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Creative Industries Database List
This is a complete list of the databases most likely to be useful for Creative Industries at Napier. Follow the access links through to connect to electronic services. A few services are in print format only.
See also the Subject Focus pages to find out which ones are best for your individual subject.
Journal Articles Databases
These can help you identify useful journal articles: note the links to our helpsheets as you connect to the service.
You may still have more work to do to find the full text of the articles! See our web page on Locating Journal Articles.
ABI/INFORM Global
- business articles, mixture of full-text and indexing/abstracting service - Index/Abstracts/FT
Alternative Press Index (1995-)
- printed index only, at Craighouse
ANTE - Abstracts in new technologies and engineering
- all technical subjects - may link to full text via SFX
Art index
- print version only, Merchiston abstracts section
Architectural publications index - search the index in electronic form as part of the RIBA online catalogue
- before searching, scroll down to Search Limits and change this from ALL to ARTICLES instead
- we also have the print version in Merchiston Library, Abstracts Section
ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts
- all social science subjects - may link to full text via SFX
BHI - British Humanities Index
- all humanities subjects - may link to full text via SFX
Design and applied arts index
- may link to full text via SFX
EBSCO Psychology and Behavioural Sciences Collection
Expanded Academic ASAP
- wide range of subjects covered - contains some full text
Film literature index online
FindArticles - Arts and Entertainment
- all subjects - some full text but may not include images
IngentaConnect
- all subjects - contains some full text
ISI Web of Knowledge
- all subjects, strong on research - includes Arts and humanities citation index - may link to full text via SFX
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
- may link to full text via SFX
LISTA: Library, Information Science, and Technology Abstracts
- may link to full text via SFX
Music Index
- all types of music - print format only, at Craighouse. Napier does not have a current subscription, but we have vols for 1949-1997.
Press (2001-April 2007).
- a merger of Printing Abstracts ( 1958-2001) and World publishing monitor (1991-2001). Before that, World publishing monitor was known as Electronic publishing abstracts (1983-1990) - print format only, at Craighouse.
RILM (Répertoire international de la littérature musicale)
- mainly classical music - print format only, at Craighouse. Napier does not have a current subscription, but we have vols.1-29, 1967-1995.
Zetoc
- all subjects covered - if articles are not available locally, anything you find here can be requested from the British Library via our Document Supply service
Other Databases
Newspaper articles
- Nexis UK contains the full text of a huge range of international newspapers - but no pictures, sadly.
Market reports:
Images and film clips:
- BFI Screenonline - a website devoted to the history of British film and television
- AHDS Visual Arts: Collections
- Film and Sound Online - a set of ten collections of film and video, providing about 300 hours of material on a wide range of subjects
- SCRAN - a resource base of Scottish material culture and human history
- Films from the Home Front - a collection of unique moving images illustrating what life was like for ordinary people in Britain during the Second World War, as seen through amateur documentaries, newsreels, government films, and home movies.
- Capital Collections - a choice of images from the collections of Edinburgh City Libraries and Information Services
TV schedules
- TRILT - Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching - listings for more than 300 TV and radio channels with data from 1995 onwards
Technical data
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