Every subject area has unique and specialist types of information, which mean that you need to look beyond Library Search. Some types of information are accessed via specialist databases, for example newspapers, while others are available online.
Different Information Types
- BBC China FocusBBC news focusing on China.
- Box of Broadcasts This link opens in a new windowBox of Broadcasts provides access to over 2.2 million TV and radio broadcasts from over 75 channels, including most of the UK’s freeview network, all BBC TV and radio content from 2007, and several foreign language channels. This resource is not available outside the UK.
- Bridgeman Education (images) This link opens in a new windowThis database provides access to over three million images, including paintings, posters, artefacts and photographs, from galleries and collections worldwide. All images are copyright-cleared for educational use, and cover a wide range of themes. NB If accessing off-campus, click on User login>Login via Shibboleth>Ncl Uni once you are on Bridgeman.
- China Visual Arts Project ArchiveUnique archival collection from University of Westminster of some 800 posters spanning the period between the late 1950s and the early 1980s. The majority of the collection dates from the 1960s to the 1970s, making it an important resource for study of the Cultural Revolution.
- Chinese mediaLinks to Chinese TV, radio and newspapers online.
- IPTVIPTV is managed by Newcastle University Language Resource Centre, and is available across campus. It provides access to live satellite TV channels from several countries, as well as news channels, feature films and documentaries in many languages, including English, French, Italian, German, Spanish and Chinese.
- Japanese mediaLinks to Japanese TV, radio and newspapers online.
- Nexis® Uni - UK, international and business news This link opens in a new windowNexis Uni enables you to search across local and major UK and international newspapers, business and industry trade magazines, business news, company information, press agencies and magazines from 1990s to present day, in various languages.
- Archives HubSubject guide to archive collections held in UK universities and colleges.
- East Asia: British Library guide for researchersGuide to collections held at the British Library and elsewhere, relating to East Asian studies.
- Migration to New Worlds This link opens in a new windowA wide range of digitised primary source material, including letters, diaries and oral histories, covering migration from Europe and Asia to the USA, Canada, and Australasia between 1800-1924.
- Princeton University Library East Asian collectionsNearly 400 digitised items from Princeton's collections, including manuscripts, maps and albums from many eras.
- Silk Road OnlineProject to make information and images of all manuscripts, paintings, textiles and artefacts from Dunhuang and archaeological sites of the Eastern Silk Road freely available on the internet, and to encourage their use through educational and research programmes.
- SOAS Library guide to Chinese resourcesOverview of useful resources at the School of Oriental and African Studies Library and beyond.
- SOAS Library guide to Japanese resourcesOverview of useful resources at the School of Oriental and African Studies Library and beyond.
- UK Information Resources on Asia (UKIRA)Project to identify UK-based information resources relating to Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
- Larousse bilingual dictionariesFree access to bilingual dictionaries, covering French, German, Spanish, Italian and Chinese.
- Newcastle University language resource centreThis centre provides learning resources in over 50 languages and in many different formats. The web site includes an online catalogue and links to useful online resources.
- Oxford English Dictionary This link opens in a new windowThe online version of the Oxford English Dictionary
- Oxford Language Dictionaries Online This link opens in a new windowFully searchable bilingual dictionaries. We have access to French, German, Spanish, Chinese and Italian.
- Cambridge History of ChinaOnline version of this major multi-volume work.
- Cambridge History of JapanOnline version of this major multi-volume work.
- China Statistical YearbookAnnual statistics yearbook.
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