{"id":7318,"date":"2024-10-18T10:23:05","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T09:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/?p=7318"},"modified":"2024-10-18T12:18:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T11:18:47","slug":"new-resource-trial-mediaplus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/new-resource-trial-mediaplus\/","title":{"rendered":"New Resource Trial: MediaPlus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Library is currently running a short trial to MediaPlus, a digital media resource offered by Alexander Street Press (ProQuest). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"835\" height=\"176\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2024\/10\/ASP_StackColor_Endorsed_FINALS.png\" alt=\"Alexander Street logo\" class=\"wp-image-7320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2024\/10\/ASP_StackColor_Endorsed_FINALS.png 835w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2024\/10\/ASP_StackColor_Endorsed_FINALS-300x63.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2024\/10\/ASP_StackColor_Endorsed_FINALS-768x162.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>MediaPlus<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>consists of more than 100,000 videos, images, and sound recordings. The resource is ideal for students and researchers interested in 20th century British social, political and cultural history from a range of disciplines (particularly History, Media, and Politics). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can use both the Search and Advanced Search functions to locate relevant sources. <a href=\"https:\/\/search.alexanderstreet.com\/view\/work\/bibliographic_entity|video_work|3810096?account_id=12753&amp;usage_group_id=100211\">This video details how to make best use of the search functions in Alexander Street<\/a>. <br><br>You can also browse by Title, Subject, and Sub-collection from the MediaPlus homepage, where you can then further refine results by date, publisher, or subject.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Content is drawn from a number of sources (Sub-collections): <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Associated Press Archive (6,010 items)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Channel 4 News (6,508)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gaumont British News (2,476)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gaumont Graphic Newsreel (8,087)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Getty Moving images (8,163)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Getty Still images (11,732)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ITN (6,300)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ITV news (27,519)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Imperial War Museum \u2013 images (4,165)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Photographic Youth Music Culture Archive \u2013 PYMCA (6,421)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reuters News (3,248)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Royal Geographical Society (6,448)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Royal Mail Film Classics (66)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The North Highland College \u2013 Johnston Collection (10,037)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wellcome Library (710)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libsearch.ncl.ac.uk\/permalink\/f\/1jraif3\/NCL_ALMA61265503280002411\">You can access MediaPlus via Library Search here.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The trial access to the resource is available until 15th November 2024<\/strong>. As the purpose of a trial is provide short term institutional access to establish whether the resource is of interest for future sustained access, unfortunately we are not able to extend or repeat trials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Please note that MediaPlus content cannot be downloaded, and any embedded content or permalinks will not work after the trial ends.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are keen to hear any feedback on this resource &#8211; please contact us by commenting below or by emailing your Liaison Librarian (libliaison@newcastle.ac.uk).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Library is currently running a short trial to MediaPlus, a digital media resource offered by Alexander Street Press (ProQuest). MediaPlus&nbsp;consists of more than 100,000 videos, images, and sound recordings. The resource is ideal for students and researchers interested in 20th century British social, political and cultural history from a range of disciplines (particularly History, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/new-resource-trial-mediaplus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Resource Trial: MediaPlus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11719,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,106,97,223,120,3],"tags":[212,9,210,12,33,233],"class_list":["post-7318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-databases","category-resources","category-socsci","category-the-library","category-trial","tag-databases","tag-history","tag-media-2","tag-media","tag-politics","tag-trial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11719"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7318"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7322,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7318\/revisions\/7322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}