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The newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757 - 1817) represent the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media. The 700 or so bound volumes of newspapers and news pamphlets were published mostly in London, however there are also some English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers, and a few examples from the American colonies, Europe and India.
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19th Century British Library Newspapers

19th Century British Library Newspapers contains full runs of influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of the 19th century British society.
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American Chemical Society Journals

Access the complete portfolio of journals from the American Chemical Society, including journals in subjects such as biotechnology and nanotechnology.
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Architects’ Journal

Your indispensable practical resource, providing in-depth weekly news analysis, comprehensive building studies and the latest regulatory and legislative updates. Every week the magazine reports on relevant buildings that accurately reflect the state of British architecture.
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Architecture.com

Online catalogue of the Royal Institute of British Architect's British Architectural Library. It currently contains over 200,000 records from the early 1980s onwards, including indexes to journal articles, books, and audio-visual materials. The database is fully searchable by keyword, author, title, subject, and series. 15,000 records are added each year, and the database is updated daily.
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Archival Sound Recordings

Listen to and download audio files from the British Library’s Sound Archive, including interviews with artists, designers, craftspeople and photographers, and environmental soundscapes. All audio clips are copyright-cleared for educational, non-commercial use.
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Art and Architecture Complete

Art & Architecture Complete is a comprehensive bibliographic database that provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 730 academic journals, magazines and trade publications with full text for over 330 periodicals and 215 books, as well as selective coverage for over 70 publications, and an Image Collection of over 64,000 images provided by Picture Desk and others.
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Art Forum

News, opinion and articles from the world of international fine art practice.
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Atomic Learning

Watch easy-to-follow training movies in computer applications and programs.
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Atypon Link

Access to the following journals:
• Built Environment
• Journal of International Marketing
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BFI InView

Access to over 2,000 non-fiction film and television titles from the 20th century to the early 21st. Carefully selected from the vast holdings of the BFI National Archive, InView’s collections capture diverse perspectives on events, developments and debates, and are supported by informative and authoritative commentary by BFI curators and other specialists. Explore and download rarely seen government films, written documents, newsreels, TV documentaries, discussion programmes, parliamentary recordings and much more.
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BioMed Central

Access over 200 peer-reviewed journals in science, technology and medicine.
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British Journal of Photography

British Newspapers 1600-1900 is the most significant digital collection of British historic newspapers. Access: on campus only – no login required. Off campus: MyGSA

British Periodicals

British Periodicals provides access to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images.
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Building Magazine

Building’s award-winning editorial spans the entire built environment - providing readers with an unmatched weekly package covering everything from the latest news, analysis and comment to financial updates and market forecasts.
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Cambridge University Press Journals

Access the complete portfolio of journals from the Cambridge University Press, including journals in the humanities
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Ceramics Art and Perception / Ceramics Technical

Quarterly magazine on ceramic art featuring articles, color pictures on every page, functional and sculptural work, useful information on events and reviews.
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Cinefex

Cinefex is a quarterly magazine devoted to motion picture visual effects.
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COPAC

The Copac library catalogue gives free access to the merged online catalogues of major University, Specialist, and National Libraries in the UK and Ireland, including the British Library. Copac includes details of materials held in libraries throughout the UK, plus Trinity College Dublin Library in Ireland. Copac includes the catalogues of all the UK National Libraries, a wide range of major University libraries, as well as specialist collections such as the National Art Library (V&A Museum).
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CUMINCAD

CumInCAD is a cumulative index of publications about computer aided architectural design. It includes bibliographic information about over 9,600 records from journals and conferences such as ACADIA, ASCAAD, CAADRIA, eCAADe, SiGraDi, CAAD futures, DDSS and others. All papers include full abstracts. Full texts, in PDF, of some 6,800 papers are also available.
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DawsonEra

Access a growing number of e-books purchased by GSA Library, across all subject disciplines.
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Digimap

Delivers maps and map data of Great Britain to UK tertiary education. Data is available either to download to use with appropriate application software such as GIS or CAD, or as maps generated by Digimap online.
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Directory of Open Access Journals

This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages.
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Drapers Online

Drapers is your key to the UK fashion business. Every week Drapers features the finest news, trends, catwalks, top fashion jobs, exclusive sales data and insightful viewpoints. Drapers finds out what’s going on in the business and how it affects yours with the finest collection of news, views and interviews, as well as eight special trend forecasting editions.
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Edinburgh University Press Journals

Access the complete portfolio of journals from the Edinburgh University Press, including journals in the humanities.
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EThOS

Search across 250,000+ UK and Irish theses.
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Film and Sound Online

CCollections of film, video and sound material. Several hundred hours of high-quality material are available for download, either in full or as segments, and can be used freely in learning, teaching and research.
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Frieze

Frieze profiles emerging artists and highlights new currents in art practice as well as offering a fresh perspective on more established artists. Includes exhibition reviews, interviews, city reports and worldwide listings.
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Greenfile

GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
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House of Commons Parliamentary Papers

Searchable full-text database of 9.5 million pages from over 184,000 parliamentary papers. Indexing for 1801-2004, full-text for the entire 19th century, full text for 1901-1978 and indexing and full text for 2004-2006.
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ICE Virtual Library

Every ICE peer-reviewed technical paper 1836 onwards. Over 18,000 illustrated papers on civil engineering, construction, architecture and transport.
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InformaWorld

Access a number of GSA Library e-journal subscriptions from various publishers. Also includes the Taylor and Francis Geography, Planning, Urban and Environment Online Archive
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IngentaConnect

Access a number of GSA Library e-journal subscriptions from various publishers. Also includes the Brill Journals Archive.
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Institute of Physics Journal Archive

Access a number of IOP journals in areas such as modeling, mechanical engineering, nanotechnology and smart materials.
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Internet Achaeology

Internet Archaeology has been publishing on the web since 1996 and provides new avenues to present and engage with archaeological research. International in scope, all journal content is subject to rigorous peer-review. Articles make use of the huge potential of internet publication to present archaeological research in unique and exciting ways, such as full colour images, photographs, searchable data sets, visualisations and interactive mapping.
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John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera

This collection provides access to thousands of items selected from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera, offering unique insights into the changing nature of everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Categories include Nineteenth-Century Entertainment, the Booktrade, Popular Prints, Crimes, Murders and Executions, and Advertising.
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JSTOR

Search across the content of hundreds of academic journals. GSA Library subscribes to the Arts and Humanities I, II & II and Ireland Collections.
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MIT Press Journals

Access to the journals:
• African Arts
• Design Issues
• Leonardo
• October
• PAJ
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Moebel Design Interior

The international design scout for professional interior planners - selective, inspirational and independent. Analysis of the international private and contract furniture scene and the latest developments in architecture and products associated with interior design
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Newsfilm Online

View and download news clips from the Reuters/ITN Archive. Clips have been copyright-cleared for non-commercial educational use.
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Oxford University Press Journals

Access the complete portfolio of journals from the Oxford University Press, including journals in the humanities
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Periodicals Archive Online

Periodicals Archive Online is an archive of hundreds of digitised, full-image journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences over the past 200 years. Its 2.8 million articles from around the world are easily searchable, with links to full-text articles found in JSTOR.

Project MUSE

Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers, providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to a comprehensive selection of prestigious humanities and social sciences journals. MUSE's online journal collections support a diverse array of research needs at academic, public, special and school libraries worldwide. Our journals are heavily indexed and peer-reviewed, with critically acclaimed articles by the most respected scholars in their fields. MUSE is also the sole source of complete, full-text versions of titles from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies.
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PubMed Central

PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
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Radio @ BUFVC

Archives of Independent Local Radio from 1973 to 1996.
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RefWorks

RefWorks is designed to help you easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as automatically generate citations, footnotes, endnotes and bibliographies for your extended essays, dissertations and theses.
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Research Research

ResearchResearch is the world's leading publisher of news and information for the international research community. Their editorial team provides expertise and in-depth news coverage of research policy and politics, and comprehensive listings of funding opportunities and sponsors across all disciplines.
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Sage Journals Online

Access to the following journals:
• Arts and Humanities in Higher Education
• Journal of Visual Culture
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SALSER

SALSER gives information about serials held by members of the Scottish Confederation of University and Research Libraries (SCURL).
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Scientific World Journal

AAn online scientific journal, TSWJ recognises the multidisciplinary nature of science, which resists clear-cut definitions and covers subjects ranging from biomedicine to environmental sciences.
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SCRAN

Access over 300,000 high-quality images in the arts and humanities. Subjects include architecture, art and design, art history, culture, ethnology, history, and media. Use in dissertations, or simply for inspiration.
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Siobhan Davies Archive

The Siobhan Davies Archive project began in January 2007, with the aim of bringing together all of the materials and documentation associated with Davies' choreographies into a single collection. It is the first online dance archive in the UK and contains thousands of fully searchable digital records including moving image, still image, audio and text.
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SpringerLink

Access hundreds of journals in all aspects of the humanities and science.
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SUNCAT

The Serials Union Catalogue for the UK research community is a free tool to help researchers and librarians locate serials held in the UK.
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Times Higher Education

Times Higher Education is the UK’s most authoritative source of information about higher education. Designed specifically for professional people working in higher education and research, Times Higher Education was founded in 1971.
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TRILT

TRILT offers the most extensive television and radio listings database available online, covering more than 300 UK channels. Data is available 10 days before broadcast and is retained online. Includes terrestrial, cable, and satellite television (with regional variations), all national and many local radio stations.
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TV Times Index

Provides a unique searchable index to the London edition of the TVTimes, the listings magazine for ITV broadcasts, from September 1955 to March 1985. TVTiP allows users to search for programmes, production staff and performers. It contains approximately 250,000 records.
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UK PubMed Central

Connects researchers to a permanent online archive of peer-reviewed research literature – a vast collection of biomedical, life and health science journals.
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Visual Arts Data Service

VADS is the online resource for visual arts. It has provided services to the academic community for 12 years and has built up a considerable portfolio of visual art collections comprising over 100,000 images that are freely available and copyright cleared for use in learning, teaching and research in the UK.
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Wiley Online Library

Access to the following journals:
• Art History
• International Journal of Art and Design Education
• Journal of Architectural Education
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ZETOC

British Library's electronic tables of contents. Indexes over 20,000 current journals and 16,000 conference proceedings from 1993 with over 20 million records covering all fields of study.
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