The following databases contain a variety of material, including journal articles, for your specific subject area. The brief descriptions beneath the titles will explain what each hold. To access, click on the title.
A streaming service for UK higher education, containing a searchable archive of over 2 million TV and radio broadcasts dating back to the 1990s. New broadcasts added daily. Record from 75+ channels, create clips, search transcripts, compile playlists and more. Not available to users outside the UK.
You will need to select log in via UK Federation, then select University of Sussex from the dropdown list. (New users will need to register their Sussex email address.)
An international research database for arts and humanities, indexing articles from over 370 scholarly journals, weekly magazines, and quality newspapers from the UK, the US, and other English-speaking countries. Updated monthly, with coverage from 1962.
Subjects: Architecture, Art, Cultural Studies, Film, Gender studies, History, Linguistics, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Religion.
Digitised archive of nearly 500 British periodicals from the 17th century to the early 21st century. Covers literature, history, politics, art, science, and social commentary, with full-text searchable facsimile images.
A magazine devoted to classical music, particularly recordings. This resource is being cancelled at the end of the year and will not be avaialble from 2025.
Provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines primarily in the humanities and social sciences. Also includes research reports over 140 policy institutes on climate change, cybersecurity, energy policy, international relations, terrorism, and various public health issues. Primary sources are drawn from libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies around the world including Global Plants, 19th Century British Pamphlets and Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa. Thematic collections focusing on emerging areas of research includes Lives of Literature, Security Studies, and Sustainability.
You can now look for Kanopy films using Library Search. The benefit of this is that it will also search across our other film collections, to make sure that you don't miss out. Simply enter your search terms and select 'Video' from the drop down list at the end of the Library Search bar.
A unique quarterly online journal that publishes in-depth interviews with conductors from all over the world and all areas of the profession. Requires an additional login to access the full text. Click here for information about logging in.
A digital edition of Richard Taruskin’s landmark study of Western classical music, from its origins to the 20th century. Includes full text, images, and musical examples, with links to Grove Music Online—a key reference resource for music research. Covers centuries of musical invention and its interaction with culture, politics and art.
Enables users to access and search multiple authoritative reference works, covering composers, genres, instruments, and musical forms, including Grove Music Online, the Encyclopedia of Popular Music, the Oxford Companion to Music and the Oxford Dictionary of Music
Provides full-text access to over 700 digitized periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issue onward. Spanning more than two centuries and 37 subject areas, it includes journals in English as well as over 150 foreign-language titles.
Archive of music journalism covering all genres of popular music; 1950s to the present day. Articles, video interviews, concert and album reviews from major magazines and newspapers.
Scopus is a multidisciplinary abstract and citation database, which provides access to academic journals, books, conference proceedings, and patents from 1788–present.
Advanced Features: citation analysis, author profiles, journal metrics; data export and analysis, search alerts.
A multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of academic journal articles, books and conference proceedings covering all subjects, dating back to 1900. Web of Science consists of multiple different databases including the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Features: citation analysis, researcher profiles, journal metrics, search alerts.
This five-volume digital collection features works from more than 4,600 classic and contemporary composers. It covers all major classical musical genres and time periods from the Middle Ages to the 21st century, and includes full, study, piano, and vocal scores.