Primary resources online
The primary resources section provides access to many important textual, video, image and data archives available to the UK learning, teaching and research community.
- Archives Hub
A national gateway to descriptions of archive collections in UK universities and colleges - ARKive
An online digital library of films, photographs and audio recordings of the world’s species - British Universities Newsreel Database
Contains 170,000 records of British newsreel and cinemagazine production and a large collection of digitised documents. Hosted by BUFVC. - Education Image Gallery
Provides access to a collection of 50,000 images drawing on the Hulton ARchive, Photodisc and Getty Images® News Service. Images are copyright-cleared for use in learning, teaching and research. Hosted by EDINA - Education Media Online
A JISC-funded set of collections of film and video available for download for use within learning, teaching and research. Hosted by EDINA
- ISI Web of Knowledge
Single point of access for UK Education to ISI Web of Science, ISI Proceedings, Journal Citation Reports and others. Access depends of individual institution subscriptions. Hosted by MIMAS - JORUM
A free online repository service for teaching and support staff in UK Education. Currently being populated by education institutions across the UK, JORUM will provide a wealth of learning and teaching materials from individual digital assets through to interoperable Learning Objects. Hosted by MIMAS - Newsfilm online
3,000 hours of television news and cinema newsreels, taken from the huge collection of the ITN/Reuters archive, is to be made available online in high quality format for teaching, learning and research. Hosted by BUFVC - Intute (formerly RDN)
Intute is a free national gateway to Internet resources for the learning, teaching and research community. The service currently links to more than 115,000 resources and is categorised by subject. - SCRAN
The SCRAN learning resource service hosts over 336,500 images, movies and sounds from museums, galleries, archives and the media, copyright cleared for educational use - UK Data Archive
The UK's largest collection of digital data in the social sciences and humanities. Provides resource discovery and support for secondary use of quantitative and qualitative data in research, teaching and learning - The Internet Movie Archive
This US-based resource offers free and mostly unrestricted online access to a wide range of digital video - The Open Video Project
The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities - TRILT - The Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching
Listings for more than 300 TV and radio channels with data from 1995 onwards
