Art and Design databases

Alternative Guide to Postgraduate Funding

  • The most popular postgraduate funding resource in the UK.
  • Included in the main library search.

A-N Resources

  • An online resource promoting the visual arts and supporting artists and designers in their practice.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Art & Architecture Source

  • Bibliographic and full text database of leading art, design and architecture journals from around the world since 1984.
  • More than 75% of the currently published journals in this database ARE included in the main library search.

ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM)

  • One of the major bibliographical sources of information on modern and contemporary arts dating from the late 19th century onwards.
  • This indexing database provides article citations and abstracts, not full text.

Art, Design and Architecture Collection

  • This collection covers the fields of visual and applied arts

Arts & Humanities

  • Features hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre, and Cultural Studies.
  • Full-text journals.
  • Included in the main library search.

Audio Arts

  • Audio Arts has become one of the most comprehensive aural archive of artists’ voices and sound art in the world.
  • Featuring exclusive contributions from more than 900 individual artists including Joseph Beuys, Ian Breakwell, Tracey Emin and Andy Warhol.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Berg Fashion Library

  • A unique new online portal which offers users fully cross-searchable access to an expanding range of Berg content collections.
  • Part of the Bloomsbury Fashion Central Collection.
  • Included in the main library search.

Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts

  • Covers the fields of fashion and textiles, design and illustration, photography, film and animation, architecture and interiors, marketing and advertising.
  • Provides access to over 170 books which combine visual inspiration with practical advice on idea generation, research techniques, portfolio development and more, across the main visual arts disciplines.
  • Included in the main library search.

Bloomsbury Video Library

  • Bloomsbury Video Library is home to a rich, growing range of streaming collections for students, teachers and researchers across the arts, humanities and social sciences.
  • Featuring content from filmed performances and fiction films to documentaries and instructional videos.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

British Cartoon Archive

  • Contains more than 125,000 cartoons, fully-catalogued, searchable, and available to view online.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

British Humanities Index

  • An international abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities and arts.
  • This indexing database provides article citations and abstracts, not full text.

British Library Sounds

  • Contains over 12,000 recordings from the British Library's Sound Archive of the spoken word, music, interviews and sound effects.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Business Source Ultimate

  • UK and international business, management and economics issues across a range of sectors including construction, IT, education, and health.
  • Included in the main library search.

Cision

  • Cision can help discover relevant news, trends, and conversations that impact a brand, across all media channels in real time.
  • The platform can help connect the right journalists and influencers to the story they will be most effective at promoting.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI)

  • Bibliographic database to journal articles published in over 450 international craft and design journals since 1973 and includes data on over 50,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops, and companies.

Design Week

  • Design Week is a UK Design website specialising in design news and jobs.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Fashion and Race Database

  • Research and resources aimed at addressing racism and promoting diversity in the fashion system.
  • Focuses on the under-examined voices of those marginalised within the industry.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

International Bibliography of Art (IBA)

  • IBA is the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA).
  • The database adds 18,000 records per year.
  • It gives unbroken coverage of journals that were indexed in BHA and IBA prior to 2010.
  • Included in the main library search.

John Johnson Collection

  • A digitised document collection of more than 65,000 printed items of ephemera from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
  • NOT included in the main library search.
Journals

JSTOR

  • UWE Bristol subscribes to the JSTOR multidisciplinary Arts and Sciences Collections I,II,III,V,VII, VIII and XIV.
  • A scholarly archive of over 1,000 full-text electronic journals.

Kanopy

  • Access to over 18,000 films, including major blockbusters, documentaries and the Criterion collection.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

LinkedIn Learning (previously Lynda.com)

  • Video training for a vast number of software products, IT topics, and design and business skills.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Mass Observation Online

  • The Mass Observation Online archive specialises in material about everyday life in Britain.
  • Included in the main library search.

MaterialDistrict

  • MaterialDistrict is the global network in the area of innovative materials.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Mintel

  • This database gives full-text access to market survey information produced by Mintel.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

News on Screen

  • Database of 180,000 cinemagazine and newsreel stories linked to production documents and films.
  • NOT included in the main library search.
Journals Current awareness

Nexis

  • Full text database including UK national and regional newspapers, and worldwide newspapers and magazines.
  • Includes access to the Financial Times.
  • Also includes full-text information covering companies, industries, market surveys, countries, and people.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Passport

  • A business information resource providing intelligence on industries, countries and consumers.
  • Economic data and analysis for the economies of 68 countries, covering 177 industries.
  • NOT included in the main library search.
Commentary

SAGE Research Methods

  • A web-based research methods tool created to help researchers, staff and students with their research projects.
  • SRM focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, so can be used by researchers from the social sciences, health sciences and more.
  • Included in the main library search.

Scopus

  • The largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings.
  • Fields of research include science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
  • Included in the main library search.

Stylus Trends Analysis

  • Researches and analyses emerging consumer trends and turns them into actionable insights via reports, podcasts and webinars.
  • Consumer lifestyle, product and engagement trends are categorised into spotlight, macro or design reports aimed at improving strategic thinking and creative innovation.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Subculture Archives

  • A database exploring 100 years of youth culture through the scenes, styles, and sounds that forged them. From rave, punk, rockabilly to grime.
  • NOT included in the main library search.
Journals

The Times Digital Archive

  • Access to back issues of The Times (London) newspaper online.
  • One of the most highly regarded resources for the study of 18th century history and onward.
  • Included in the main library search.

UbuWeb

  • UbuWeb is a freely accessible collection devoted to avant-garde art in a wide variety of formats - including audio, video, photography, texts, poetry and more.
  • Created by volunteers, UbuWeb curates a revisionist version of art history; one that is based on artistic production rather than on the perceived, or market-based, centre of the art world.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Visual Arts Data Service

  • An online resource for visual arts of over 100,000 images that are freely available and copyright cleared for use in teaching, learning and research in the UK.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

The Vogue Archive

  • A complete searchable archive of American Vogue, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution colour page images.
  • Every page, advertisement, cover and fold-out has been included, with rich indexing enabling you to find images by garment type, designer and brand names.
  • Included in the main library search.

Worth Global Style Network (WGSN)

  • An online service offering research, trend analysis and news to the fashion, design and style industries.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

WGSN Lifestyle & Interiors (Worth Global Style Network)

  • WGSN Lifestyle & Interiors is a product design and development tool.
  • Specialist trend intelligence to buyers, designers and retailers working in the design, lifestyle, and interiors industry.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

World Advertising Research Center (WARC)

  • This database contains information on the worldwide advertising and marketing industries.
  • Includes case studies, full text journal articles, conference papers, news, statistics and information on best practice.
  • Included in the main library search.

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