These are the most relevant databases for Media students:

BFI Player - an online resource which offers a unique window on Britain’s changing political, economic and social landscape in the age of film and television, containing some one thousand hours of non-fiction moving image titles, alongside eight thousand pages of related documents.

BOB (Box of Broadcasts) - a shared online off-air TV and radio recording service for UK higher and further education institutions.

BRAD - Search or browse for digital, print, radio and television media options for advertising and marketing campaigns.

International Index to Film Periodicals (FIAF) - Film literature and television literature from over 300 periodicals since 1972. Abstracts and citations from academic and popular film and cinema journals.

Other useful databases:

Nexis Global and UK news, business information and market intelligence.

Independent Radio Radio recordings from between 1973 and 1996 from the archives of: Independent Radio Sharing Archive; LBC/Independent Radio News Archive and ILR South.

Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching Search or browse current and previous UK television and radio listings.

mediastudies.press Search the mediastudies.press collection of Open Access ebooks and ejournals for the media, communication and film studies fields.

SMPTE Digital Library Search or browse the SMPTE Digital Library for current and archive access to the journal and standards of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers.

For more information about the library resources visit the visit the Media and Communication  Subject guide.

If you would like help using any of these resources you can book a tutorial or visit the Curzon Library Help Desk.