Academic Achievement Team
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- New to university life
- Researching your topic area
- Evaluating your research
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- Preparing to take exams or give a presentation
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The Academic Achievement Team is committed to helping students realise their academic potential and move towards becoming independent learners.
The team consists of five members of staff including the Team Leader.
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University of Roehampton
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Getting Started
Not sure where to start?
Have a look at our How To... page for our three part tutorial on getting started with your Library research. The Starting Your Research in MCL tutorial (Part 2) is tailored to School of Arts subjects including media.
You will also find guidance on searching Library databases, from some of our database providers.
Essential Resources
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.
Research databases:
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.
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Communication and Mass MediaFull-text journal articles in media studies, communication, and other closely-related fields.
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PEP-WebA digital archive of many of the major works of psychoanalysis, including the complete works of Sigmund Freud and complete versions of other classic texts.
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Sage PremierOver 500 full text journals covering arts, social sciences (especially media studies), humanities and life sciences.
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Sage Research Methods OnlineProvides help, guidance and tools for designing, writing and reporting research projects.
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Screen Studies CollectionA 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.
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WARCWARC provides the latest evidence, expertise and guidance to make marketers more effective.
E-book collections
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ACLS Humanities E-BookContains over 5,400 ebooks in humanities and related social sciences.
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Oxford Handbooks OnlineThe Oxford Handbooks series brings together the world’s leading scholars to write articles that survey the current state of scholarship in their field. The articles review the key issues, reveal original arguments and concepts, and set the agenda for new research.
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SAGE KnowledgeThe premier social sciences platform for SAGE.
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VLEbooksA large collection of eBooks in all subject areas.
Open Access articles
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, see the Journalism, Media and Culture section on our Open Access Guide for the School of Arts.
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Data Visualization in SocietyOpen access book by Martin Engebretsen
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Film and Media CommonsOpen access articles.
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International Journal of CommunicationOpen access academic journal covering all aspects of media and communication studies.
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Jump Cut: A review of contemporary mediaAnalysing media in its social and political context since 1974, with particular regard to class, race and gender.
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Living With DataFreely accessible studies on people’s knowledge, experiences and perceptions of data.
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MAI: Feminism and Visual CultureA free, open-access journal for feminist scholars, writers, artists and activists addressing visual culture.
Current newspapers and magazines - free with your Roehampton login.
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Nexis UKWorldwide news and business database.
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PressReaderOnline access to a vast range of current newspapers and magazines, with over 7,000 titles, from 120+ countries in 60+ languages. To log in while off campus, sign in via Open Athens (select Library or Group, University of Roehampton and then Open Athens). You can also download the PressReader App.
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Vogue ArchiveThe 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.
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17th-18th Century Burney Collection NewspapersA 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.
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British Library NewspapersThe British Library’s archives of searchable facsimiles of regional and national newspapers from the 19th century.
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Gale Primary SourcesA cross-searchable platform of eight databases containing searchable facsimile reproductions of newspapers, periodicals, books and ephemera from the 17th to 20th centuries, including digital archives of the Illustrated London News, the Listener, Times & Times Literary Supplement (TLS).
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Guardian (The) and The Observer (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)Historical local, regional and national UK news from 1791 - 2003.
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Illustrated London NewsA 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.
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John Johnson CollectionArchive of printed ephemera covering everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Listener Historical ArchiveComplete, searchable digital archive of The Listener, the journal published by the BBC from 1929-1991.
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New York Times (The) with Index (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)Content from the New York Times (1851-2015) with index (1851-1993).
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Times Digital ArchiveThe Times newspaper in facsimile from 1785 - 2014.
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TLS Historical ArchiveFull text of the Times Literary Supplement from 1902-2013.
University subscriptions: free with your Roehampton login.
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KANOPYStreams thousands of films, documentaries and training videos across a wide range of subjects. Many films have captions, transcripts or subtitles and are compatible with technologies for visual impairment, such as JAWS. Please note, we do not have access to BBC productions via this service but BBC programmes may be available via Rob Roehampton.
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ROB RoehamptonA streaming and recording service that allows students and staff to record Freeview TV and radio programmes, as well as create clips and playlists. Users can access the growing archive of all recorded programmes, plus the BBC Digital and Shakespeare Archives.
Open Access: Free to all on the Web
Films: See the Film subject guide for a list of good sources of free online films.
Organisations, collections and web communities related to media and culture
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Bishopsgate InstituteLondon library, archive and lifelong learning centre with specialist collections covering activism, feminism, LGBTQ+ history, and more.
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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.
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BroadcastThe essential source for information about the British TV Industry.
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British Culture ArchiveWeb presence of the crowdsourced People’s Archive, documenting British society and subcultures through documentary photography since the 1930s.
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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
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The Feminist Library (London)Autonomous, community-based collection of literature and ephemera from the Women's Liberation Movement.
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MayDay RoomsBased in London, the MayDay Rooms is an archive and resource for social movements, experimental and marginal cultures and their histories.
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MediumOpen access forum for sharing ideas and expertise. Publishes writing by "Thought-leaders, journalists, experts, and individuals with unique perspective".
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VADS (Visual Arts Data Service)Over 140,000 images from over 300 art collections, free for educational use.
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