Online TV and radio recording service. You can choose and record any broadcast programme from over 65 TV and radio channels. These channels include BBC 1, BBC 2, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, BBC 4, Film 4 and radio channels including Radio 4 and lots more. The recorded programmes are then kept indefinitely and added to a growing media archive of at over 2 million programmes.
Available in the UK. If you are in a non-EU country, the licence and associated exceptions in law do not apply and you may not access BoB content, even if you are an authorised user in the UK.
On-demand media recording service for Leeds Beckett staff. Content includes recordings of recent and historic film and television broadcasts, as well as in-house content such as inaugural lectures and graduation ceremonies.
LeedsBeckett TV is available on and off campus (but not outside the UK).
PressReader has over 5000 publications from over 100 countries. Issues of magazines and newspapers appear as they would do in print. Some titles that you can access include Computer Arts, The Guardian, T3 and lots more. It covers a vast amount of subjects from Art and Design (Wallpaper magazine) to Zoology (BBC Wildlife).
As a Leeds Beckett student you can read all these publications - just sign in with your Leeds Beckett email and password. For additional features, such as adding favourite publications and setting up email alerts, register for a PressReader account by clicking the "User" icon in the top right hand corner of the screen.
Provides access to full text newspapers and allows you to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, newspaper section, or other fields. The database offers a one-stop source for current news and searchable archives.
This database contains the full text of the Financial Times, with a 30 day embargo.
This databases allows you to access the full text archive of key UK and Irish news titles such as The Guardian, and search across different news sources.
An online, full text facsimile of 200 years of The Times, detailing every complete page of every issue from 1785 to 2010. This historical newspaper archive allows researchers an unparalleled opportunity to search and view the best-known and most cited newspaper in the world online in its original published context.
Other, more specialist news sources are available, particularly for historical research.
Provides award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum—race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. It presents points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions world-wide.
Kanopy is a film streaming service that gives access to some theatrical releases, training videos and documentaries.
Guide to Britain's film and TV history.
Please note the site has not been updated since 2014 and no technical support is offered.
Historical database of UK television and radio broadcast data stretching back to 1923 and covering over 570 channels.
There are more than 2 million images from 280 collections and collections are updated monthly. Supporting teaching and research for a range of subjects including: anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art, history, fashion and costume, literature, religion, world history and more.
You can download images and image details individually. Once you have logged in using your username and password you will have to register for a free account in order to download. Register using your student email address and by registering you will be able to access saved folders and organize images into groups.
This extensive list of free image sources from around the internet may also help to broaden an image search.
Listen to a selection from the British Library’s extensive collections of unique sound recordings, which come from all over the world and cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds.
To access this resource, click on log in where it says Please log in via your home organisation, choose Leeds Beckett University from the drop down list and click on Select.
This database comprises of a CD or vinyl copy of every UK Top 40 hit since the charts began in November 1952 and also includes US Hit 100 songs. Desktop DJ has over 1 million tracks available to stream in its music library.
You'll need a special username and password to access Desktop DJ. Click the padlock icon to obtain the login details.
Note: This resource is for educational use only.
