Welcome to your Subject Guide, where you'll find tailored guidance and advice on key library resources.
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 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.
Worldwide news and business database. This content is unavailable in UR Library Search and can only be found here on the Nexis platform.
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.
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.
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.
The British Library’s archives of searchable facsimiles of regional and national newspapers from the 19th century.
The US Library of Congress open access digital collection of historical American newspapers.
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).
Local, regional and national UK news archive from 1791 - 2003. Note: to access current issues, see Pressreader.
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.
Archive of printed ephemera covering everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Complete, searchable digital archive of The Listener, the journal published by the BBC from 1929-1991.
Content from the New York Times (1851-2015) with index (1851-1993).
The Times newspaper in facsimile from 1785 - 2019.
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"):
Publishing |
070.5 |
Journalism and News Media |
070-079 |
Journalism Ethics |
174.90704 |
Society |
300-309 |
Media Studies |
302.23 |
Postmodernism and Popular Culture |
306 |
Media Law |
343.099 |
Advertising |
659.1 |
Public Relations |
659.2 |
Photography |
770-779 |
Graphic Art and Design |
771-773 |
Documentary Film |
791.4353 |
Radio |
791.44 |
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:
Unlimited access to over 700 premium social science eTextbooks, including nearly 100 titles on research methods and study skills.
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.
Subjects: humanities and related social sciences.
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.
A multi-disciplinary database, offering information in most areas of academic study.
Over 500 full text journals covering arts, social sciences (especially media studies), humanities and life sciences.
Provides help, guidance and tools for designing, writing and reporting research projects.
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 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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
Films: See the Film subject guide for a list of good sources of free online films.