A-Z Databases: F
List of the databases you can use to access journal articles, reports, conference papers, ebooks, newspapers, and many other resources.
F - Databases
- Faber Poetry Library This link opens in a new windowThe Faber Poetry Library contains the works of 50 poets comprising 140 volumes of poetry. The authors are all part of the Faber Poetry list and the database enjoys the active support of the publisher and the poets or their estates. The Faber list spans the first seventy years of this major publishing house, showcasing some of the most influential poets of the twentieth century.
Formerly part of Lion - Factiva This link opens in a new windowFactiva is a Dow Jones & Reuters Company news resource covering more than 14,000 international business and news publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones and Reuters newswires, and the Associated Press, as well as Reuters Fundamentals; over 500 international news wires; media programs with transcripts from BBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, etc.; investment analysis; stock exchange feeds, etc.
- FIAF (The International Federation of Film Archives) Index to Film Periodicals This link opens in a new windowcontains FIAF’s Treasures from Film Archives, a selection of reference volumes, article abstracts and some full-text journals that reflect film holdings from archives around the world. Available via Screen Studies database.
- Film and Television Literature Index with Full Text This link opens in a new window'the definitive online tool for film and television research', providing full text for 120 journals and 100 books, plus indexing for 380+ publications in film and television theory, screenwriting, production, cinematography, reviews, etc. Part of EBSCOhost
- Film Indexes Online - see under Screen Studies This link opens in a new window
- Film Index International This link opens in a new windowfrom British Film Institute this resource indexes films from over 170 countries and can be searched both by film but also by person. Available via Screen Studies database.
- First Folios Compared This link opens in a new windowTo mark the 400th anniversary of the publication of Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories & Tragedies (otherwise known as the First Folio), this website brings together dozens of digitised copies of this literary masterpiece.
- The First World War Poetry Digital Archive This link opens in a new windowfreely available online repository of over 7,000 text, image, audio, and video items for studying the First World War and the literature it inspired. Includes important primary material from major poets of the period, including Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves, Vera Brittain, and Edward Thomas
- Fontes Anglo-Saxonici This link opens in a new windowThe Register aims to identify all written sources which were incorporated, quoted, translated or adapted anywhere in English or Latin texts which were written, or are likely to have been written, in Anglo-Saxon England, including those by foreign authors.
- Foreign Office files for China, 1919-1980 This link opens in a new windowall British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan between 1919 and 1980
- Foreign Office files for Japan, 1919-1952 This link opens in a new windowaccess to formerly restricted top level discussions and correspondence from the British Embassy and consulate in Japan. Includes detailed assessments of key events, speeches, maps, and topics of special interest.
- Frankfurt and Liepzig Book Fair Catalogues This link opens in a new windowDeveloped in the 16th century, the book fair catalogues for the Spring or Easter and Autumn or Michaelmas Fairs provided the widest possible overview of the books on offer during this period. Only when other sources of information began to take their place did they cease publication in 1860. The digitisation is based on the microfilming of the book fair catalogues from 1594 onwards. To bring the various and astonishingly scattered holdings of different libraries together and create and almost complete run was a major editorial achievement. There were only a few years during the Thirty Years’ War when no catalogues are known to have appeared
- FT.com This link opens in a new windowAccess to the Financial Times newspaper and FT.com for the latest UK and international business finance, economic and political news, comment and analysis