Recommended for: Bibliographic information RecordsAbstracts
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Description
An extensive guide to published writing on British and Irish history, including the history of British and Irish relations with the rest of the world and British and Irish domestic history. Includes over 594,000 records, including books, articles in journals and articles within collective volumes. Updated three times a year.
Full text availability
Indexing and abstracting service. Links out to full text where available.
A million pages of documents drawn from the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) and complementary materials from UK libraries and archives.
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Description
WDA: BAAS includes reports; fieldnotes, correspondence and diaries; grey literature; photographs, artwork and illustrations; journal manuscripts; photographs; proceedings, lectures, and ephemera.
The collection spans a wide variety of interdisciplinary research areas, and supports educational needs in a broad range of subjects and disciplines including the History of Science, Life Sciences; Physical Sciences; Mathematics; Engineering; Area Studies; Colonial, Post-Colonial & Decolonisation Studies; Development Studies; Environmental Degradation; Historical Sociology; Geology; International Relations; Trade and Commerce, and Law and Policy relating to Science.
Recommended for: Film and documentaries
World cinema, documentaries and independent film. Playback of films works with Google Chrome, Edge and Mozilla Firefox browsers. Not compatible with IE browser.
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Description
Also includes some instructional films and lessons.
Use the More option to create clips, add to a playlist and view transcripts.
No option to download, streaming service only. BBC videos are not included in this resource.
Full text availability
Some content, not available in the UK has the note Sorry this video is not available in your territory.
Recommended for: Film Cinema A film streaming service of world cinema. You need to register first via the links below.
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Available to students and instructors involved in a post-secondary film program. Sign up with your Manchester Met email address at either MUBI Film Student or MUBI Film Teacher. Once you have registered, you will receive a confirmation email which confirms your access and asks you to set up a password. Next time you want to access the resource, select Log in and use your Manchester Met email and password you created at registration.
Description
A film streaming service of world cinema. There are always 30 titles available, hand-picked by the team at MUBI
Recommended for: Journal articles
French-language scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences
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Open access
Description
Persée is a digital library of 277 open access, mostly French-language scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences, established by the Ministry of National Education of France. The website launched in 2005 and is maintained by the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, French National Centre for Scientific Research, and University of Lyon.
Recommended for: eBooks
Two bespoke eBook packages in the subject areas of Sport and Linguistics
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Description
Two bespoke eBook packages are available to Manchester Metropolitan in the disciplines of Sport and Linguistics.These authoritative guides to theory and method are fully searchable and contain overviews of both classic and current research. Content is available in HTML and PDF format.
Recommended for: Journal articles Primary sources Women’s interest magazines from the late 19th Century - 2005
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Description
Backfiles of leading women’s interest magazines from the late 19th Century through to 2005. Useful for research in history, social history, economics & marketing, fashion, politics, gender studies and media & popular culture.
Full text availability
Manchester Met users have access to Women's Magazine I. Articles are full text.
