Interactive Technologies

This page will help you get more out of your Library resources for your assignments, projects and dissertations in Digital Media

Research independently

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Searching beyond the basics

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This section lists resources for specific purposes.

 

• Journal databases

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Find journal and magazine articles. These include up-to-date publications.

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

Full-text articles and conference papers published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Useful for topics such as computer games, artificial intelligence, entertainment technology.

• Broadcast 

Broadcast is the leading title for the broadcast industry. With up-to-the minute industry news, unrivalled analysis and commentary, insider industry information and business critical data. Broadcast provides the insight to keep you at the forefront of the industry

Additional access instructions:

In order to access Broadcast’s content, please follow the following steps:

1. Visit: www.broadcastnow.co.uk

2. Register your email address at the top right hand corner (or go directly to https://account.broadcastnow.co.uk/register)

3. Input the correct details including your university email address to allow your Broadcast Digital access

4. Once registered, you will have full digital access to Broadcast. These services include:

• Full access to stories on Broadcast’s website

• Choice of customisable newsletters (breaking news, weekly roundups, ratings, greenlit programmes + more)

• Access to our Programme Index

• Access to our Mobile App (available on App Store and Android)

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

A key source for tracking down articles on a broad range of journalism and media topics.

Engineering Village consists of three bibliographic databases, GEOBASE, GeoRef and Compendex. Compendex is the most comprehensive bibliographic database of scientific and technical engineering and computing research available.

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

Helps you to find out what articles have been published in journals related to these subjects. Often you can link to the full text of the article too.

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

Full text of technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science and electronics.

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

ScienceDirect's extensive and unique full text database covers authoritative titles from the core scientific literature, published by Elsevier. More than 2,500 journals and more than nine million full-text articles are available in ScienceDirect providing access to the physical sciences and engineering life sciences. This resource is also available through the Discovery service. A Science Direct Advanced Search guide video is available.

 

• Journal archives

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• Specialist sources

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• Current newspapers

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• Statistics and data

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• Audio and video collections

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Your Subject Team

 Greta Friggens

Faculty Librarian

email greta.friggens@port.ac.uk