Communication databases
- Communication and Mass Media Complete. Articles and references from specialised journals and books, with an international geographic scope, particularly focused on the Anglo-Saxon world. Registering as a user allows you to save records, search strategies, and set up alerts.
Other resources
- Communication portal. A project of the Institute of Communication at UAB, offering information and specialised documentation on various aspects of communication.
- Dictionaries of communication and related sciences. A website created by the Communication Library, featuring dictionaries, glossaries, and encyclopaedias related to communication and associated fields.
- Communication and Mass Media Complete. Articles and references from specialised journals and books, with an international geographic scope, particularly focused on the Anglo-Saxon world. Registering as a user allows you to save records, search strategies, and set up alerts.
- Guiademediosdigital.com. A directory of Spanish media, providing information on media groups, outlets, and professionals. It includes contact details, terms of service, content, audience data, and OJD control information.
- OJD: Boletín de la Oficina de Justificación de la Difusión. A database with information on the circulation of Spanish newspapers and magazines.
Other resources
- Audience. A selection of resources and media compiled by the Communication Library, offering access to audience data for radio, television, and theatre, as well as newspaper and magazine distribution, and the music, video, and DVD sales market.
- Dictionaries of communication and related sciences. Includes dictionaries, glossaries, and encyclopaedias.
- Pew Research Center- New habits & Media. A collection of publications that analyse the current state of mass media. It allows you to search by keyword and browse by topic.
- European Journalism Center. Provides grants, conferences, and training resources for journalists. Its website, Media Landscapes, offers an analysis of the media industry across different countries in Europe.
- Reuters Institute. Publishes reports and research papers on trends in journalism and the media.
- Reveal. A website from the Centre for Investigative Reporting, featuring a large number of research reports, as well as videos and podcasts from the Reveal radio programme.
- International Federation of Journalists. An international organisation composed of journalists and federations from over 100 countries. It advocates for press freedom and the organisation of journalists. Its publications cover topics such as copyright, media concentration, journalism and human rights, trade unionism, and more.
- Reporters without borders. An international association dedicated to press freedom. It defends persecuted journalists, ensures their safety, and campaigns against censorship. It publishes an annual report on the state of press freedom in various countries.
Indexing services
- My news. Provides access to the full text of both print and digital versions of various newspapers, primarily at the national level, from 1966 onwards. It allows you to search by keyword and refine results by date, section, newspaper, and more.
- PressReader. Offers access to the current editions of thousands of newspapers and magazines from 100 countries, in their original format. Only the archives from the past three months are available. List of titles.
- Proquest News & Newspapers.Grants access to the full text of over 3,000 newspapers, news websites, and blogs from leading publishers around the world. It includes newspapers such as The New York Times, The Times, Financial Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, and more. It allows searching by keyword, geographic region, and title.
- Factiva. A database focused on current affairs and business, indexing both national and international press.
- Westlaw International for Academics.A database of US law and legislation, subscribed to by the UAB libraries. In the "News" section, you can find a comprehensive data indexing service.
- Kiosco y más. A platform providing access to El País, ABC, and Cinco Días. Files cannot be downloaded.
Press distribution
- OJD: Boletín de la Oficina de Justificación de la Difusión. A database providing information on the circulation of Spanish newspapers and magazines.
- Audience guide.A selection of resources and media compiled by the Communication Library, offering access to audience data for radio, television, and theatre, as well as newspaper and magazine distribution, and the music, video, and DVD sales market.
Directories
- El Quiosc. A compilation of newspapers, magazines, and press databases subscribed to by UAB. On this page, you can also search by date. It also includes free-access press databases, many of which contain digitised historical newspapers. Additionally, it provides information about which database service indexes each publication, a link to their digital versions, and to the UAB catalogue if the publication is physically available in the library.
Other resources
- Press. A section of the Communication Guide that includes a list of newspapers available in print at the library. It also answers other queries, such as where to find today’s newspaper, how to search by date, and how to search for news on a specific topic.
- Communication and Mass Media Complete. A database offering articles and references from specialised journals and books. It has an international geographic scope, with a particular focus on the Anglo-Saxon world. Registering as a user allows you to save records, search strategies, and set up alerts.
- Guiademediosdigital.com. A directory of Spanish media that includes information on media groups, outlets, and professionals. It provides contact details, contract terms, content, audience metrics, and OJD (Office of Justification for Distribution) control.
- Academic Video Online. A video streaming platform with nearly 90,000 videos. It includes sections such as Media studies and channels from notable sources including the British Film Institute, Filmakers Library, BBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, and 60 minutes.
- Yearbook. Published by the European Audiovisual Observatory in print or on CD-ROM, this resource contains statistics on film, television, audiovisual media, video, and new media.
- Anuario de audiencias de televisión. The primary source for television data, providing GRP (Gross Rating Point) data.
- Extreme Music. A music database that allows users to listen to music across all genres. Tracks can be downloaded for editing into educational productions for UAB courses.
- Sound library of the Universitat Jaume I. A collection of more than 76,000 digitised discs (LPs, singles, and CDs) spanning a wide range of musical styles, sourced from Cadena Ser in Castellón. Music cannot be downloaded.
Other resources
- Communication guide. Includes pages dedicated to media (with radio and television directories), communication statistics (with sections on media, audiovisuals and audiences and dissemination), companies (a dedicated section on audiovisual companies) and audience (data and insights on audiences).
- Audiovisual archives. A collection of resources related to audiovisual materials.
- Audience guide. A curated selection of resources and media for accessing audience data in areas such as: tadio, television and theatre, newspaper and magazine distribution, as well as sales market for music, video and DVD.
- Kemps Film and TV Production Services Directory. An international directory of audiovisual production services. Users can search by country, product, or company. Listings include contact details, staff information, company profiles, and, in some cases, a gallery of work.
- Observatori de la Ràdio a Catalunya. The OBS is part of the Grup de Recerca en Imatge, So i Síntesi (GRISS) at UAB, supported by all Catalan radio stations. The website offers studies and reports, including the Annual Radio Report as well as diverse research and publications.
- FórmulaTV. A Spanish website dedicated to the world of television. It features audience data and industry news.
- Extreme Music. A database offering music across all genres. Users can listen to tracks and download them for editing in educational productions within UAB courses.
Other resources
- Sound effects and tunes. Sections of the Communication Guide demonstrate how to search for these in the UAB Search Engine, the Library, and online.
- Audiovisual archives. Radio and TV archives sorted by geographical region.
- Audiovisual resources for academic use. A website with a dedicated section for music and sounds resources.
- Communication and Mass Media Complete. A database offering articles and references from specialized journals and books. It covers global geographic areas, with a notable focus on the Anglo-Saxon world. Registering as a user enables saving records, search strategies, and creating alerts.
- Guiademediosdigital.com. A directory of Spanish media, providing information about media groups, professionals, audience data, and contractual details.
- Statista. An international database featuring over one million statistics from 22,500 sources, including reports, trends, and consumer studies. The Media sector is covered.
- Yearbook. Published by the European Audiovisual Observatory, it provides statistics on film, television, audiovisual media, video, and new media, available in paper or CD-ROM.
- Anuario de audiencias de televisión. A primary source for television data, including GRP data.
Other resources
General
- Communication guide. Includes pages dedicated to companies (with a section on audiovisual companies), media (with radio and television directories) and communication statistics (with sections on media, audiovisuals and audiences and dissemination).
- Audience. A selection of resources curated by the Communication Library, focusing on audience metrics for radio, television, print distribution, and the sales market for music, video, and DVDs.
Catalan scope
- Catalan Audiovisual Council (CAC). The regulatory authority overseeing audiovisual content in Catalonia, responsible for ensuring compliance with legal content guidelines in both public and private media. Publishes annual reports on the Catalan audiovisual sector and other research studies.
- Catalan Films & TV. A database covering audiovisual productions, co-productions, professionals, companies, and festivals in Catalonia.
- Observatori de la Ràdio a Catalunya (OBS). The OBS is part of the Grup de Recerca en Imatge So i Síntesi (GRISS) at the UAB, receiving support from all Catalan radio stations. Its website offers various studies, including the annual radio report, along with additional research and publications related to the radio industry.
Spanish scope
- Cine. A website managed by the Ministry of Culture, offering a database of both Spanish and international films (features and shorts) along with audience data, box office stats, and additional information such as festival details, grants, and the Spanish Film Archive.
- National Commission on Markets and Competition. Regulates the Spain’s electronic and audiovisual communications market, among other sectors. It operates independently and publishes resolutions, agreements, and reports. Its databases allow keyword searches and sector-based filtering of agreements and reports.
European scope
- Media Landscapes. A comprehensive platform by the European Journalism Centre that provides insights into the media industries across Europe, covering press, radio, television, cinema, and the internet, as well as related organizations, regulations, and study centres.
- European Audiovisual Observatory. A public body that offers comparative insights into the audiovisual industry across Europe. It publishes reports, statistics, and analysis on distribution, exhibition, and industry trends. It also hosts databases such as Iris Merlin (legal information), Lumiere (film admissions), MAVISE (television channels), and AVMS (national transpositions of the EU Audiovisual Media Services Directive).
- Creative Europe MEDIA strand. A European Union programme that supports the audiovisual sector by offering grants for distribution, production, and other related initiatives.
International scope
- Kemps Film and TV Production Services Directory. An international database for audiovisual production services, enabling searches by country, product, or company. It provides contact details, staff information, company profiles, and in some cases, a gallery of their work.
- Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The US agency responsible for enforcing communication laws and regulations. It oversees the issuance of radio and television licenses, allocates radio frequencies, and ensures compliance with regulatory standards. Its website hosts a variety of tools, documents, and databases.
- Communication and Mass Media Complete. Articles and references from specialized journals and books. International geographic scope with special incidence in the Anglo-Saxon world. Registering as an user allows you to save records, search strategies and create alerts.
- Yearbook. Published by the European Audiovisual Observatory on paper or CD-ROM with statistics on film, television, audiovisual, video and new media.
- Extreme Music. Database that allows listening to music of all genres. The music can be downloaded to be edited into educational productions of the UAB courses.
Other resources
- Audiovisual. Web of the communication guide. It includes sections dedicated to find documentaries and films
- Catalan Films & TV. It includes databases of productions, co-productions, professionals, audiovisual companies and festivals.
- Cine. Website of the Ministry of Culture. It includes a database of films (Spanish and foreign feature and short films) with audience data (number of spectators and box-office). It also includes statistics, festivals, grants, Spanish Film Archive, etc.
- Internet Movie Database. IMDb is the most complete international database on cinema. It thoroughly catalogues all kinds of information about films, television series and documentaries: actors, director, filming locations, titles in other languages, etc. It offers many search possibilities (title, episode title, names, companies, characters, etc.)
- Filmaffinity. International film database with two versions, in Spanish and in English. You can search by title directors and actors. The results include paragraphs of reviews of some publications and user ratings.
- Dictionaries of communication and related sciences. Includes dictionaries, glossaries and encyclopedias.
- Movie Review Query Engine. Powerful database of film reviews. Focused on English spoken cinema, it also includes some films in other languages. The reviews are from the American media (and secondly from the United Kingdom) and include the general press, specialised magazines, etc.
- Kemps Film and TV Production Services Directory. International directory of audiovisual production services. It allows the search by country, product or company. From each company it gives contact information, staff, presentation and in some cases a gallery of works.
- Communication and Mass Media Complete. Articles and references from specialized journals and books. International geographic scope with special incidence in the Anglo-Saxon world. Registering as an user allows you to save records, search strategies and create alerts.
- Infoadex report on advertising investment in Spain. Available on paper and CD-ROM.
- Autocontrol. Database of advertising regulation on Spain (although it includes European and international documentation), from 1945 to the present.
- OJD: Boletín de la Oficina de Justificación de la Difusión. Database with information on circulation of Spanish newspapers and magazines.
- Statista. Statistical database that includes industry trends and reports (see Advertising & marketing)
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Other resources
- Communication guide. To find ads from a specific brand or its history. There is also a section dedicated to audience.
- Virtual advertising galleries. Page of the Communication Library with historical advertising databases such as Ad* Access.
- Dictionaries of communication and related sciences. Includes dictionaries, glossaries and encyclopedias. With a section on Advertising, marketing and public relations.
- Adforum. 200,000 ads in all types of media (but especially television) from more than 110 countries since 2000. Extensive search options (geographical, date, agency, brand, etc.). It also includes a database of awards and directories of agencies, producers, marketing services, etc.
- London International Advertising Awards (LIA). 1998-2003
- Communication and Mass Media Complete. Database of journal articles where you can find information on international brands.
Other resources
- Communication guide. To find ads from a specific brand or its history.
- Virtual advertising galleries. Page with historical advertising databases such as Ad* Access.
- Audiovisual resources for academic use. Images includes a section devoted to advertising.
- Communication and Mass Media Complete. Articles and references from specialized journals and books. International geographic scope with special incidence in the Anglo-Saxon world. Registering as an user allows you to save records, search strategies and create alerts.
- Statista. International database that includes more than one million statistics from 22,500 sources. It also includes industry reports and trends, marketing and consumer studies, dossiers, surveys and infographics.
- ABI/INFORM Complete. Full text articles in economics, accounting, human resources, companies, finance, marketing, etc. Also thesis since 1962, working papers, annual reports of American companies and a large number of diverse reports.
Other resources
- Economics databases.
- Communication Guide. Contains sections such as Companies and Data and statistics.
- Dictionaries of communication and related sciences. Includes dictionaries, glossaries and encyclopedias. It includes a section dedicated to marketing.
- Nielsen. Company that conducts market research. It publishes various reports (many of them free) about business, consumer and market trends.
- ÍnDICEs CSIC. Bibliographic database with more than 1,340,000 references of articles from scientific journals edited in Spain specialised in social sciences and humanities. [No longer updated since January 2023]
- E-LIS (E-prints in Library and Information Science). Open access digital repository on Library and Information Science. It allows simple and advanced search and gives results in full text.
- dLIST (Digital Library of Information Science and Technology. Open access repository on Information Science. It allows simple and advanced search and gives results in full text. It includes papers, articles, pre-prints, etc.
- @rchiveSIC. French digital archive that gives free access to articles and working papers in the area of documentation and communication. Allows navigation by different criteria and simple and advanced search.
- CCSD MémSIC. Thesis repository of information science, library science and documentation.
Other resources
- Archivos. Page of the Ministry of Culture of Spain with all kinds of information related to the world of archives. It includes different databases, PARES (Portal of Spanish Archives) and professional resources.
- Archival science. Section of the Communication guide.
- Dictionaries of communication. Section of the Communication guide, which includes dictionaries, glossaries and encyclopedias. One of the sections is devoted to Information science.
- Search engine of the UAB Libraries. It allows searching in an integrated way in the databases subscribed by the UAB Libraries, offering full text access.
- Web of Science. Bibliographic and bibliometric database. Contains references and author's abstracts of journal articles, conference papers and patents.
- Scopus. Bibliographic database of scientific literature. Contains references of journals, magazines, books, web resources and patents.
- Proquest Central. Set of databases of various themes. It includes topics such as marketing, communication and also press databases.
- Academic Video Online. A video streaming platform with nearly 90,000 videos. It includes sections such as Media studies and channels from notable sources including the British Film Institute, Filmakers Library, BBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, and 60 minutes.
- Statista. International database that includes more than one million statistics from 22,500 sources. It also includes industry reports and trends, marketing and consumer studies, dossiers, surveys and infographics.
- Dialnet. Either summaries or full text of Spanish journals, full text of theses from the Spanish universities and bibliographic references of books.
- Raco. Cooperative repository of Catalan scientific, cultural and erudite journals.
Other resources
- Collectors and Directories. Selection of digital repositories.
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