personal account on FT after first sign in to access the resource. - Marketing Week This link opens in a new window
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Marketing Week offers the latest marketing news, opinion, trends, jobs and challenges facing the marketing industry. Note: You will need to sign up for a personal account using your full Roehampton university email. To set up your account, click ‘register’ and fill out the form to complete your account set up.
- Nexis UK This link opens in a new window
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Worldwide news and business database. This content is unavailable in UR Library Search and can only be found here on the Nexis platform.
- PressReader This link opens in a new window
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Access thousands of current, international newspapers and magazines. You can also download the PressReader App. Note: To log in, click sign in at the top of the screen, select Library or Group, then find University of Roehampton and Sign In via Open Athens. Spotlight on PressReader blog post.
- Vogue Archive This link opens in a new window
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The Vogue Archive contains the entire run of US Vogue magazine, from 1892 to the current month, reproduced in images indexed by garment type, designer and brand names.
Newspaper and magazine archives - free with your Roehampton login.
- 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers This link opens in a new window
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A unique collection of searchable facsimiles of English newspapers, pamphlets, acts of Parliament, and other early news publications from the 1600s and 1700s. Place of publication varies from London and the English provinces, to Scotland, Ireland, Europe, America and India.
- British Library Newspapers This link opens in a new window
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The British Library’s archives of searchable facsimiles of regional and national newspapers from the 19th century.
- Chronicling America This link opens in a new window
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The US Library of Congress open access digital collection of historical American newspapers.
- Gale Primary Sources This link opens in a new window
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A cross-searchable platform of eight databases containing digital reproductions of newspapers, periodicals, books and ephemera from the 17th to 20th centuries, including archives of the Illustrated London News, the Listener, Times & Times Literary Supplement (TLS).
- Guardian and Observer (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
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Local, regional and national UK news archive from 1791 - 2003. Note: to access current issues, see Pressreader.
- Illustrated London News This link opens in a new window
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A digital archive of the world's first weekly illustrated newspaper from 1842 to 2003, providing contemporary accounts and images of significant British and world events.
- John Johnson Collection This link opens in a new window
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Archive of printed ephemera covering everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- Listener Historical Archive This link opens in a new window
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Complete, searchable digital archive of The Listener, the journal published by the BBC from 1929-1991.
- New York Times (The) with Index (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
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Content from the New York Times (1851-2015) with index (1851-1993).
- Times Digital Archive This link opens in a new window
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The Times newspaper in facsimile from 1785 - 2019.
- TLS Historical Archive This link opens in a new window
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Full text of the Times Literary Supplement from 1902-2013.
The Library's print books relating to Media and Communications can be found at the following locations ("Shelfmarks"):
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Publishing |
070.5 |
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Journalism and News Media |
070-079 |
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Journalism Ethics |
174.90704 |
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Society |
300-309 |
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Media Studies |
302.23 |
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Postmodernism and Popular Culture |
306 |
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Media Law |
343.099 |
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Advertising |
659.1 |
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Public Relations |
659.2 |
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Photography |
770-779 |
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Graphic Art and Design |
771-773 |
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Documentary Film |
791.4353 |
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Radio |
791.44 |
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Television |
791.45 |
Most essential texts, and many more, are available in eBook format and can be found on UR Library Search.
The following eBook collections are especially useful for media subjects:
- Sage Catalyst This link opens in a new window
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Unlimited access to over 700 premium social science eTextbooks, including nearly 100 titles on research methods and study skills.
- Sage Knowledge This link opens in a new window
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The premier social sciences platform for SAGE.
- Emerald Insight This link opens in a new window
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Full text access to journals and eBooks covering a variety of subject areas including accounting, finance & economics, business, management, education, health & social care, HR, marketing, public policy, tourism & hospitality and environmental management. Note: after logging in with your Roehampton credentials, you will be logged in correctly if it is not indicated on the platform.
- ACLS Humanities EBook This link opens in a new window
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Subjects: humanities and related social sciences.
Library subscriptions: free with your Roehampton login.
Search these specialist databases to find journal articles, book chapters and other academic research papers in your subject.
Most provide the full text, but sometimes just brief details (citation and abstract) of the articles. Click the Full Text Finder button to see if you can access the full text via our eJournals; if not, you can (usually) order it free via Interlibrary Loan.
- Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
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A multi-disciplinary database, offering information in most areas of academic study.
- Sage Premier This link opens in a new window
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Over 500 full text journals covering arts, social sciences (especially media studies), humanities and life sciences.
- Sage Research Methods Online This link opens in a new window
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Provides help, guidance and tools for designing, writing and reporting research projects.
- Screen Studies Collection This link opens in a new window
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A comprehensive index of current publications related to film studies, plus detailed filmographies. Content includes: International Index to Film Periodicals database (FIAF), American Film Institute (AFI Catalog) and Film Index International.
- WARC This link opens in a new window
WARC provides the latest evidence, expertise and guidance to make marketers more effective. It is good for in-depth case studies on advertising campaigns and analysis on recent trends.
Open Access resources
These are free to all on the web, but have been through rigorous academic scrutiny, so you can trust the content. For further recommended titles, you can filter the A-Z Database List by subject and type.
- Data Visualization in SocietyOpen access book by Martin Engebretsen
- Film and Media CommonsOpen access articles.
- International Journal of CommunicationOpen access academic journal covering all aspects of media and communication studies.
- Jump Cut: A review of contemporary mediaAnalysing media in its social and political context since 1974, with particular regard to class, race and gender.
- Living With DataFreely accessible studies on people’s knowledge, experiences and perceptions of data.
- MAI: Feminism and Visual CultureA free, open-access journal for feminist scholars, writers, artists and activists addressing visual culture.
- Media Studies Press Open Reader seriesAnthologies of open access articles in media studies, selected for a university audience.
- Screening the PastOpen access journal for the history of photography, film, television and multimedia.
University subscriptions: free with your Roehampton login.
- BFI Player for Higher Education This link opens in a new window
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The British Film Institute's curated streaming service for higher education, with a focus on British and European independent films. Note: after logging in with your Roehampton email address, you need to create a personal user account for access. You may watch content on personal devices or in class, but BFI Player is not licenced for public screenings.
- Kanopy This link opens in a new window
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Streams thousands of films, documentaries and training videos across a wide range of subjects. Note: Click 'Log in to Roehampton' on the left side of the screen to gain access. Please note: BBC programmes may be available via Roehampton Online Broadcasts (ROB).
- ROB (Roehampton Online Broadcasts) This link opens in a new window
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Record and stream freeview TV and radio programmes for educational use, create clips and playlists, and access the archive of recorded programmes including BBC and Shakespeare Archives. ROB is managed by AVR, for assistance contact: avr@roehampton.ac.uk.
Open Access: Free to all on the Web
Films: See the Film subject guide for a list of good sources of free online films.
- BBC Programme IndexListings of every BBC programme broadcast from 1922 onwards, plus all Radio Times content to 2009 and thousands of videos.
- BUFVC Media Legislation Reports databaseDatabase of output of legislative bodies, broadcasters and pressure groups. Includes details of Annual Reports, UK and International Legislation, Discussion Documents, Public Consultations, Research Papers, Policy Documents, Service Reviews, Surveys etc.
- In TransitionA peer-reviewed academic journal of videographic film and moving image studies.
Organisations, collections and web communities related to media and culture
- Bishopsgate InstituteLondon library, archive and lifelong learning centre with specialist collections covering activism, feminism, LGBTQ+ history, and more.
- Black Cultural ArchivesBased in Brixton, south London, the BCA's mission is to collect, preserve and celebrate the histories of people of African and Caribbean descent in the UK.
- BroadcastThe essential source for information about the British TV Industry.
- British Culture ArchiveWeb presence of the crowdsourced People’s Archive, recording British society and subcultures through documentary photography since the 1930s.
- EuropeanaDiscover inspiring cultural heritage from European museums, galleries, libraries and archives. Europeana provides access to millions of books, music, artworks and more – with sophisticated search and filter tools to help you find what you’re looking for
- The Feminist Library (London)Autonomous, community-based collection of literature and ephemera from the Women's Liberation Movement.
- MayDay RoomsBased in London, the MayDay Rooms is an archive and resource for social movements, experimental and marginal cultures and their histories.
- MediumOpen access forum for sharing ideas and expertise. Publishes writing by "Thought-leaders, journalists, experts, and individuals with unique perspective".
- VADS (Visual Arts Data Service)Over 140,000 images from over 300 art collections, free for educational use.