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. After log in select the 'News' tab, top-right.
An online, full text facsimile of 200 years of The Times, detailing every complete page of every issue from 1785 to 2019. 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.
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.
The Public Catalogue Foundation (PCF) and the BBC have put online the UK's entire collection of oil paintings in public ownership.
British Council Visual Arts Collection
The British Council's Visual Arts Collection is made up of artworks by British artists bought to demonstrate the very best in contemporary British practice in all medias, from painting and sculpture to printmaking, photography, installation and new media. 8,500 works of British art can be found on the website.
The British Library has uploaded one million public domain scans from 17th-19th century books to Flickr. The images are maps, geological diagrams, illustrations, comical satire, illuminated and decorative letters, illustrations, landscapes, wall-paintings and more scanned from 65,000 volumes held by the British Library and they can be used and adapted for any purpose.
Online database of the British Museum's Collections, including more than 800,000 images.
Europeana Art introduces you to artists and artworks from across Europe. Explore over 1 million paintings, drawings, prints and other artworks from European public and private archives, galleries and museums, ranging from ancient Roman sculpture to modern design.
Getty Images is a photobank of stock images and photographs, part of whose collection is being made available for use in websites, blogs and social media platforms through their embed tool (only currently works when off-campus).
The Getty Open Content Program
The J. Paul Getty Trust makes available, without charge, all available digital images to which it holds the rights or that are in the public domain to be used for any purpose. Currently, there are more than 87,000 images from the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute available through the Open Content Program.
Google analyses associated text, not just the file names or picture credits, so it is good at finding relevant images.
Over 33,000 high-quality images available for viewing and high-res zooming capabilities, including 21,000 images available to download for personal, scholarly or commercial use.
Search millions of photographs from the LIFE magazine's photo archive, from the 1750s to today. Images include famous personalities as well as photos of historical and cultureal events.
More than 400,000 high-resolution digital images of public domain works in the Museum’s world-renowned collection may be downloaded directly from the Museum’s website for non-commercial use—including in scholarly publications in any media—without permission from the Museum and without a fee. The number of available images will increase as new digital files are added on a regular basis.
Online collection of over 8,500 artists and 51,500 works from MOMA.
The National Galleries of Scotland have made their entire catalogue of approximately 95,000 objects and over 35,000 digitised images available to view online.
The entire National Gallery Collection of over 2,300 paintings online.
The National Portrait Gallery provides free downloads of a large range of images from its collection for academic and non-commercial projects. Over 53,000 low-resolution images are available free of charge to non-commercial users and over 87,000 high-resolution images are also available free of charge for academic use.
Open F|S is the complete digitized collections of the Freer and Sackler Galleries and the Freer Study Collection. With more than 40,000 works being made available for high-resolution download you can explore the Smithsonian's museums of Asian art from anywhere in the world, whenever you like. Images can be used for all non-commercial purposes.
One of the world’s leading museums in Amsterdam has a ground-breaking new online presentation of 125,000 works in its collection.
Search over 8.6 million catalog records of museum objects, and library and archives materials. More than 1,200,000 of these records contain online images, video and sound files, electronic journals and other online resources.
Holds the national collection of British art from 1500 and of international modern art. All works can be found on this site.
The United States’ National Gallery of Art
An open access policy which provided online visitors the chance to download high resolution images of their collections which fall into the public domain: 22,988 images to date.
Here you can peruse 27,000 works and over 43,000 images from the V&A collections. These are provided free for educational use.
Visual Arts Data Service (VADS)
This is an important online resource for visual arts. It has built up a considerable portfolio of visual art collections comprising over 100,000 images. They are freely available and copyright cleared for use in teaching, learning and research.
Images on this site are freely available for download for personal, academic teaching or study use and it's great for social history, medical or scientific images.
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.
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. .
The Harvard School Law Library have created a really useful guide called Finding Public Domain & Creative Commons Images.
