Resources for Creative Industries

Discover is the University of Bedfordshire library's main search engine. Use Discover to search journal articles, book reviews, news, and the library catalogue simultaneously.

Art Full Text provides full text access to over 150 leading art periodicals, museum bulletins and yearbooks. The database gives bibliographic references to articles, reviews, exhibition listings and many other types of material, where the full text is not available. Subject coverage spans all aspects of art, from visual to performing arts, and ranges from archaeology to television and video.

The Arts & Humanities Citation Index is available through the Web of Science database collection. The citation index gives publication details for many academic journal titles in the creative industries. Not all articles will be available as full text.

Artists Now includes a knowledge bank with information for professional visual artists covering subjects such as exhibiting, how to make a living, professional practice guidelines and sources of support. Interactive resources in the form of artists toolkits offer help with drawing up contracts, career planning, calculating fees and developing group studios. There is also weekly updated information on job opportunities, sources of commission and forthcoming exhibitions. The archive of the monthly A-N Magazine is also included.

Communication & Mass Media Complete indexes over 600 journal titles in the field of communication and media; 370 of these are fully indexed, whilst there is selective indexing of about 230. The database provides full text articles from 240 titles.

The first time you use Box of Broadcasts you will need to register. BoB is Learning on Screen's on demand TV and radio service for education. BoB allows staff and students to record programmes from over 75 free-to-air channels, and search the archive of over 2.2 million broadcasts.

Credo Reference contains a variety of electronic encyclopaedias and reference books. You can search within individual books or across all content at once. The 'Mind Map' search tool in Credo is useful if you wish to consider related concepts and ideas.

JSTOR contains many journal articles in the field of the humanities and arts. You can browse to your subject area of interest (e.g. Browse -> By Subject -> Language & Literature), then search for articles within that subject area (e.g. 'Dracula'). JSTOR also has a number of useful tools to support literary analyses.

NewsBank contains the full text of many UK newspapers, both local and national. Try searching for recent authors or books to see how they were received when first released.

Statista is an online portal for statistics, which makes available data collected by market and opinion research institutes and data derived from the economic sector and official statistics.

Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching (TRILT) is an online listings service for UK television and radio, provided by the British Universities Film and Video Council (BUFVC). The database carries complete schedules for around 300 UK channels, including regional variations as well as Welsh, Scots Gaelic, Irish and Asian-language stations or programmes.

The University of Bedfordshire's Special Collections includes the Hockliffe Collection, which contains over a thousand British children's books dating from the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries, and the Cinderella collection, which contains books, cuttings, games, and toys all related to the classic children's story. These collections offer an opportunity to see how children's literature has developed over time in a variety of styles and genres.

WGSN is a global trend forecasting service. Full use of this resource requires University of Bedfordshire students and staff to register to create an account with WGSN. Registration should be completed with your university email address. Look out for an email from noreply@wgsn.com to complete the process. Your account can be used anywhere but must be reactivated every 90 days.