The University of Sunderland recently began a subscription to British History Online which is a collection of nearly 1300 volumes of primary and secondary content relating to British and Irish history, and histories of...
The Library subscribes to the British Newspapers 1600-1900 collection which gives you access to thousands of scanned newspapers from three different archival collections: British Library Newspapers Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century...
How many times have you clicked on a link or reference, only to get the message that the webpage no longer exists? This phenomenon, which is called ‘link rot‘ or ‘content drift‘ can be...
You might need to use market research for an essay or assignment, to prepare for an interview, or later in your career to prepare a social media campaign or to expand a business into...
After doing most everything – socializing, lectures, essays, projects, entertainment – on the screen, could your eyes use a break? I’m going to suggest two methods for listening to your academic reading with a...
There are many reasons you might need to do research in a newspaper archive. You might be interested in how an event was reported in London vs Glasgow vs New York. You might be...
Whether or not you’re studying the BA Social Media Management course, you may well be interested in how to conduct research on social media. If so, Luke Sloan’s 2017 “SAGE handbook of social media...
A black box will get you nowhere. One of these books though… pic.twitter.com/aCArbcqvcJ — Kate Ryan (@MsKateRyan) June 2, 2020 The recent killing of George Floyd by police in the United States and...
Journalism and Media Studies students might be interested in reading the new 3rd edition of the Verification Handbook For Disinformation And Media Manipulation, published by the European Journalism Centre. This handbook uses contemporary examples...
Your library has just purchased a collection of over 200 ebooks from the BFI to support Film Studies. Some of them are recently published, such as Sue Thornham’s 2019 Spaces of women’s cinema: space,...
We have heard a few students and academics say that you’re unable to access JStor from off campus. We are looking into this as a matter of urgency. Strangely, some staff members have no...
From 1 March 2020, you will be able to search across over 600 newspaper titles and news broadcast outlets at the same time by using Newsstream via your library’s subscriptions. Newsstream will be replacing...
in 2019, students told us they wanted to see more books in the library on racial representation on TV and film. This topic is one that we library staff want to see more resources...
We in the library are big fans of reference management software, as it takes a lot of the admin and headache out of managing your reading and getting your references and bibliographies just right....
Last year, students told us they wanted more books on investigative journalism. One investigative journalism book we’ve recently ordered is the Pulitzer Prize winning “She said: breaking the sexual harassment story that helped ignite...